Vast Data Raises $1B at $30B, NVIDIA Backs AI Storage
Vast Data closes a $1B Series F at $30B valuation - triple its 2023 price - with NVIDIA, Drive Capital, and Access Industries backing its push to own the data layer for AI infrastructure.
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Google Virgo Network Ends the Datacenter Scaling Tax
Google's Virgo Network connects 134K TPU chips at 47 petabits per second using a flat two-layer topology that removes the bandwidth degradation cluster operators have engineered around for years.
Inside DeepSeek V4's CANN Stack - Three Delays Explained
DeepSeek V4 has slipped three times since February. Jensen Huang called it a horrible outcome for America. Here is what is actually hard about running a trillion-parameter model on Huawei's CANN framework.
Biohacker Sequences Own Genome With Claude-Written Panel
Seth Showes' viral blog post describes sequencing his whole genome on an Oxford Nanopore MinION in his kitchen over 72 hours, with Claude generating the BED file that targeted his autoimmune-risk genes. The kit costs $3,200. The AI's role is more interesting than either number.
Claude Code Ships /ultrareview: Cloud Bug-Hunting Fleet
Anthropic's new /ultrareview slash command runs a fleet of reviewer agents in a cloud sandbox, bills $5 to $20 per run as extra usage, and gives Pro/Max three free tries through May 5. Team and Enterprise pay from day one.
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter: 96% F1 PII Masker
OpenAI released Privacy Filter today, a 1.5B MoE with 50M active parameters that tags eight categories of PII in text. Apache 2.0, 128K context, runs in a browser via WebGPU.
Alibaba's Qwen3.6 Coder: 73.4 SWE-bench, 22GB VRAM
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B lands with 73.4 on SWE-bench Verified and Apache 2.0 weights, all from 3 billion active parameters routed through a 256-expert MoE. Fits on a single consumer GPU.
Google Sunsets Vertex AI, Launches Agent Control Plane
Google replaced Vertex AI with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026 - a full-stack control plane that assigns every agent a cryptographic ID and routes all tool calls through a central policy gateway.
Firefox 150: Claude Found 271 Bugs, 3 Got Credits
Mozilla's blog says Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 vulnerabilities patched in Firefox 150. The security advisory lists 36 CVEs, and only three of them credit Anthropic. The gap is the whole story.
Discord Group Slipped Into Claude Mythos on Day One
A private Discord group has been quietly using Anthropic's most restricted AI model since the hour it shipped. They got in with a stolen contractor badge and a URL guessed from the Mercor breach.
OpenAI Signs Seven Giants to Push Codex Enterprise
OpenAI launches Codex Transformation Partners with Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, TCS, and others, and embeds its own engineers at client sites via Codex Labs as weekly users hit 4 million.
Thinking Machines Picks Google Cloud for First GB300 Deal
Mira Murati's AI lab signs a single-digit-billion deal with Google Cloud for GB300 chip access, its first cloud provider commitment, as frontier labs race to lock in next-gen compute.
