Meta's KernelEvolve Automates Kernel Tuning in Production
Meta's KernelEvolve AI agent autonomously generates and optimizes hardware kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, and MTIA chips, delivering over 60% inference gains in production.
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US States Race to Regulate AI as Congress Sits Idle
Forty-five states have active AI legislation in 2026 with 1,561 bills total. Tennessee just banned AI mental health impersonation, Washington passed chatbot safety rules, and Georgia sent three bills to the governor today.
Microsoft's Own ToS Labels Copilot Entertainment-Only
Microsoft's Copilot terms call the product 'for entertainment only' - language that sat unnoticed since October 2025 while the company charges enterprise customers up to $30 per user per month.
AutoAgent Builds Its Own Harness, Tops Two Benchmarks
Kevin Gu's MIT-licensed AutoAgent lets a meta-agent engineer and hill-climb its own agent harness overnight, claiming the top GPT-5 slot on TerminalBench and first place on SpreadsheetBench.
Netflix VOID Erases Video Objects and Rewrites Physics
Netflix open-sources VOID, a video inpainting model that removes objects while simulating the physical effects they left behind - available under Apache 2.0 with a HuggingFace demo.
OpenAI Cracks at the Top as $852B IPO Looms
Three OpenAI executives shift roles simultaneously days after closing a $122 billion round, raising questions about leadership continuity before an expected 2026 IPO.
Frontier AI Models Sabotage Shutdown to Save Peers
A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.
OpenAI Buys TBPN in Its First Media Acquisition
OpenAI pays low hundreds of millions for TBPN, an 11-person tech talk show with 70,000 daily viewers - placing it under the company's chief political operative ahead of its IPO.
Microsoft Launches Three AI Models to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft's MAI division releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 - beating OpenAI and Google on key benchmarks while signaling a strategic break from exclusive reliance on its OpenAI partnership.
Anthropic Pays $400M for AI Drug Discovery Startup
Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup with fewer than ten employees, in a $400M all-stock deal to push into pharmaceutical AI.
Project Apex: SpaceX Files for Record $1.75T IPO
SpaceX filed a confidential S-1 targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raised - the largest IPO in history, built on Starlink revenue and the xAI merger.
Cursor 3 Rebuilds the IDE Around Agents
Cursor's ground-up IDE rebuild ships parallel agent orchestration, Design Mode for frontend work, and cloud-to-local session handoff - all in one unified workspace.
