Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.
NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.
Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, commits 2GW of Trainium capacity, and becomes the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier - reshaping how enterprises deploy AI agents on AWS.
A developer cracked Apple's undocumented ANE private APIs, measured its real throughput at 19 TFLOPS FP16 (not the marketed 38 TOPS), and trained a 109M-parameter transformer on hardware Apple designed exclusively for inference.
Alibaba completes the Qwen 3.5 lineup with four small models - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B - all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B outperforms last-gen Qwen3-30B and beats GPT-5-Nano on vision benchmarks.
Two pull requests in OpenAI's public Codex GitHub repo referenced GPT-5.4 before being scrubbed - one adding full-resolution vision support, the other a fast mode toggle. Seven force pushes and a deleted employee screenshot confirm this was not intentional.
Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at MWC Barcelona - 8,192 NPUs delivering 8 ExaFLOPS - marking its first overseas showcase of the AI supercomputer that directly targets Nvidia's cluster dominance.
Anthropic's Claude experienced elevated errors across claude.ai, Claude Code, and authentication starting at 11:49 UTC, while AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain went offline after objects struck a facility and power failures cascaded across the region.
An autonomous agent powered by Claude Opus 4.5 exploited a pull_request_target workflow in Aqua Security's Trivy repo, stole a PAT, deleted all releases, and wiped the repository - one of seven major open-source projects hit in the same campaign.
Apple plans to unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026, a modernized framework replacing Core ML that opens the door to third-party AI models and MCP integration across its entire ecosystem.
Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.
Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.
