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New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.
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New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.

Kleiner Perkins closes a $3.5B dual fund - its largest raise in the current era - betting on Anthropic, Harvey, and a 2026 IPO window.

The LiteLLM supply chain attack originated from Trivy - the security scanner in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. TeamPCP compromised Trivy, stole the PyPI publishing token, and uploaded backdoored packages directly.

Google Research's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value cache by 6x and delivers 8x speedup on H100 GPUs with zero accuracy loss - no fine-tuning required.

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora six months after launch, killing a $1 billion Disney deal that was supposed to anchor the product's future.

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.

Ai2's MolmoWeb is a fully open-source web agent that navigates browsers by screenshot alone, beating GPT-4o-based agents at the 8B scale with weights, training data, and code all released under Apache 2.0.

LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 contain a credential-stealing payload that exfiltrates SSH keys, cloud credentials, and crypto wallets to a lookalike domain. The package has 97 million monthly downloads.

Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.

A new USCC report finds Chinese open-source models now dominate US AI startup stacks, with Qwen surpassing Llama in global downloads and Chinese models taking 41% of all Hugging Face downloads.