llm-d Joins CNCF - Kubernetes Gets a Native LLM Inference Stack
IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d to the CNCF at KubeCon EU, giving Kubernetes a production-grade distributed LLM inference framework built on vLLM.
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Starcloud Raises $170M to Put AI Compute in Orbit
The 15-person startup that launched an H100 GPU into space last November just became the fastest Y Combinator company ever to reach unicorn status.
OpenAI Drops Sora to Chase Enterprise Revenue
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app and killing a $1B Disney deal as it pivots aggressively toward enterprise clients ahead of a public listing.
Yahoo Uses Anthropic Claude to Challenge Google in Search
Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.
GitHub Copilot Is Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests
GitHub Copilot inserts promotional tips for itself and Raycast into PR descriptions, with over 11,000 affected pull requests found across GitHub and GitLab.
Transformers.js v4 Ships WebGPU Runtime for Browser ML
HuggingFace's Transformers.js v4 rewrites its WebGPU runtime in C++, supports 200+ architectures, and delivers up to 4x faster inference in browsers and server-side JS runtimes.
Physical AI's Money Moment - $11B and Counting
Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, doubling in four months, as investors pour capital into AI software designed to run robots in the real world.
Mistral Borrows $830M to Build a Sovereign GPU Farm
Mistral AI secures $830M in debt financing from seven banks to build a 13,800-GPU Nvidia GB300 cluster near Paris, targeting 200MW of European compute by 2027.
Gemini Flash Live Edges GPT-4 Realtime in Voice AI Race
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live beats GPT-4 Realtime 1.5 on Scale AI's Audio MultiChallenge and takes Search Live to 200+ countries - but it doesn't lead every benchmark.
NVIDIA and Emerald AI Turn Data Centers Into Grid Assets
NVIDIA's DSX Flex library and Emerald AI's Conductor platform let AI factories ramp GPU power up or down in seconds, unlocking faster grid connections and up to 100GW of new U.S. capacity.
Shopify Activates AI Storefronts for Millions of Merchants
Shopify activated Agentic Storefronts by default on March 24, making products from millions of merchants discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's AI channels.
Meta SAM 3.1 - 7x Faster Multi-Object Video Tracking
Meta releases SAM 3.1 with Object Multiplex, processing all tracked objects in one shared pass for 7x faster inference at 128 objects and improvements on 6 of 7 VOS benchmarks.
