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May 2026: Together AI adds Llama 4 and DeepSeek fine-tuning, Fireworks raised deployment prices $1/hr, and H100 rentals fell to under $2.40/hr.

Under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial, Musk said xAI 'partly' distilled OpenAI's models to train Grok - the same practice US labs have spent months calling theft when Chinese firms do it.

The Cerebras WSE-3 is the largest chip ever built - a TSMC 5nm wafer with 900,000 AI cores, 44GB SRAM, and 21 PB/s bandwidth. Now powering a $20B OpenAI deal and Amazon Bedrock deployments.

A hands-on comparison of the top AI-powered corporate training and L&D platforms in 2026, with verified pricing, feature breakdowns, and honest assessments.

Three new papers on agent prompt injection attack rates, MIT's broad-based AI automation finding, and a silent normalization-optimizer coupling failure in LLM training.

Fine-tuning trains a pre-built AI model on your own data so it learns your specific task, tone, or domain - here is how it works, what it costs, and when to use it.

Anthropic launched the Claude Certified Architect exam and invested $100M in its Partner Network - free for the first 5,000 partner employees, $99 after. Accenture is training 30,000 people.

Mistral's new Forge platform lets enterprises train frontier-grade AI models entirely on proprietary data, without sending any of it to a third party.

Nvidia commits a gigawatt of Vera Rubin chips to Mira Murati's startup, a supply the FT values at tens of billions of dollars, alongside an undisclosed cash investment.

A Hugging Face survey of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries finds the entire ecosystem has converged on async disaggregated training to fix a single brutal bottleneck: GPU idle time during long rollouts.

Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.

Max Schwarzer, VP of Research and Head of Post-Training at OpenAI, leaves after a year leading the team that shipped GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex to return to RL research at Anthropic.