Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
UBS report projects that major tech companies' AI infrastructure spending will exceed $1 trillion by 2027, driven by continued demand for computing capacity and supporting US economic growth.
Google launches TorchTPU, a specialized PyTorch framework variant designed to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI computing.
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its inference framework, to reduce costs and democratize access to large language model serving at scale.
Inception AI released Mercury 3, claiming it outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on benchmark tests at 4–8x faster speeds.
Respan released an open-source AI gateway in Rust after abandoning 100,000+ lines of LiteLLM wrapper code due to maintenance issues and dependency fragility.
The Sideload podcast episode discusses AI hype cycles and skepticism about trustworthiness in AI tools and applications.
Meta's Muse app reached 10 million US downloads in 40 days and ranks among the fastest-growing apps, also showing strong user retention.
OpenAI has rolled out locked chats for ChatGPT, allowing users to hide selected conversations from chat history and search to protect sensitive discussions.
Google is rolling out Gemini with Personal Intelligence to Android Auto and Google built-in vehicles, allowing the AI assistant to access Gmail, photos, calendar, and other connected services while driving.
OpenAI reports that GPT-6.1 Sol significantly improves legacy code writing and migration capabilities compared to earlier models.
Spotify has removed over 50 million AI-generated spam tracks from recommendations and 75 million spam tracks from the platform entirely, while rolling out artist protection tools.
An author reflects on AI progress over 30 months, demonstrating how agentic AI tools like Claude now handle complex multi-step tasks autonomously compared to earlier chatbot-era workflows.
An AI agent's unexpected participation in a major internet researchers' listserv sparked significant discussion about outdated privacy assumptions among digital experts.
Perplexity is launching a local-first mode for its Mac app that allows Computer to run entirely offline on the device without requiring an internet connection.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference engine, enabling developers to run its V4.1 Flash model with the same optimizations used in its API while reducing compute costs.
The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents designed to identify and neutralize targets in enemy digital infrastructures.
An opinion piece argues that teams using AI coding tools like Claude, Cursor and Copilot risk diminishing software value by prioritizing code volume over meaningful features.
A CTO argues that AI, despite improving at complex tasks, remains unreliable at simple judgments, suggesting human expertise will remain essential in the workforce.
