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A power line failure near Washington, D.C., exposed how rapidly growing AI data centres can destabilise the electrical grid, highlighting the need for smarter power management.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke in a low nine-figure deal, aiming to bring the AI assistant’s conversational personality to its coding agent Devin.

Anthropic has launched Opus 5, its latest AI model featuring improved performance, lighter safety restrictions, enhanced verification capabilities and a new Automatic Fallbacks feature.

Leading AI companies have urged U.S. policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington considers measures targeting Chinese AI firms.

AMD has introduced its Helios AI rack-scale system, targeting Nvidia’s dominance in AI infrastructure with support from major customers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic.

Anthropic has upgraded Claude’s voice mode by adding support for Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models, along with integrations for productivity apps such as Gmail, Slack and Notion.

AI chip startup Etched has raised $300 million in a Series C round, doubling its valuation to $10.3 billion as it scales AI inference systems.

Lunar Outpost plans to use Nvidia’s Jetson platform on its next lunar rover, potentially making it the first GPU to operate on the moon.

AI researchers dispute claims that Moonshot built Kimi K3 primarily by distilling Anthropic’s Fable, saying advanced training methods likely played a larger role.

ServiceNow invested $40 million in India’s BusinessNext to strengthen its AI-driven financial services software strategy and expand global banking solutions.

Alphabet reported strong Google Cloud growth driven by enterprise AI adoption, reinforcing its strategy of investing heavily in AI infrastructure.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions remain possible after allegations that Moonshot improperly distilled Anthropic’s Fable AI model.
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