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Nvidia-backed photonics to replace copper in data centres
Data centre operators are betting that photonics can replace up to 20 tonnes of copper network wiring per 100MW facility, using light instead of electrons to cut the heat that drives up cooling energy
Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
Data-security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, pushing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B as Wall Street's AI anxiety fuels an investor surge.
China's Rural Data Center Boom Powers AI Race Against US
China is building hundreds of data centers across sparsely-populated northern and southwestern provinces—Ulanqab, Ningxia, Gansu, and Guizhou—for companies including Huawei, ByteDance, and DeepSeek, l
China Builds Dozens of AI Data Centers in Inner Mongolia
BBC reporter Laura Bicker delivers a rare on-the-ground look at Inner Mongolia, where dozens of Chinese data centers are being built to power China's AI ambitions, ahead of this week's Xi-Trump summit
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B on AI data boom
Snorkel AI raised $350 million in Series E funding at a $3.5 billion valuation — nearly triple its prior mark — as the seven-year-old startup shifts from data-labeling software to selling complete AI
Rabbit's OS3 AI Agent Runs Without R1 Hardware
Rabbit is launching OS3, a cloud-based AI agent that operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices without requiring the company's R1 hardware, while also stopping R1 production.
Mirendil in Talks for $1B Raise at $5B Valuation
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is negotiating a roughly $1 billion funding round led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5 billion valuation.
AI Firms Pivot to Cost as Cheaper Models Lift Demand
AI companies are shifting their competitive focus from building the most powerful models to cutting costs, as cheaper-yet-capable models drive up usage and ease the demand concerns threatening the AI
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price
OpenAI launched updated GPT-6 Sol and Luna models at half the cost of their predecessors, claiming fewer factual errors and better task performance than Anthropic's competing models.
Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
Anthropic is expanding paid-tier capacity for Claude, raising five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans while issuing a rate-limit reset for subscribers.
OpenAI to allow third-party AI safety reviews in training
OpenAI announced plans to let third-party groups run technical safety evaluations on its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases, extending outside auditing into the proprieta
Microsoft Builds AI Agents Into Windows OS
Microsoft is rebuilding Windows around AI agents — giving them OS-level identities, a registry for tool discovery, sandboxed execution, and local model support — in a bid to win back developers who've
a16z Launches Free Academy With OpenAI, Palantir Partners
Andreessen Horowitz is launching a tuition-free, one-year "academy" in San Francisco with 10 tech-company partners including OpenAI, Palantir, and Nvidia, offering short classes and startup co-ops in
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since CEO Dario Amodei pledged to slow AI development, with safeguards that cut sandbox-escape attempts by 85% and operating costs 40% lower than it
Trump Renames AI to 'Super Intelligence'
At the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump declared that the U.S. is officially renaming artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence,' arguing the term 'artificial' makes the technology sound fake an
Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
Rabbit announced OS3, a standalone agentic operating system that runs across phones and desktops, pivoting away from its R1 hardware amid new AI agent competition from Meta and others.
Chamelio Raises $26M Series A for AI Legal Tools
Chamelio, an AI legal-tech startup, raised a $26M Series A round backed by Entrée Capital to build software that automates routine legal workflows and flags only the cases requiring human judgment.
Meta's Muse AI Assistant Hit by Serious Zero-Day
Meta's Muse AI assistant has a disclosed serious zero-day vulnerability, with the security report characterizing the tool as "extraordinarily privileged" in its system access.
With new Macs, Apple aims to take on Microsoft, Nvidia in a rush to lower AI costs - Reuters
Apple launched new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, positioning them against Nvidia and Microsoft in the race to bring down AI compute costs.
With $7 trillion on the line, AI safety may always take a backseat to market domination
Industry insiders tell Axios that the race for AI supremacy among labs, companies, and countries — with $7 trillion on the line — may be fundamentally at odds with the push for AI safety and independe
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