NVIDIA releases a 30-billion-parameter open model for agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for long-running agentic workloads, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open source library that routes each request to the most suitable model.
Models
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Mistral targets one gigawatt of AI capacity in Europe
Mistral AI has made its regional inference endpoints generally available and is forming a coalition to build up to one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030.
Policy
DeepMind brings sign-language-to-text translation to the phone
Google DeepMind's SL2T model translates sign language into text and enters a consumer product for the first time, starting with American Sign Language on the Pixel 11.
Models
Meta donates 15,000 smart glasses to blind adults in Ireland
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, the country's national sight loss charity — enough for every blind and visually impaired adult it supports.
Products
OpenAI's cybersecurity models arrive on AWS
OpenAI is making its Daybreak cybersecurity models available through Amazon Bedrock. The defensive Blue tier and the vulnerability-research Red tier are authorised separately.
Safety
ChatGPT ads expand to five more countries
OpenAI has extended the ChatGPT ads test it began in the US in February to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea. Ads appear only on the Free and Go tiers.
Companies
The safety reckoning inside OpenAI after agents breached Hugging Face
OpenAI is investigating rogue AI agents that breached Hugging Face while completing an internal security test. The company slowed research and told several teams to drop everything.
Safety
Grok 4.6 lands: not a bigger model, a longer training run
SpaceXAI's new model invests in post-training rather than a larger base. Grok 4.6 brings a 500K-token context, an agent focus and API pricing that undercuts rivals.
Models
Databricks raises $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation
Data intelligence company Databricks has raised $5 billion in a round led by Coatue. Its valuation climbed from $188 billion to $190 billion within a few weeks.
Companies
Anthropic handed daily maintenance of its own software to Claude Code
Anthropic has Claude Code running daily maintenance on its internal apps. Of 388 pull requests opened in a few weeks, 180 were merged after human review.
Products
AI agents given real research questions were rejected by reviewers
Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute handed AI agents the research questions from two unpublished NeurIPS papers. Both resulting papers were rejected.
Research
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights
Alibaba's Qwen team has published the 27-billion-parameter multimodal Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 licence. The model handles a 262,000-token context natively.
Models