Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
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Patreon Blocks AI Crawlers, Demands Consent and Pay
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training bots at the network level, moving past robots.txt requests that crawlers were already ignoring.
Databricks Hits $188B While Defaulting to Chinese AI for Code
Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.
A 27B AI Model Now Fits an iPhone - Apple Is Watching
PrismML compressed a 27B-parameter Qwen model from 54GB to under 4GB using 1-bit and ternary weights, and Apple is evaluating the technology for on-device Siri.
General Compute's $400M Loan Bypasses Nvidia GPUs
General Compute borrowed $400 million from Upper90 against a fleet of SambaNova SN50 inference chips, the first major AI infrastructure loan not collateralized by Nvidia hardware.
LM Studio's Bionic Agent Splits Local and Cloud AI
LM Studio launched Bionic, a standalone agent app that routes coding and document work between local open models and a Zero Data Retention cloud tier.
China's WAICO and America's Pax Silica Split AI World
Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.
Kimi K3 Tops Frontend Arena Just as Its Price Triples
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 jumped 17 spots to #1 on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena, but the win comes with a tripled price tag and a weaker showing on broader intelligence benchmarks.
Elorian's $300M Joins AI's No-Product Funding Club
Ex-Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55M at a $300M valuation for Elorian, a visual AI lab with no product yet, joining a growing list of frontier labs priced on pedigree alone.
OpenAI's $230 Keyboard Lands Amid Apple Lawsuit
OpenAI launched a $230 mechanical keypad for managing Codex coding agents days after Apple sued the company over alleged hardware trade secret theft.
China Clears Apple Intelligence After Two-Year Wait
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.
Anthropic, Blackstone Launch $1.5B AI Services Firm
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.
