
OpenAI Moves to AWS One Day After Microsoft Exclusivity Ends
One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview.
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One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview.

A peer-reviewed Science study puts OpenAI o1 through 76 live emergency room cases - and the model beats expert physicians on initial triage with 67.1% accuracy against 55% and 50%.

Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders.

Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a one-year-old startup building foundation models for humanoid robots whose founders describe their goal as physical AGI.

Attackers hit CVE-2026-42208, a critical pre-auth SQL injection in LiteLLM proxy, within 36 hours of the public advisory - targeting database tables holding API keys for every upstream AI provider.

The Pentagon signed AI agreements with eight tech companies for its most classified military networks, pointedly excluding Anthropic even as courts battle over its blacklist status.

NVIDIA's new open omni model activates 3B of 30B parameters, processes video, audio, and documents in one pass, and delivers up to 9.2x higher throughput than other open omni models.

Seven families filed federal lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally, seeking over $1B after the company ignored its safety team's warnings before the Tumbler Ridge shooting.

Gemini arrives in 4 million GM vehicles and 16 Volvo models via OTA update as GM phases out Apple CarPlay by 2028. The in-car AI platform war is now a real fight.

Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.

Anthropic releases nine MCP-based connectors embedding Claude directly into Adobe, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, and five other professional creative tools.

Mistral releases Medium 3.5, a 128B open-weights model that scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, and pairs it with asynchronous cloud coding agents in Vibe that open pull requests on GitHub while you are away.