China Maps AI Dominance in $70B Five-Year Plan
China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.
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Trump's Plan to Kill State AI Laws Splits the GOP
Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.
NVIDIA's Secret Chip Fuses GPU and Groq for OpenAI
NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.
Amazon Bets $50B on OpenAI to Build Stateful AI on AWS
Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, commits 2GW of Trainium capacity, and becomes the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier - reshaping how enterprises deploy AI agents on AWS.
Someone Reverse-Engineered Apple's Neural Engine and Trained a Model on It
A developer cracked Apple's undocumented ANE private APIs, measured its real throughput at 19 TFLOPS FP16 (not the marketed 38 TOPS), and trained a 109M-parameter transformer on hardware Apple designed exclusively for inference.
Qwen 3.5 Small Series Ships Four Models From 0.8B to 9B
Alibaba completes the Qwen 3.5 lineup with four small models - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B - all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B outperforms last-gen Qwen3-30B and beats GPT-5-Nano on vision benchmarks.
GPT-5.4 Leaked Twice in Codex Repo PRs - Here Is What We Know
Two pull requests in OpenAI's public Codex GitHub repo referenced GPT-5.4 before being scrubbed - one adding full-resolution vision support, the other a fast mode toggle. Seven force pushes and a deleted employee screenshot confirm this was not intentional.
Huawei Takes Atlas 950 Global to Challenge Nvidia
Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at MWC Barcelona - 8,192 NPUs delivering 8 ExaFLOPS - marking its first overseas showcase of the AI supercomputer that directly targets Nvidia's cluster dominance.
Claude Goes Down Globally as AWS Data Centers Burn in the Middle East
Anthropic's Claude experienced elevated errors across claude.ai, Claude Code, and authentication starting at 11:49 UTC, while AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain went offline after objects struck a facility and power failures cascaded across the region.
An AI Agent Just Pwned Trivy's 32K-Star Repo via GitHub Actions
An autonomous agent powered by Claude Opus 4.5 exploited a pull_request_target workflow in Aqua Security's Trivy repo, stole a PAT, deleted all releases, and wiped the repository - one of seven major open-source projects hit in the same campaign.
Apple's Core AI Will Replace Core ML in iOS 27
Apple plans to unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026, a modernized framework replacing Core ML that opens the door to third-party AI models and MCP integration across its entire ecosystem.
Alibaba Takes on Meta With Qwen AI Smart Glasses
Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.
