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Nvidia, SK Group, Samsung and Broadcom signed close to a trillion dollars in AI chip and memory deals in San Francisco, and the memory shortage behind them means someone outside the room ends up paying.
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A single transmission line fault near Virginia's data center alley triggered a synchronized 3-gigawatt disconnect that took PJM 11 minutes to stabilize, twice as bad as a similar 2024 event.

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue is publicly pressing OpenAI to release the rogue agents' execution traces and fund $100 million in shared cyber defenses.

Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.

Nvidia, SK Group, Samsung and Broadcom signed close to a trillion dollars in AI chip and memory deals in San Francisco, and the memory shortage behind them means someone outside the room ends up paying.

VIDRAFT compressed its leaderboard-climbing Darwin-36B-Opus into POCKET-35B, a GPU-free model for phones and CPUs, but its headline GPQA score depends on how you count.

Cognition paid a low nine-figure sum for texting assistant Poke, its second acquisition in a year, betting that how an AI agent talks matters as much as what it can do.

A bipartisan House bill would force AI companies to build government shutdown capability, a week after a State Department cable told diplomats no such 'kill switch' exists.

Twenty-five companies signed an open letter urging the White House not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, using Jensen Huang's first-ever X post to deliver it.

A single chat message could break an AI agent out of Claude Cowork's isolated VM and reach an entire Mac, and Anthropic closed the report as informative.

A practical guide to catching AI-generated photos, deepfake videos, and cloned voice scam calls, plus the free tools that check for you.

A practical, beginner-friendly guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, and dedicated apps for wedding budgets, guest lists, vendor emails, and timelines.

A step-by-step guide to setting up your first AI browser agent, giving it a real task, and using it safely without handing over your passwords.

Cognition rebranded Windsurf as Devin Desktop and rebuilt it around a Kanban board for managing fleets of coding agents - here's what that actually changes.

Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing 17% and fixes the 1M-token context collapse we flagged in May, but its intelligence score hasn't moved since 3.5 Flash.

Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter preview claims it trails only Claude Fable 5. I tested it for free at chat.qwen.ai and found a capable but slow model with zero benchmarks to back the claim.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 rankings for AI coding agents in real shell environments - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and open-weight challengers scored on the same 89 tasks.

Updated July 2026 Chatbot Arena Elo rankings from Arena.ai: 7M+ votes across 368 models, Claude Opus 4.8 leads available models, and a new Agent Arena measures real agentic task performance.

June 2026 overall LLM rankings covering Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and the open-weight models catching up fast.

VIDRAFT quantizes its Darwin-36B-Opus MoE model into a 35B GGUF that runs on stock llama.cpp with no GPU, trading GPQA Diamond score for CPU and phone portability.

Anthropic's July 2026 release prices near-Fable-5 coding and agentic performance at Opus 4.8 rates, doubling Frontier-Bench scores and landing within 0.5 points of Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the cost.

Cognition's proprietary coding model powering Devin, scoring 42.3% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main at $1.97/task via Cerebras inference at 1000 tokens/sec.

Complete specs and analysis of SambaNova's SN50 RDU - a TSMC 3nm dataflow chip with 3.2 PFLOPS FP8, three-tier memory, and claimed 5x speed over NVIDIA B200.

A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.6 - the open-weight challenger that could match Opus on coding at potentially 89x lower output cost.

Two Chinese open-weight trillion-parameter MoE models with ~32B active parameters each - DeepSeek V4 bets on cost and context, Kimi K2.5 bets on Agent Swarm and verified benchmarks.

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index reveals that when Claude produces polished code and documents, users question its reasoning 5.6 times less often.

A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V3.2 and V4 - examining the generational leap from 671B text-only to a trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 1M context.

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's most capable model with three modes, 400K context, and record-setting professional benchmarks - but speed and pricing raise questions.

Elon Musk's deposition claims that Grok is safer than ChatGPT are undercut by xAI's own deepfake scandal and mounting regulatory scrutiny ahead of the April trial.

Cursor's cloud agents now run in isolated VMs where they write software, test it themselves, record video proof, and submit merge-ready pull requests.

Anthropic's Claude hit number one on Apple's App Store after users publicly switched from ChatGPT in support of the company's Pentagon stance - but the narrative is more complicated than it looks.

DeepSeek will release V4, a natively multimodal trillion-parameter model with a 1M token context window, in the first week of March - optimized for Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia.

AMD Instinct MI300X specs, benchmarks, and real-world performance data. 192GB HBM3, 5,300 GB/s bandwidth, 2,610 TFLOPS FP8 on CDNA 3 chiplet architecture.

AMD Instinct MI350X specs and performance estimates. 288GB HBM3e, ~6,000 GB/s bandwidth, ~3,600 TFLOPS FP8 on CDNA 4 architecture at TSMC 3nm.