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Anysphere hiring 12 infrastructure engineers

Cursor's parent company posted 12 new infrastructure roles in a single day, suggesting major scaling initiative.

Elon Musk announces Grok 3 on X

Elon Musk posted on X that xAI will release Grok 3 with 'significantly improved reasoning and real-time data access'.

OpenAI and Anthropic co-publish AI safety evaluation framework

Joint paper establishes standardized benchmarks for evaluating AI system safety and alignment properties.

Ex-OpenAI research lead joins Thinking Machines Lab

Senior researcher departed OpenAI after 4 years. Joined as Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines Lab.

OpenAI files patent for reasoning architecture with verifiable chain-of-thought

USPTO filing describes a novel architecture for verifiable multi-step reasoning in large language models.

SpaceX receives FAA approval for Starship orbital flight

FAA issues launch license for SpaceX Starship full orbital flight from Boca Chica, Texas.

Meta releases Llama 4 model weights on GitHub

Meta open-sourced Llama 4 with 405B parameters. Repository gained 25k stars in 72 hours.

Anthropic raises $2B Series D led by Google

Anthropic secures $2 billion in new funding with Google leading the round, valuing the company at $60 billion.

Anduril awarded $1.2B DARPA contract for autonomous drones

Department of Defense contract for next-generation autonomous drone swarm technology.

NVIDIA partners with Mistral for inference optimization

NVIDIA and Mistral AI announce partnership to optimize Mistral models for TensorRT-LLM on H200 and B200 GPUs.

Shield AI awarded $1.3B Navy contract for autonomous fighter pilot system

U.S. Navy awarded Shield AI a contract for Hivemind autonomy stack deployment on F/A-18 aircraft.

Etched files patent for transformer-specific memory architecture

USPTO filing reveals novel memory access pattern optimized for attention computation.

Cursor parent Anysphere raises $400M Series B at $9B valuation

Anysphere, maker of Cursor, raises $400M from a16z, Thrive Capital, and Stripe founders.

Scale AI hiring 40 ML engineers for government contracts division

Scale AI posted 40 machine learning engineer positions focused on defense and intelligence data labeling.

Hugging Face Transformers hits 150k stars on GitHub

The transformers library reached 150,000 GitHub stars, cementing its position as the most popular ML library.

Former Anthropic and DeepMind researchers spotted forming new lab

LinkedIn analysis reveals 5 researchers from Anthropic and DeepMind converging. New domain 'atlas-ai-research.com' registered.

Physical Intelligence closes $400M Series A

Largest Series A for a robotics company. Led by Thrive Capital and Lux Capital.

Perplexity launches enterprise search product

Perplexity Enterprise Pro launched with SOC 2 compliance, SSO, and private data indexing for organizations.

Vercel launches AI Gateway for multi-model routing

Vercel ships AI Gateway enabling automatic routing between OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models with fallback.

Anthropic releases Claude tool-use SDK

Open-source SDK for building tool-using AI agents with Claude. 3k stars in first week.

Databricks raises $500M extension at $43B valuation

Databricks secures additional $500M from existing investors ahead of potential 2027 IPO.

Figure AI CEO tweets teaser of humanoid robot in BMW factory

Video showing Figure 02 performing assembly tasks. 4.2M views in 12 hours.

Stripe launches AI-powered fraud detection engine

Stripe Radar 3.0 uses proprietary ML models trained on billions of transactions for real-time fraud prevention.

Etched ships first Sohu chips to beta customers

Etched begins shipping its transformer-specific ASIC to select customers for benchmarking and evaluation.

Cerebras hiring senior recruiter for hardware team

Recruiter-hiring-recruiter pattern. Often precedes major hiring wave.

Cohere partners with Oracle for enterprise AI deployment

Cohere models integrated into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for enterprise customers globally.

Runway raises $141M Series D for Gen-4 video model

Runway secures funding to develop Gen-4, its next-generation AI video generation model.

Groq launches developer API with sub-100ms latency

Public API launch for LPU inference. Pricing at $0.05/M tokens for Llama 3.

NVIDIA hiring 100 AI software engineers for CUDA Next

NVIDIA posted 100 software engineering roles for next-generation CUDA platform development.

DeepMind hiring 60 researchers for Gemini team

Google DeepMind posted 60 research roles for Gemini model development across London, Mountain View, and Zurich.

Replicate raises $40M Series B for inference platform

Replicate secures $40 million to scale its open-source model deployment platform. Led by a16z.

Anthropic launches Claude for Enterprise with SSO and audit logs

Anthropic ships enterprise-grade Claude deployment with SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and data residency controls.

OpenAI hiring 30 policy and safety researchers

OpenAI posted 30 new roles for policy, trust & safety, and alignment research teams.

Former NVIDIA VP of AI joins Etched as CTO

Senior NVIDIA executive with 12 years experience joins Etched to lead chip architecture team.

New AI chip startup forming in Austin with ex-AMD team

Domain 'tensorlogic.ai' registered by former AMD Instinct lead. Four AMD GPU architects updated LinkedIn to stealth.

Sakana AI open-sources evolutionary model merging framework

New repository with novel approach to combining LLMs using evolutionary strategies. 2,400 stars in first 48 hours.

Aravind Srinivas shares Perplexity Pro subscriber milestone

Perplexity CEO announces 10 million paid subscribers, up from 4 million six months ago.

Vercel AI SDK reaches 50k GitHub stars

The Vercel AI SDK for building AI-powered applications reached 50k stars. Active developer community.

Mistral AI releases Mistral Large 3 with 128k context

New flagship model achieving GPT-4 class performance with fully open weights. Apache 2.0 license.

Anduril receives ITAR export license for allied nations

State Department approves Anduril autonomous systems for export to Five Eyes alliance partners.

Scale AI wins $250M DoD contract for AI data labeling

Department of Defense awards Scale AI contract for classified data annotation and AI training data preparation.

Vercel hiring 15 AI product engineers

Vercel posted 15 engineering roles focused on AI SDK, AI Gateway, and v0 product development.

Cursor launches multi-file editing with Composer

Anysphere ships Composer feature enabling AI-driven edits across multiple files simultaneously.

Replicate releases open-source model packaging tool

Replicate open-sources Cog v2, its tool for packaging ML models into containers. 4k stars in first week.

OpenAI publishes GPT-5 technical report

Technical report reveals architecture details: mixture of experts, 1.8T active parameters, and new training methodology.

OpenAI launches GPT-5 with real-time capabilities

GPT-5 released with real-time internet access, multi-modal reasoning, and native code execution.

Anthropic receives FedRAMP authorization for Claude

Anthropic's Claude receives FedRAMP High authorization, enabling use by federal government agencies.

Wiz hiring 50 engineers across cloud security products

Wiz posted 50 engineering roles spanning runtime protection, CSPM, and AI security modules.

OpenAI open-sources Whisper v4 with real-time streaming

Whisper v4 released with streaming transcription support. 5k stars in first 24 hours.

Anthropic and Scale AI partner for red-teaming evaluations

Scale AI becomes primary provider for Anthropic's model red-teaming and safety evaluation pipeline.

NVIDIA files patent for next-gen GPU-to-GPU interconnect

USPTO filing reveals new interconnect technology for scaling GPU clusters beyond 100,000 chips.

Cerebras launches CS-3 chip for inference workloads

Cerebras Systems unveils WSE-3 chip optimized for inference, claiming 10x throughput improvement over H100.

SpaceX hiring 200 engineers for Starship program

SpaceX posted 200 engineering roles for Starship development, propulsion, and avionics teams in Boca Chica.

Mira Murati registers new AI company domain

Domain registration for 'boundlessai.com' traced to former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Team formation signals detected.

Anthropic hiring 25 safety researchers

Anthropic posted 25 new positions across alignment, interpretability, and red-teaming teams.

Guillermo Rauch demos v0 3.0 on X

Vercel CEO demonstrates v0's new capabilities for generating full-stack Next.js applications from natural language.

Three Meta FAIR researchers join Mistral AI

Three senior FAIR researchers specializing in efficient transformers departed Meta for Mistral AI in Paris.

Mistral AI open-sources function calling framework

Mistral releases open-source tool-use and function calling framework compatible with any LLM. 8k stars in first week.

Stripe partners with OpenAI for AI-powered payment fraud detection

Stripe integrates GPT-5 into its fraud detection pipeline for enhanced pattern recognition.

Databricks partners with Anthropic for enterprise AI deployment

Databricks integrates Claude models into its Mosaic AI platform for enterprise customers.

xAI hiring 50 GPU infrastructure engineers for Memphis supercomputer

xAI posted 50 roles for GPU cluster management, networking, and cooling systems at Memphis facility.

Cerebras files patent for wafer-scale cooling system

USPTO filing describes novel liquid cooling solution for wafer-scale chips enabling higher power density.

Groq launches Groq Cloud with multi-model inference

Groq Cloud platform supports Llama, Mistral, and Gemma models with sub-50ms latency on LPU hardware.

Andrej Karpathy releases new AI education video on YouTube

Karpathy's 'Let's build GPT from scratch' sequel gets 5M views in a week. Announces Eureka Labs curriculum.

Perplexity hiring 20 full-stack engineers for enterprise product

Perplexity posted 20 engineering roles focused on enterprise features, SOC 2, and data privacy.

Groq files patent for next-gen LPU architecture

USPTO filing reveals Groq's next-generation Language Processing Unit with 2x throughput improvements.

Anthropic files patent for constitutional AI training methodology

USPTO filing covers novel approach to aligning AI systems using constitutional principles during training.

Yann LeCun debates Ilya Sutskever on AI consciousness on X

Extended thread between Meta's Chief AI Scientist and SSI co-founder on whether current AI systems have any form of understanding.

Former DeepMind VP of Engineering joins Cerebras

Senior DeepMind engineer with 8 years experience joins Cerebras as VP of Software to lead compiler team.

Mistral AI publishes mixture-of-experts scaling paper

Paper shows how sparse MoE architectures can match dense models at 1/4 the compute cost.

Mistral AI hiring 10 researchers for Paris HQ

Mistral posted 10 research roles focusing on efficient architectures and multilingual models.

Scale AI launches Donovan 2.0 for defense intelligence

Scale AI's defense AI platform Donovan 2.0 ships with real-time satellite imagery analysis capabilities.

Mistral AI raises $640M Series B at $6B valuation

European AI champion secures major funding led by General Catalyst with participation from a16z and Lightspeed.

SpaceX files patent for rapid Starship refueling system

USPTO filing describes autonomous cryogenic propellant transfer system for orbital refueling.

Ex-Anthropic researchers form new AI safety lab

Three senior Anthropic alignment researchers registered 'alignmentworks.org'. GPU cluster leased in Oregon.

Physical Intelligence demos pi0 robot foundation model

Physical Intelligence demonstrates pi0 performing 50+ manipulation tasks after training on diverse robot data.

Wiz acquires cloud identity startup Dazz for $450M

Wiz acquires Dazz to add cloud identity and access management remediation to its CNAPP platform.

Scale AI partners with OpenAI for RLHF data pipeline

Scale AI becomes primary data provider for OpenAI's reinforcement learning from human feedback pipeline.

Jensen Huang keynote: 'AI factories are the new data centers'

NVIDIA CEO's Computex keynote announces Blackwell Ultra and the concept of AI factories. 8M views across platforms.

Former Stripe CTO joins Scale AI as President

David Singleton, former Stripe CTO, joins Scale AI as President to oversee go-to-market strategy.

EU AI Act compliance deadline forces OpenAI model documentation

OpenAI publishes comprehensive model cards and risk assessments for GPT-5 under EU AI Act requirements.

Former Google Brain researcher joins Sakana AI as VP Research

Senior Google Brain researcher with expertise in evolutionary computation joins Sakana AI in Tokyo.

Meta publishes Self-Play Fine-Tuning paper

FAIR team shows LLMs can improve through self-play without human preference data. Published at NeurIPS 2026.

Groq raises $640M Series D for LPU manufacturing

Groq secures $640 million to scale LPU chip manufacturing and build out inference cloud infrastructure.

NVIDIA faces EU antitrust investigation for GPU bundling

European Commission opens formal investigation into NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in and GPU software bundling practices.

Marc Andreessen predicts 'AI will eat software' in podcast

a16z co-founder on firm's podcast discusses how AI agents will replace traditional software interfaces.

xAI raises $6B Series B for supercomputer expansion

xAI secures $6 billion to build Colossus 2, a 200,000 GPU training cluster in Memphis.

Wiz raises $1B at $12B valuation after turning down Google acquisition

Wiz raised $1 billion in new funding after famously rejecting Google's $23B acquisition offer.

Hugging Face partners with AWS for SageMaker integration

Deep integration of Hugging Face model hub with AWS SageMaker for one-click deployment of open-source models.

Cohere raises $500M Series D for enterprise expansion

Cohere secures $500 million led by PSP Investments to expand enterprise AI platform globally.

Anthropic publishes scaling monosemanticity research

Paper reveals interpretable features in Claude, mapping millions of concepts inside the neural network.

OpenAI closes $6.6B funding round at $157B valuation

Largest private funding round ever. Led by Thrive Capital with participation from Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank.

Runway launches Gen-3 Alpha Turbo for real-time video

Runway ships Gen-3 Alpha Turbo with 10x faster generation and consistent character capabilities.

Figure AI raises $675M Series B at $2.6B valuation

Figure AI secures massive round led by Microsoft and NVIDIA for humanoid robot commercialization.

Cohere publishes multilingual embedding model paper

Paper introduces Embed v4 supporting 100+ languages with state-of-the-art retrieval performance.

SpaceX Starship receives Mars mission environmental clearance

FAA and NASA issue joint environmental impact assessment approval for crewed Mars mission flights.

Anduril partners with SpaceX for defense satellite constellation

Anduril and SpaceX announce joint defense satellite constellation for military communications and sensing.

Microsoft acquires Inflection AI team and licenses technology

Microsoft hired most of Inflection AI's team including CEO Mustafa Suleyman and paid $650M for licensing rights.

Perplexity raises $250M Series B at $3B valuation

Perplexity secures $250 million led by IVP with participation from NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos.

Sakana AI publishes evolutionary model merging breakthrough

Paper demonstrates automated discovery of novel model architectures through evolutionary search over model weights.

Mira Murati departs OpenAI as CTO

Mira Murati resigned as CTO of OpenAI, citing desire to 'explore new directions in AI development'.

Sam Altman hints at AGI timeline in blog post

OpenAI CEO publishes blog 'The Intelligence Age' suggesting AGI could arrive within 'a few thousand days'.

Figure AI partners with BMW for factory deployment

Figure and BMW sign deal to deploy Figure 02 humanoid robots across three BMW manufacturing plants.

DeepMind publishes AlphaFold 3 with expanded molecular prediction

AlphaFold 3 predicts structures and interactions of all life's molecules including proteins, DNA, RNA, and ligands.

Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B

Databricks acquired MosaicML to build custom AI models for enterprise customers within its platform.

Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1B pre-launch

SSI secures $1 billion from NFDG, a16z, and Sequoia before shipping any product. Highest pre-product valuation.

Andrej Karpathy launches Eureka Labs

Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy announced Eureka Labs, an AI-native education company.

Hugging Face acquires Gradio team

Hugging Face acquires Gradio, the popular ML demo framework, integrating it into Hugging Face Spaces.

Ilya Sutskever departs OpenAI, co-founds SSI

Ilya Sutskever formally departed OpenAI as Chief Scientist and co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.