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China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

The United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.
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Data-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwide

Top AI companies announced plans to build data centers that are projected to burn through trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity in the next few years.
In a lab, four robots move a metal frame using graph neural network coordination on a platform.
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Coordinating Robot Teams: Google DeepMind’s RoboBallet project blends GNNs with RL to drive 8-armed robots

In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Prominent dollar sign amid geometric lines, illustrating OpenAI's shift to for-profit status
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.
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Autonomous Systems Wage War: Drones are redefining warfare. What if humans lose control?

Drones are becoming the deadliest weapons in today’s war zones, and they’re not just following orders. Should AI decide who lives or dies?
Image shows MolmoAct system processing "Put the plate in the dishwasher" through spatial reasoning.
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Better Spatial Perception for Robots: MolmoAct creates spatial maps for robots to plot their actions before executing text directions

Robot control systems that accept only text input struggle to translate words into motions in space. Researchers developed a system that enables robots to plan spatial paths before they execute text instructions.
Stacks of AMD GPUs with OpenAI logo above, illustrating their strategic partnership in processing power.
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OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD

OpenAI, strapped for processing power to drive a worldwide constellation of planned data centers, turned to Nvidia’s archrival AMD.
Bar chart comparing performance of Qwen3 models against others in diverse tasks, highlighting Qwen3-Max.
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Qwen3 Goes Big (and Smaller): Alibaba expands Qwen3 family with a 1 trillion-parameter Max model, open-weights Qwen3-VL, and the Qwen3-Omni voice model

Alibaba rounded out the Qwen3 family with its biggest large language model to date as well as smaller models that process text, images, video, and/or audio.
Aerial view of expansive data centers with orange roofs, representing massive AI infrastructure projects.
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OpenAI On the Road to Trillion-Dollar Spending: OpenAI partners with Oracle, Nvidia, Softbank, and more to build out 20 gigawatts of data center capacity

A flurry of announcements brought into sharper focus OpenAI’s plans to build what may amount to trillions of dollars of global computing capacity.
Swarms of military drones flying in formation over a field, showing autonomous AI-driven coordination in warfare.
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Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative

Swarms of drones that coordinate with one another autonomously have become a battlefield staple in Ukraine.
Diagram of Qwen3-Next architecture with Mixture of Experts, Gated Attention, and Gated DeltaNet layers.
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Qwen3-Next Accelerates: Alibaba’s new model uses hybrid attention layers and a sparse MoE architecture for speed and performance

Alibaba updated its popular Qwen3 open-weights models with a number of fresh, speed-boosting tweaks.
Diagram comparing sliding window attention and ATLAS memory, showing wider context tracking in ATLAS.
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10 Million Tokens of Input Context: ATLAS, a transformer-like architecture, can process a context window as large as ten million tokens

An alternative to attention enables large language models to track relationships among words across extraordinarily wide spans of text.
Hand holding a Pixel 10 smartphone using Google’s Magic Cue AI assistant, which suggests a location reply in a text message conversation.
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Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10

Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.
Aerial view of a large, partially constructed data center surrounded by parked vehicles and red soil in Abilene, Texas
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OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Illustration of Nvidia H20 and Huawei Ascend 910 AI chips on wood with a Chinese flag, symbolizing China’s shift from U.S. AI processors to domestic development amid geopolitical tensions.
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China Reconsiders U.S. AI Processors: Nvidia and AMD must reassure China their high-end GPUs don't pose security risk

Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.
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