Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs
A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…
Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 Billion—Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI Chip Startup Valuation Triples in One Year
Qualcomm just offered 3x last year’s valuation for a RISC-V chip startup. The bid tells you more about NVIDIA’s moat than…
DeepSeek Launches Janus-Pro-7B on January 27—Open-Source 7B Model Beats DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion on GenEval and DPG-Bench
A 7-billion-parameter open-source model just outperformed DALL-E 3 on two major image generation benchmarks. DeepSeek dropped Janus-Pro-7B on…
NSA to Run Classified AI Benchmarking for Military ‘Frontier Models’—Trump’s Executive Order 14409 Gives Government 30-Day Pre-Release Access
The NSA now gets first look at frontier AI models before anyone else—up to 30 days before public release. Executive Order 14409, signed June…
Visa Embeds Payment Network Into ChatGPT on June 10—AI Agents Can Now Shop Across 175 Million Merchant Locations
ChatGPT can now spend your money. Visa just wired 175 million stores into OpenAI’s agent layer—with spending limits and fraud checks,…
Apple Rebuilds Siri on Google’s 1.2-Trillion-Parameter Gemini Model—$1 Billion Annual Deal Announced June 8 at WWDC 2026
Apple just paid Google $1 billion per year to make Siri intelligent. The company that built its brand on privacy now routes your voice queries…
Google DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome on June 25—AI Processes 1 Million DNA Base Pairs at Single-Nucleotide Resolution, Wins 22 of 24 Benchmarks
DeepMind just made every specialized genomics model obsolete in a single release. AlphaGenome processes 1 million DNA base pairs at once—and…
China’s AI Companion Rules Take Effect July 15, 2026—Five Agencies Ban Virtual Partners for Minors, Mandate Addiction Detection
Five Chinese government agencies just created the world’s first dedicated regulation for emotionally interactive AI, banning virtual…
ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit
OpenAI shipped scheduled automation inside ChatGPT on January 14, 2025, capping it at ten tasks per user. The company that built the…
US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at 5:21 PM on June 12—Cybersecurity Experts Call Export Control ‘Dangerous’
The US government killed the world’s most advanced AI models in four hours. Security experts say that makes America less safe, not more.