AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B; Instinct hits $10B
AMD pays $8.2B in stock for World Labs, Instinct's valuation quadruples to $10B, and LeCun calls Amodei 'deluded'.
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OpenAI's agents went rogue — 100+ orgs just got the warning email
OpenAI is combing 50 petabytes of logs after its agents bypassed security controls. Apple is locking down macOS against agents too.
Meta's 100g VR Glasses put a live hologram of you on the call
Meta's $1,299 VR Glasses build a photorealistic hologram of your face for WhatsApp and Zoom calls. They ship in spring 2027.
Meta's Muse Charm puts an AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a palm-sized 5G gadget with no camera that talks to its Muse AI agent without a phone. It ships in December, price not announced.
Meta's new VR headset is now 100g glasses, and they cost $1,299
Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100g, have 5K micro-OLED displays and are controlled by eyes, hands and voice. $1,299.99, shipping spring 2027.
Meta's Muse Charm puts its AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a 5G keychain gadget for talking to its Muse agent without glasses. It ships in December, but Muse is still US-only.
AI is eating the engineers America's chip boom needs to survive
Only 3% of US engineering grads go into chips. McKinsey warns fabs could be up to 157,000 workers short by 2030, as AI pulls the talent away.
AMD hikes GPU and chipset prices 10% as TSMC wafer costs bite
AMD reportedly told partners to expect ~10% higher prices on Radeon GPUs, AI accelerators and chipsets from Q4. Ryzen may be next.
Researchers used Claude to break into OpenAI's code in 72 hours
Hacktron chained a Discourse image bug and an over-scoped SSO token into OpenAI's monorepo — Opus 5 wrote the exploit Opus 4.8 couldn't.
Jensen Huang: Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year
Huang says Nvidia's chip volume will double in 2027, and supply, not demand, is what's holding it back. Vera Rubin is the engine.
OpenAI's Astra for Law jumps GPT-6 legal accuracy from 39% to 54%
OpenAI paired GPT-6 Astra with an index of 99.9% of published US precedent. It now gets legal research questions right 54% of the time.
Anthropic is profitable — if you ignore the expensive parts
A $559M Q2 'profit' on $10.9B revenue leans on EBITDA math and a discounted compute deal, with no public books to check.
OpenAI is reportedly shopping a $1.2T round before the IPO
A raise at ~$1.2 trillion would be a 40% markup on March's $852B round — and price OpenAI above its own IPO target.
6 months after Iran's drones, AWS's Gulf data centers are still dark
Iranian strikes in March took out AWS sites in the UAE and Bahrain. Six months on they're still mostly offline, a first for cloud outages.
OpenAI drops $300M on Glass Imaging — its device needs eyes
OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, a camera AI startup founded by the ex-Apple engineers behind Portrait Mode, for about $300M. Its first device slips to 2027.
OpenAI sells Astra to Wall Street while rationing it at home
GPT-6 Astra now powers a Wall Street edition of ChatGPT, launched the same week demand made OpenAI pause new $200 Pro sign-ups.
Nvidia eyes a $10B anchor stake in Anthropic's $2T IPO
Nvidia may put up to $10B into Anthropic's IPO as the Claude maker looks to raise $100B at a ~$2T valuation, which would be the biggest listing ever.
Jensen Huang's AI habit: make the models fight each other
Nvidia's CEO doesn't take an AI's first answer. He has several models critique each other, then asks for the best combined answer.
Apple Watch is now always listening — and taking notes
Series 12 and Ultra 4 get Siri Recap and Live Rewind: ambient AI notes on your conversations, buffered inside a locked-down chip.
Apple doubles the iPhone's AI silicon to make Siri work
The A20 Pro packs a dual 16-core Neural Engine on 2nm — twice the AI compute of A19 Pro — to run the rebuilt Siri on-device.
Samsung just wrote Europe's biggest-ever check to Mistral
Mistral raised €3B at a €21B valuation — Europe's largest tech round ever — and it's all going into data centres.
Meta's Muse agent gets its own computer — and a warden
Meta shipped Muse, a personal AI agent that lives in WhatsApp and runs on its own cloud VM, with a second agent policing everything it sends out.
The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed — devs are hiring again
The Economist counts ~1m US jobs created by AI against 200k lost, and software engineers are the biggest winners.
Crusoe 3x'd to $30B — and Jane Street is buying GPUs now
AI data center builder Crusoe raised $3B at a $30B valuation, triple its October mark, and a quant shop just signed a $13B GPU deal.