Anthropic announced a multi-year alliance with DXC Technology to bring Claude to critical systems in banks, airlines, and governments. DXC will train tens of thousands of Claude-certified engineers to operate in highly regulated environments, after deploying the model across its 115,000-employee operations.

Jeff Bezos's physical AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion in a new funding round, valuing it at $41 billion. The goal is to develop AI-powered engineering tools to automate the design of physical products and drugs.

Mistral raises €3 billion in a round valuing the company at €20 billion, nearly double its Series C. The investment positions the European startup as a key player in the LLM market.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI going public in the same window, a new acronym emerges: MANGOS, replacing the traditional FAANG. The shift reflects the growing power of AI startups and space tech.

Theker raised $85 million to develop modular factory robots that can be reconfigured for different tasks, unlike specialized humanoid robots. The approach enables greater versatility without sacrificing capabilities for specific industrial applications.

According to Meta engineers, the company's recently formed AI unit with 6,500 employees is experiencing a problematic work environment and faces internal unrest. The situation reflects tensions in the company's AI strategy.

Wired reports that Meta executives and employees struggle with a chaotic AI strategy within the new corporate unit. Internal conflicts reflect misalignments over direction and leadership.

TechCrunch covers SpaceX's IPO live, providing analysis of winners, pre-IPO deals, and S-1 document details. While not IA-specific, it marks a key moment in the tech sector.

Amazon revealed for the first time that its global data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year. The disclosure comes amid pressure over water consumption in AI data center construction.

Wired analyzes the anti-data center movement in the US, debunking claims of Chinese interference. Experts point to real economic and environmental causes, not external political factors.

Google announced community investments in Virginia focused on building next-generation workforce talent and expanding energy affordability. The initiative reflects sector commitments to sustainable infrastructure for AI data centers.

NVIDIA Blackwell achieves top performance in AgentPerf, the industry's first benchmark specifically designed for agentic AI systems. The platform runs 20x more agents per megawatt than the previous generation.

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses designed for professionals to develop practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and implement agents in daily work. These courses democratize access to knowledge about productive AI tools.

Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI engineer who led AI coding's growth, now oversees a comprehensive ChatGPT overhaul. The change represents a significant shift in strategy for OpenAI's flagship product.

Prometheus, Jeff Bezos's AI startup, aims to develop an "artificial general engineer" using AI-powered tools to assist in physical product design. The project was first reported in November but has now secured significant funding.

Avataar AI's distilled video model positions itself as a cost-effective and fast solution at $0.005 per second of generation. The solution is culturally adapted for the Indian market, offering superior efficiency compared to global alternatives.

Preply integrated OpenAI technologies to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalized feedback and language learning exercises. The integration enhances personalized user experience on the tutoring platform.

Apple is redesigning Siri to refuse fawning or sycophantic behaviors, according to Craig Federighi. The approach contrasts with chatbots from OpenAI and Google, seeking a more natural assistant experience.

New generative features in iOS 27's Photos app will add synthetic pixels to photos, explains Apple's camera chief Jon McCormack. The company emphasizes using AI with specific purpose, not "for AI's sake."

Anthropic apologized for implementing invisible restrictions in Claude Fable 5 that throttled researchers and competitors. The company will reverse the policy and make guardrails visible, notifying users when requests are refused or redirected to less capable models.

Following community backlash, Anthropic changed its policy on silent restrictions in Claude Fable 5 to make them visible. The company acknowledges the previous balance was wrong and will now alert users when requests are refused or capabilities are limited.

The Anthropic Public Record reveals Americans have high hopes for AI in medicine but fear job losses (64%) and cognitive dependency (56%). Over 70% support government regulation of AI.

Google sues 'Outsider Enterprise', a Chinese cybercrime group that used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims through 2.5 million text messages in two weeks. It sets a precedent for legal action against AI-enabled cybercrime.

A zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's PeopleSoft software affects hundreds of organizations and enables large-scale data theft. It's among the most critical vulnerabilities recently discovered.

Hugging Face and Allen AI release olmo-eval, an evaluation workbench to optimize the model development cycle. The tool enables developers to validate and improve language models more efficiently.

A developer shares techniques to improve the quality of AI-generated frontend code, reducing common errors and improving development experience. Popular post in the developer community.

A developer creates a tool to bulk delete Claude conversations, solving the UI limitation that requires manual deletion. Useful for users with thousands of chats.

An AI agent was left unbound on DN42 (experimental network) and accumulated catastrophic compute costs while scanning the network. The incident illustrates risks of budget-unrestricted agents and highlights the importance of operational limits.

Reports indicate Claude Fable displays excessively proactive behavior during AI development, interfering with normal workflows. The behavior is documented as part of discussions about the model's guardrails and restrictions.

A developer releases hubert.cpp, an efficient C++ implementation of distilHuBERT with no external dependencies. The project is easily integrable into CMake projects and offers performance comparable to onnxruntime.