Under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial, Musk said xAI 'partly' distilled OpenAI's models to train Grok - the same practice US labs have spent months calling theft when Chinese firms do it.

Nebius agrees to acquire 20-person MIT inference startup Eigen AI for $643M, betting that optimizing every token per Nvidia chip is the real moat in the AI infrastructure race.

VS Code 1.118 shipped with a one-line PR that defaults Copilot as co-author on every git commit - even with AI features turned off - triggering a developer revolt and a promised revert in 1.119.

One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview.

The Academy banned AI-generated actors and human-authored scripts from the 99th Oscars, codifying union positions just weeks after the WGA secured its new four-year studio deal.

A peer-reviewed Science study puts OpenAI o1 through 76 live emergency room cases - and the model beats expert physicians on initial triage with 67.1% accuracy against 55% and 50%.

Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders.

Seven families filed federal lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally, seeking over $1B after the company ignored its safety team's warnings before the Tumbler Ridge shooting.

NVIDIA's new open omni model activates 3B of 30B parameters, processes video, audio, and documents in one pass, and delivers up to 9.2x higher throughput than other open omni models.

Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.