Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace will fly Nvidia Jetson modules on a lunar rover and orbiter this year, the first GPUs to run on and around the Moon.

OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.

DeepSeek-R1 is the 671B-parameter open-weight reasoning model that matched OpenAI o1 on math and coding benchmarks and triggered a $589 billion single-day drop in Nvidia's market cap in January 2025.

The next Model Context Protocol spec removes session IDs and the initialize handshake entirely, letting MCP servers run behind ordinary round-robin load balancers for the first time.

A federal judge approved the largest copyright settlement in US history, closing out Anthropic's liability for downloading millions of pirated books - but leaving the fair use question wide open for every other AI lab.

OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.

Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal MoE model claims to trail only Claude Fable 5, but ships with no model card, no benchmark table, and no confirmed pricing.

Nonprofit Current AI wants a free, public alternative to Big Tech's AI models, and it has $400 million and a chatbot to show for it so far.

Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

Moonshot's Kimi K3 tops LMArena's Frontend Code Arena and undercuts Opus 4.8 on cost per task, but a tripled price tag, a rising hallucination rate, and an unresolved distillation question complicate the win.