AMD launches the first desktop processors with Copilot+ qualified NPUs, putting 50 TOPS of on-device AI into AM5 desktops starting Q2 2026.

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, commits 2GW of Trainium capacity, and becomes the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier - reshaping how enterprises deploy AI agents on AWS.

macOS RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 has turned four Mac Studios into a 1.5TB unified memory cluster that runs Kimi K2 at 25 tokens per second - a setup that would cost $780K with NVIDIA H100s.

Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.

Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.

Apple releases Xcode 26.3 with native support for Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, exposing 20 MCP tools that let AI agents build, test, and visually verify iOS apps autonomously.

Anthropic will challenge the Pentagon's unprecedented supply chain risk designation in court, calling it legally unsound and a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government.

Perplexity launched Computer, a $200-per-month autonomous agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - staking the company's pivot from search engine to digital labor on infrastructure it rents from potential competitors.

Truffle Security found 2,863 public Google API keys that silently gained access to Gemini AI endpoints, exposing private data and racking up charges with no warning to developers.

A security researcher found that the mcp-kali-server package - shipped in Kali's official repos - interpolates AI-supplied parameters directly into shell commands with shell=True, enabling trivial arbitrary command execution.