Cortical Labs' CL1 proves living neurons can play Doom. Nvidia's secret inference chip reshapes AI deployment, MWC 2026 debuts foldable handhelds, and kinetic strikes on AWS UAE expose cloud fragility.

OpenAI secures a Pentagon deal and $110B round as Anthropic fights a government supply-chain blacklist in court. Nvidia's $30B stake cements GPU dominance while Google deploys 100-hour iron-air storage at data centers.

OpenAI's $110B raise at $730B valuation cements Amazon's Trainium at 2GW and AWS as exclusive Frontier cloud host. Perplexity's Computer enters the picture with 19-model orchestration, signaling the agentic AI era.

ASML's high-NA EUV clears the path to sub-2nm AI chips, while Fujitsu's 144-core Monaka leverages Broadcom's 3D stacking. Form Energy's iron-air battery tackles grid storage, and Block's AI pivot costs 4,000 jobs.

Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs hit customers with 288GB HBM4 memory, while Alibaba's Qwen3.5 brings frontier AI to local hardware. Plus: Claude weaponized in a 150GB Mexican government breach and sodium-ion batteries break through.

Meta's $100B AMD deal, potentially handing Meta a 10% equity stake, is a tectonic shift in AI compute. AMD's ROCm stack finally gets hyperscale validation. Meanwhile, Wayve pulls $1.2B to bet on embodied AI.

Meta's $100B AMD deal threatens Nvidia's AI hardware dominance. ASML's 1000W EUV laser targets 330 wph by 2030. NASA remotely reprogrammed a Snapdragon 801 on Mars from 140M miles, while Hegseth pressures Anthropic to drop AI safeguards.

Taalas’ LLM-on-chip breakthrough packs generative AI directly into silicon, while OpenAI’s Codex agents now automate million-line software builds with built-in observability.

Solid-state transformers are revolutionizing power grids, while Apple’s on-device AI agent redefines smartphone intelligence with minimal parameters.

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro sets new AI benchmarks, while consistency diffusion models deliver 14x faster inference without quality loss.