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US orders DeepSeek removed from federal civilian IT systems
The US Department of Homeland Security ordered civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and stop buying them. The ban also covers third-party products built on DeepSeek.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readGermany and Nvidia sign an industrial AI declaration
At the Invest in Germany summit in Berlin, the German government signed a joint declaration with Nvidia on physical AI models. Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups, and about a dozen firms including Siemens and Audi are expected to join.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readAmazon opens TorchNeuron to run PyTorch code on Trainium
Amazon put TorchNeuron, which lets existing PyTorch code run on its Trainium chips with a one-line change, into public beta under Apache 2.0, targeting Nvidia's software advantage.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readDeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference engine
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the inference software behind its own services, on GitHub under Apache 2.0. It targets V4.1-Flash and supports Huawei Ascend chips on par with Nvidia.
Read News · Funding 3 min readSalesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy customer engagement platform Braze at an enterprise value of about $5.66 billion, paying $47.50 a share in cash.
Read News · Science 3 min readStanford's Halcyon generates images with far less compute
Stanford researchers including Fei-Fei Li and Jiajun Wu released Halcyon, a text-to-image family trained from scratch without language pretraining that beats rivals with 18 to 275 times less compute.
Read News · Startups 3 min readVectorial raises $3 million to simulate human behaviour
San Francisco-based Vectorial raised a $3 million seed round for a platform that tests product journeys, campaigns and customer-facing AI agents against simulated people modelled on real users.
Read News · Ads 3 min readPeople are using AI agents to strip ads from smart TVs
Developers are using AI coding agents such as Claude Code and DeepSeek to remove ads, tracking and bloatware from smart TVs. The cleanyourtv and dumbtv projects on GitHub lead the trend.
Read News · Models 3 min readInception's diffusion model Mercury 3 tops 1,000 tokens a second
Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model that generates text in parallel. It claims over 1,000 tokens per second and wins over GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on some benchmarks.
Read News · Policy 3 min readCanadian news publishers sue Anthropic over copyright
Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press have sued Anthropic in Ontario, alleging their content was used without permission to develop Claude. The claims are unproven.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readMeta opens up about Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI cluster
Meta says the first phase of Prometheus, its Ohio supercluster, is finished and it is working to grow it to about 1 million GPUs. The Muse model family was trained there.
Read News · Security 3 min readMicrosoft starts risk-scoring the AI agents inside companies
Microsoft added controls to 365 E7 and Project Perception that treat AI agents as potential insider threats. An agent whose risk score rises can lose write access, need human sign-off, or be stopped.
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