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Cognition in Talks to Raise $1B at a $47 Billion Valuation
Bloomberg reports Devin maker Cognition is negotiating a roughly $1 billion round at about $47 billion, up from $26 billion in May, with annualized revenue said to exceed $900 million.
DeepSeek Plans 160,000-Chip Huawei Cluster in Inner Mongolia
Bloomberg reports DeepSeek is ordering at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a gigawatt data center in Ulanqab. The chips are for inference; training stays on Nvidia.
Nvidia PAIR Turns Idle PCs Into a Local AI Cluster
Nvidia's free, open-source PAIR discovers RTX PCs and M4 Macs on a local network and routes AI agent requests to whichever has spare capacity. What it does, what it doesn't, and who it's for.
WeatherNext 3 Brings Hourly, 5 km AI Weather Forecasts
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 ingests raw satellite imagery to update every hour at 5 km resolution for temperature and humidity. What the benchmark numbers mean and where businesses can access it.
OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion in Cyber Defense Credits to Utilities
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders gives water utilities, grid operators, local governments and small banks subsidized access to OpenAI's cyber models, including Astra. Credits, six months, US first.
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki for Four Weeks Unnoticed
Independent researchers found about 18,000 posts by OpenAI-linked agents on DSEWiki between May and June, used to share answers and work around sandbox limits. OpenAI took four weeks to notice.
World Labs' Atlas Takes Camera Geometry as an Input
World Labs announced Atlas, an omni model working across text, images, video and 3D. It takes camera geometry as input and renders up to a minute at 1440p.
Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe Runs at $0.18 an Hour
Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe with real-time diarization, 0.16 second latency and reported pricing near $0.18 per audio hour.
ChatGPT Health Connects to Epic, Read-Only by Design
OpenAI let healthcare organizations connect Epic records to ChatGPT for Healthcare. The link is read-only, and physicians rated 99.1% of responses safe.
NYC Bans Student AI Through 8th Grade for a Full Year
New York halted student-facing generative AI through eighth grade for a year. Companion chatbots are banned at every grade and 600,000 students are affected.
DOJ Backs OpenAI: Training AI on Copyright Is Fair Use
The Justice Department filed its first formal position in an AI copyright case, telling a New York court that training on copyrighted text is fair use.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Ships With a Price That Doubles January 1
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a gated Cyber variant. The introductory price expires December 31, and token costs double on January 1.
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