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The 6 top stories of the 51 AIBriefs curated that day.
Over 25 companies signed an open letter warning that broad restrictions on open-weight models would harm American competitiveness. The coalition argues that open weights are essential for innovation and diffusion, distinguishing them from the risks of unlawful intellectual property extraction.
The Rubin architecture introduces NVFP4 precision and specialized Tensor Cores designed to scale agentic AI and always-on AI factory workloads. It succeeds previous architectures by optimizing for large-scale mixture-of-experts model training and inference.
Databricks is a day-zero launch partner for Thinking Machines Lab, making the Inkling model available on its platform.
Figure is partnering with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform, committing $3.5 billion initially with plans to scale beyond $6 billion. Nscale also invested an undisclosed sum in the robotics startup.
The new AI-powered cybersecurity platform aims to detect vulnerabilities and deploy protections in hours instead of weeks. CEO Nikesh Arora argues enterprises "have to fight AI with AI" as AI reshapes both attacks and defense.
Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu leading the lab. Jeff Dean and collaborators founded Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation to automate machine learning research.
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