StepFun launched Step 5 Preview, a 600B sparse MoE model scoring 44 on the Intelligence Index at one-eighth the cost of Claude Opus 5, with weights due Oct 15.
StepFun’s Step 5 Preview Hits 44 on Intelligence Index at One-Eighth Opus 5 Cost Read More »
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro 2nm flagship SoC debuts as the first 2nm smartphone chip, packing 33B transistors and on-device LLM support up to 30B parameters.
A dovish Fed dot plot after the September rate hike ignited a Bitcoin short squeeze that wiped $230M in BTC shorts and $445M across crypto as BTC broke past.
Four consumers filed a federal antitrust suit accusing OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, and Google of illegally coordinating to slow frontier AI development under.
D-Robotics Sunrise chip $400M Series C extends the company’s funding to $770M; the FCC ban on Chinese robots, not the chip itself, is the regulatory flashpoint.
D-Robotics Closes $400M for Sunrise Chips as US Ban on Chinese Humanoid Robots Bites Read More »
Prince Group crypto fraud UK freeze widens: $71M Belgravia mansion owned by Hu Xiaowei’s wife Zhao Chen is now blocked under the UK June 2026 strategy.
UK Freezes $71 Million London Mansion of Prince Group Hu Xiaowei’s Wife Zhao Chen Read More »
Google Gemini cybersecurity disclosure lands days after Anthropic Claude and OpenAI disclosed similar hacking tests with Irregular; Gemini alone stopped itself.
Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies in Cybersecurity Test, Then Stopped Itself Read More »
Nvidia Blackwell wafer production starts at TSMC Phoenix in volume; chips still ship to Taiwan for CoWoS-L packaging until Amkor Arizona build completes.
CFTC crypto rules proposal lands at the White House four days after the Clarity Act failed 49-50 in the Senate; Chair Selig targets final rules by 2028.
CFTC Sends Crypto Rule Proposal to White House After CLARITY Act Senate Stalls Read More »
Anthropic Claude R&D disclosure shows Claude leads 26 percent of the lab own model work, up from zero in February, with 30,000 agents under human oversight.
Anthropic Says Claude Now Leads 26% of Its Own Model R&D, Up From None in February Read More »
