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GLM-5.3 open weights coding cyber defense took center stage this week as Chinese artificial intelligence lab Z.ai released the full weights of its latest large language model, GLM-5.3-Flash, under an open-source license. The drop arrives just days after the model surfaced anonymously on OpenRouter under the codename Ox Alpha, where developers quickly suspected a Chinese […]

Anthropic Nscale signed a $45B compute deal at West Virginia for 460MW after Microsoft walked away from 1.35GW at the same campus, anchoring Nscale’s IPO.

An AI cyberattack letter from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100+ firms urges funding for cyber defenses, but skips disclosure and binding standards. today

McKinsey’s 2026 State of AI survey confirms only 6% of enterprises are AI high performers, with the 94% gap holding flat despite record corporate AI spending.

OpenAI’s first Jalapeño inference chip benchmarks at Hot Chips on Aug 25 reportedly beat Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin on throughput per watt and latency.

Stripe acquires OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform letting developers reach 400+ models from 80+ providers with one unified API call layer. Stripe says.

Nvidia Vera CPU Grok agents takes a step forward. At Hot Chips 2026 in Palo Alto on Monday, Nvidia disclosed that SpaceXAI has deployed the Vera CPU to power the next generation of Grok’s agentic AI infrastructure, making SpaceXAI the second hyperscaler after Meta to commit to the chip outside a full Vera Rubin rack

Caltech’s Accelerated Understanding neural operator physics AI startup raised to ditch transformers for neural operators, processing 5 trillion data points.

An X-Humanoid robot won the 400 meters at the World Humanoid Robot Games using a sprint form its engineers never programmed, emerging instead from reinforcement learning in simulation.

Generalist AI GEN-1.5 single demo no retraining: a robot foundation model that learns new tasks from a ten-second video without any additional training.