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COMPUTE BULLETIN

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01

Nvidia puts more than $170 billion on the line for neoclouds

SourcesThe Information
02

U.S. orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek AI systems

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI·TechCrunch·The Decoder
03

SpaceX Q3 revenue hits $14.6 billion as AI segment surges to $7.6 billion

SourcesReuters·Fortune·The Verge·The Latent
04

Amazon purchases $5 billion in Nvidia AI systems

SourcesBusiness Insider
05

Nscale and Anthropic in talks for $45 billion cloud computing deal

SourcesReuters·Bloomberg Technology·Data Center Dynamics·TechCrunch·The Latent
06

SpaceX swings to a profit as AI revenue surpasses Starlink

SourcesThe New York Times·Business Insider
07

Chinese tech giants drop $35 billion on Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs

SourcesReuters·Semafor Technology·Tom's Hardware·The Latent
08

Hackers Abuse AI Pen-Test Tool Cairn to Automate Massive Attack Spree

SourcesDark Reading
09

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

SourcesSecurityWeek·TechCrunch
10

Gecko Robotics secures $300M contract with the U.S. Navy

SourcesThe Robot Report
11

Fireworks AI in early talks for new funding at $30bn-$40bn valuation

SourcesBusiness Insider
12

Waymo lays groundwork for autonomous ride-hailing in Spain's Madrid region

SourcesWaymo (Official)
13

Anthropic struggles to secure cloud compute amid rising competitive tensions

SourcesTechCrunch
14

DeepSeek Open-Sources Framework Behind Its High-Margin AI Inference

SourcesThe Information·South China Morning Post·The Decoder·The New Stack
15

US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents

SourcesSecurityWeek
16

OpenAI seeks $30 billion funding round before Anthropic IPO

SourcesReuters·The Latent
17

Researchers seek warning signs for harmful AI after OpenAI agent escape

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI
18

Astrolab to launch first LLM-capable computer on lunar rover

SourcesMIT Technology Review
19

UK finance watchdog proposes mandatory reporting of AI failures

SourcesThe Register AI + ML
20

Zuckerberg's $100 billion-plus AI bet signals Meta's push to own the full stack

SourcesFortune
21

OpenAI says AI agents weakened internal monitoring system

SourcesReuters
22

U.S. Army Cyber Command Developing ECHOTRIBBLE Program to Deploy AI Agents as Self-Spreading Cyberweapons

SourcesTom's Hardware·The Decoder
23

Meta's AI spending, Muse assistant adoption in focus for quarterly results

SourcesReuters
24

China condemns U.S. ban on DeepSeek A.I. in government systems

SourcesThe New York Times
25

Anthropic faces competitive risk from Chinese AI models ahead of IPO

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
26

Sam Altman pitches three AI safety endgames including single-firm dominance

SourcesThe Information·The Decoder
27

Google DeepMind claims four AI agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours

SourcesTom's Hardware·Tech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI
28

Salesforce deepens AI bets with $5.66 billion Braze deal

SourcesReuters
29

US State Department sanctions five Chinese entities over AI trade secrets theft

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
30

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to beef up biotech business

SourcesOpenAI (Official)·The Information·TechCrunch·Axios AI+
31

Nvidia Moves to Back GPU Cloud Provider Firmus After Investors Balk at Its IPO

SourcesThe Information
32

Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice agent SDK with multilingual support

SourcesMistral AI·The Decoder
33

AI startup ASI valued at $3 billion in latest funding round

SourcesReuters
34

Anthropic proposes AI safety bill with judicial oversight for model blocks

SourcesTechCrunch
35

Meta removes "train" from commercial TOS amid AI backlash

SourcesArs Technica
36

Anthropic's leaked AI safety bill sparks widespread backlash

SourcesSemafor Technology·Zvi Mowshowitz
37

AI Platform Cairn Abused by Threat Actors to Compromise Over 100 Organizations

SourcesSecurityWeek
38

Meta pauses Muse sharing feature after security researchers find chats exposed online

SourcesThe Verge
39

Nvidia CEO urges German manufacturers to adopt AI

SourcesBusiness Insider·Tech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI
40

Snowflake Brings Low-Latency AI Decision Models to Cortex AI

SourcesSnowflake AI
41

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to keynote in Berlin amid investor scrutiny

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
42

FairStress benchmark reveals hidden fairness gaps in LLM decision explanations

SourcesAllen Institute for AI
43

Alibaba’s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
44

Industrial ReMEmbR scales spatiotemporal memory for warehouse robot fleets

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
45

Spotify removes 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations

SourcesThe Verge·Engadget
46

OpenAI introduces locked chats feature for ChatGPT

SourcesTechCrunch·Engadget
47

Elevenlabs launches Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models for real-time AI conversations

SourcesThe Decoder·The New Stack
48

Google joins Amazon in challenging Nvidia's dominance with AI app developers

SourcesTechCrunch
49

Cloudflare launches Clairic, an AI model optimized for fast, low-cost document data extraction

SourcesThe Decoder
50

Daytona startup valued at $1 billion in $60 million Series B for agentic cloud

SourcesFortune
51

Modal adopts Nvidia Vera CPUs following performance tests

SourcesTom's Hardware
52

AMD launches FSR Upscaling 4.1 for broader device support

SourcesAMD AI·Tom's Hardware·The Verge
53

Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

SourcesTech Xplore: Robotics
54

Intuitive tightens 2026 robotic-surgery procedure growth forecast

SourcesReuters
55

AI Agent joins top internet researchers listserv, sparking chaos

SourcesWIRED
56

llm-d 1.0 hardens open-source AI inference for production

SourcesIBM Research
57

Google brings Gemini Personal Intelligence to Android Auto

SourcesThe Verge·Ars Technica·TechCrunch·Engadget
58

Hong Kong to Focus on Infrastructure Monitoring in First Phase of 'AI City Brain'

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
59

AGCO and Agility Robotics Advance Smart Manufacturing with Humanoid Robot Pilot in Hesston, Kansas, Facility

SourcesAgility Robotics·RoboticsTomorrow
60

China creates state-owned firm in Xiongan to develop nation’s AI data resources

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
61

AMD and Intel Collaborate to Simplify AI Development on x86 CPUs with PyTorch

SourcesAMD AI·HPCwire
62

Lutnick announces investment to boost semiconductor production in North Carolina

SourcesReuters
63

Otter.ai raises $320 million in non-equity financing from General Catalyst

SourcesReuters·TechCrunch
64

Brazil’s family farming backbone embraces Chinese AI to reverse vital sector’s decline

SourcesSouth China Morning Post
65

Toyota Material Handling says digital twins can halve autonomous forklift commissioning time

SourcesRobotics & Automation News
66

ChatGPT launches latest iteration of ads

SourcesAdExchanger
67

Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents

SourcesThe New Stack
68

Researchers Propose Enumeration-Guided Training for Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Safety Certificates

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
69

ABB Robotics introduces two new high-performance robots for precision manufacturing

SourcesRobotics & Automation News
70

Lantronix introduces Spotter for Flight-Grade AI in Autonomous Fleets

SourcesUnmanned Systems Technology
71

Yelp embeds AI features including automated restaurant wait time checks

SourcesTechCrunch
72

NEURA Robotics and NXAI Join Forces on Memory for Physical AI

SourcesNEURA Robotics
73

AEON unifies video and 3D world models for consistent simulation

SourcesarXiv cs.CV
74

Researchers propose Token-Energy Law to model LLM decode energy efficiency

SourcesarXiv cs.LG
75

Datadog bets agents can test AI-written code

SourcesThe New Stack
76

UniWALM unified world-action-language model learns video, action, language in single shared representation

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
77

OpenAMRobot 2.0 update details open-source dual-arm mobile manipulator

SourcesROS Discourse
78

Tesollo robotic hand sales set to surpass 1,000 units in 2026

SourcesRobotics & Automation News
79

Socionext Expands Agentic AI to Advanced, Large-Scale SoC Physical Design

SourcesHPCwire
80

NextDC shares shed 44% on revenue delay

SourcesReuters
81

Joints, Camera, Action! enables co-generation of 3D motion and video for arbitrary rigs

SourcesarXiv cs.LG
82

EventSync uses Event-Driven memory updates for History-Dependent manipulation

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
83

ROBOTIS Introduces HX Friends Open-Source Hands and Grippers

SourcesROS Discourse
84

RoboCasa-shift evaluates VLA policy robustness in Long-Horizon household manipulation

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
85

PhysCanvas introduces vision-tactile world model for robot policy evaluation and learning

SourcesarXiv cs.RO
86

SolarRenderer achieves Few-Step generative reference rendering

SourcesarXiv cs.CV
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