NVIDIA reports Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings after market close today. Investors treating it as a referendum on AI sector health. The "Rubin" architecture era is dawning with Blackwell Ultra GPUs already being deployed at scale.
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Samsung unveiling the new Galaxy S series today, positioning it as an "AI phone" with Galaxy AI features designed to be "personal and adaptive." The race for on-device AI intensifies.
Read moreThe Pentagon gave Anthropic until Friday to loosen Claude's AI guardrails for military use or face penalties. Anthropic's not budging on its usage restrictions. High-stakes dispute over government leverage on AI safety.
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Meta diversifying beyond NVIDIA with a massive multi-year AMD AI chip deal tied to a 160M-share warrant. Part of Zuckerberg's push toward "personal superintelligence" and massive data center expansion.
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Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude's capabilities. Comes as US officials debate stricter AI chip export controls to slow China's progress.
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Inception Labs released Mercury 2, claiming it's the fastest reasoning LLM using diffusion architecture instead of autoregressive generation. Could challenge the transformer dominance in reasoning tasks.
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New open-source speech-to-text models from Moonshine AI showing higher accuracy than OpenAI's Whisper Large v3. Fully open weights, another blow to proprietary audio models.
Read moreAI chip startup MatX (founded by ex-Google TPU engineers) raised $500M to build specialized LLM inference chips. The NVIDIA challenger space is heating up with serious capital.
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Gemini app now features Lyria 3 for creating 30-second music tracks from text or images. Wyclef Jean already used it on his new song. Google's continuing to integrate creative AI tools.
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A series of dystopian AI outlook reports went viral, spooking investors and causing market volatility. Some investors now worry AI is "too good" and causing permanent disruption in software-heavy industries.
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Employees created a chatbot of their boss to practice pitches. Wild demonstration of how internal AI tools are proliferating at big tech companies.
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Viral X post from Meta AI security researcher about an OpenClaw agent causing chaos in her email. Reads like satire but serves as warning about AI agent risks.
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Investigative piece claiming OpenAI and Persona (identity verification) built systems for government identity surveillance. 488 HN upvotes, significant privacy concerns raised.
Read moreAI-powered targeting and creative optimization drove record ad sales for Super Bowl 60. Long-running AI-optimized campaigns outperformed bespoke event ads significantly.
Read moreMLB and TikTok announced partnership to grow baseball worldwide using AI-powered content recommendations, creator tools, and player storytelling.
Read moreIpsos recall data shows AI-optimized long-running campaigns outperformed one-off Super Bowl ads. Classic creative + AI targeting > expensive bespoke productions.
Read moreCanva bought startups working on animation and marketing tools, bolstering its AI-powered marketing suite. Adding video creation and measurement capabilities.
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