BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI and $NVDA sign a deal to build and deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters.

NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt is deployed.

Google released a new Mixboard experiment on @GoogleLabs in the US to let users play with a nano-banana-powered concepting board.

🚀 Alibaba floods market with Qwen3 upgrades

Six new models drop, led by 1T-param Qwen-Max.

Details:
• Max: near-frontier in coding + agent tasks
• Heavy: perfect math reasoning scores
• Omni: handles text, image, audio, video → 19 langs speech in, 10 out
• VL: top open-source visual model, beats many closed rivals
• Plus: LiveTranslate-Flash (real-time), Guard (safety), new Coders

📊 Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown

New benchmark ranks LLMs by real user votes across demographics.

Details:
• Uses Scale’s global network → 100 countries, 70 languages
• Free access via Playground app → side-by-side model tests
• Voting optional + data locked 60 days to block gaming
• Leaderboards split by age, education, language.

https://scale.com/showdown
https://scale.com/leaderboard

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five data center sites across Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and the Midwest for Stargate, pushing the project toward its 10GW target.

Suno released v5 of its music generation model, claiming new SOTA performance by a significant margin with new creative control and audio upgrades.

Microsoft published a cooling breakthrough in AI chips, etching tiny liquid channels to achieve 3x better heat removal and potentially solving AI’s “melting GPUs” problem.

Google Labs launched Mixboard, a new AI concept board that helps users visualize and refine ideas through text prompts and images with the Nano Banana editing model.

Abu Dhabi unveiled a new strategy to become the world's first fully AI-native government by 2027, planning to deploy 200+ AI solutions across the sector.

⚡ xAI unveils Grok 4 Fast

New reasoning model = near-frontier power at tiny cost.

Details:
• Uses 40% fewer thinking tokens → 98% cheaper
• Beats Claude 4.1 Opus + Gemini 2.5 Pro on key tests
• Scores: 85.7% GPQA Diamond, 92% AIME 2025
• #1 in LMArena Search Arena, top in coding (better than Grok 4)
• Supports 2M tokens + native web + code tools

Kimi AI released "OK Computer", a new agent mode which can build complete websites.

"An agentic model with its own computer, K2 now has true agency."

💻 Google Cloud DORA report: AI now mainstream in dev

90% of developers use AI daily, but trust remains low.

Details:
• Survey of 5,000 pros → avg 2h/day with AI assistants
• 30% trust outputs “a little” or “not at all” yet still use them
• 80% see higher productivity, 59% better code quality
• Google launched DORA AI Capabilities Model → 7 best practices

Why it matters: AI is core to dev work, but humans still double-check — adoption grows even as skepticism stays.

📰 Everything else in AI today

Microsoft officially added Anthropic’s Claude into 365 Copilot, marking the company’s first expansion outside of OpenAI for model choice.

Elon Musk took a shot at Anthropic on X, saying “winning was never in the set of possible outcomes” for the Claude-maker.

SAP and OpenAI unveiled plans for "OpenAI for Germany," a sovereign AI platform that will bring AI capabilities to German public sector workers, launching in 2026.

Cohere announced $100M funding that brings its valuation to nearly $7B, fueled by enterprise demand for its security-first AI platform, North, and Command A models.

Cloudflare open-sourced VibeSDK, enabling anyone to deploy their own AI-powered "vibe coding" platform with one click.

The U.K. government revealed that its new AI-powered Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator helped recover a record £480M in fraudulent claims over the past year.

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

🎬 Kling 2.5 Turbo - New high-quality video generation model

🍌 Mixboard - Google’s experimental canvas for visualizing ideas

👁️ Qwen3-VL - Alibaba’s new SOTA vision-language model

BREAKING 🚨: ChatGPT Pulse is rolling out to Pro users on mobile to deliver personalised reports which can be tailored to the user’s needs every day.

Pro testing time 👀

Google released upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite with better quality and improved efficiency.

Now available on Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and APIs.

1. Nvidia’s $100B bet on OpenAI

Nvidia will invest up to $100B into OpenAI to deploy 10 GW of GPU datacenters, representing millions of GPUs for next-gen AI infrastructure.

2. ChatGPT launches “Pulse”
OpenAI introduced Pulse,

a feature that researches overnight and delivers daily personalized updates based on chat history, feedback, and connected apps like Gmail or Calendar. Now in preview for Pro mobile users.