Tencent Rents 100,000 Chips It Cannot Legally Buy

Tencent's largest-ever overseas compute deal - about $7bn over five years, roughly 30% paid upfront - rents some 100,000 advanced chips inside Oracle's South-east Asian data centres, because US rules bar China from buying the silicon but still let it lease the machines abroad.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Argon Tops the Benchmarks. Google's Own Staff Doubt It.

Employees with access say Argon falls short on real coding work - front-end design in particular - and two people familiar with it call the model 'benchmaxxed'; Google says that is inaccurate, and Alphabet pared its after-hours gain once the report landed.

OpenAI Licenses Synopsys to Build a Chip Model

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

Claude Found an Enzyme. The Lab Work Hasn't.

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Claude Code Clears FedRAMP High, No Seat Fees

Databricks Ships a Cheaper Yes-or-No Call

Agents Can Suggest Edits Now, Not Overwrite

HydraFusion Reaches VS Code, Picks Your Model

The FightLaw, policy and power

Spies Posed as an Anthropic Staffer to Phish Experts

Proofpoint says a Beijing-aligned group impersonated an Anthropic employee and former US officials to reach the inboxes of AI export-control and military-AI specialists at universities, think tanks and law firms - no breach confirmed, and the firm warns it may have seen only part of it.

FTC Confirms It's Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic

The agency confirmed the probe publicly a day after the Post broke it, and is drafting civil investigative demands to compel testimony from Anthropic, OpenAI and the watchdog METR - three days after those same executives signed Trump's voluntary accord.

Hawley Breaks Ranks: Sue the Agent's Maker

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

ChatGPT and Grok Will Take Off the Hijab

An AI School, $55,000 a Year

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Mathematicians Move to Kill the AI Mathathon