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Microsoft is routing tens of thousands of productivity prompts to its own MAI models, with Copilot now using MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash as the default backend, marking a shift to first‑party AI infrastructure.
China’s Alibaba on Monday unveiled its largest and most capable AI model to date, sending its shares surging, while a research firm said DeepSeek's latest product offers cut‑throat pricing that is more than 100 times cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
Agave 4.2 cuts on‑chain rent by ~90%, increases transaction size, and halves slot times, reshaping Solana’s network economics and performance.
Google Cloud announced a new version of its Network Load Balancer that supports global external passthrough, improving latency and cross‑region failover for real‑time applications.
The AI‑powered browser‑assistant startup Polar secured a $5.7 million seed round after its product saved a client 25+ hours per person per week, prompting the client to cancel its Clay subscription.
AMD unveiled Instella‑MoE‑16B‑A3B, a 16B parameter open‑source Mixture‑of‑Experts language model that activates only 2.8B parameters per token, trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs.
Microsoft announced a new AI model that reduces cybersecurity expenses by half, leveraging specialized models for threat detection and response.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled its DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash model, boosting autonomous agent capabilities while cutting API costs.
The voice‑AI startup is betting that smaller, specialized models can deliver real‑time conversational AI indistinguishable from a human speaker.
OpenAI announced a 20% price cut for GPT‑5.6 Terra and an 80% cut for GPT‑5.6 Luna to address cost concerns and stay competitive with other AI providers.
Amazon is overhauling its AI portfolio, phasing out flagship Nova models and focusing on frontier‑model research.
A lawsuit accuses Apple of negligence after a fraudulent crypto wallet app on the App Store caused users to lose over $1.8 million.
Tesla reports record revenue but weak earnings, with a sharp decline in operating margin and negative free cash flow.
Fly.io announced a $25 million investment to accelerate its compute platform designed for AI agents, positioning it as a key player in AI infrastructure.
Meta rolls out a new Marketplace app for sellers and a free verification system to boost authenticity and engagement on its platform.
Opus 5, the newest model from Anthropic, outperforms its predecessor on benchmarks and offers a cheaper, less restrictive option for developers.
Runway introduced its Media Router, an infrastructure layer that automatically selects the best generative media model based on quality, speed, or cost.
Block co‑founder Jack Dorsey launched Buzz, an open‑source workplace chat that integrates human users and AI agents, positioning it as a challenger to Slack and GitHub.
Google Cloud announces general availability of Cloud Run service health, enabling automatic cross‑region failover for serverless workloads following a recent data‑center outage.
OpenAI announced it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, including a $20 billion data‑center campus in Georgia.
Apple is partnering with payment processor Klarna to launch the Apple Upgrade lease‑to‑own program, set to launch July 28, offering multi‑year payment plans for its devices.
Microsoft is preparing to launch Project Perception, an AI‑driven platform that orchestrates multiple models to make large‑scale vulnerability discovery cheaper and more efficient.
SkyPilot announced a $20 million Series A round to expand its AI compute platform, positioning itself as a neutral, high‑performance cloud for AI workloads.
Meshy secured a Series B round to push its 3D generation platform beyond static assets into real‑time, AI‑driven game worlds and mechanics.