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Anthropic built an AI model so capable it decided the public could not have access to it. On April 7, 2026, the company announced Claude Mythos Preview alongside Project Glasswing, a controlled program that puts the model exclusively in the hands of select cybersecurity partners rather than releasing it to everyone. The system card for Mythos Preview states plainly that “Claude Mythos Preview’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available.” The move marks the first time in nearly seven years that a leading AI company has publicly withheld a frontier model over…

Car manufacturing and software development have long operated like two separate lanes on a highway. Stellantis and Microsoft are now merging them. The two companies recently announced a five-year strategic collaboration that is focused on co-developing advanced AI, cybersecurity, and engineering capabilities. The deal builds on an existing relationship and covers a wide range of the automaker’s operations. It also includes a plan to cut Stellantis’ datacenter footprint by 60% by 2029 as the automaker shifts more of its digital backbone to Microsoft Azure. Why Cybersecurity Matters Here Think of a modern-connected car the way you think of a smartphone.…

The European Commission has awarded a six-year, €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European cloud providers, a decision built around its new Cloud Sovereignty Framework and aimed at keeping EU institutional data and services under stronger European control. The contract went to Luxembourg’s Post Telecom, Germany’s STACKIT, France’s ​Iliad’s data centre unit Scaleway, and Belgium’s Proximus. As a six-year deal, it is meant to serve EU institutions, bodies, and agencies, while pushing the market toward cloud services that comply more closely with EU laws and values. The Commission designed the tender to reduce dependence on non-European cloud infrastructure and…

South Korean AI chip startup DEEPX announced it is preparing to list its shares domestically, and the company is open to a possible U.S. listing afterward. The move comes as the global appetite for AI hardware continues to grow, and as DEEPX looks to raise the capital it needs to scale beyond its current footprint. What DEEPX Does Founded in 2018 by former Apple chip designer Lokwon Kim, DEEPX focuses on what it calls “physical AI,” meaning AI embedded directly into devices such as robots, autonomous vehicles, and factory systems. Rather than building chips for cloud-based AI workloads, the company…

In March 2021, a digital artwork by the artist Beeple sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million, making him one of the three most valuable living artists at auction. The work was a JPEG. There was no physical canvas, no sculpture, no object a buyer could hang on a wall. What the winning bidder paid for was a blockchain record confirming they owned the file. That sale became the moment NFTs broke into mainstream conversation, and for about a year, the market that followed it seemed unstoppable. Then it fell apart. What NFTs Actually Were An NFT, short for non-fungible token,…

Google’s talks with Marvell Technology over two new AI chips point to the fact that the tech giant is still pushing hard on its own silicon strategy, even after extending a TPU and networking supply agreement with Broadcom through 2031.According to many reports, the Marvell discussions involve a memory processing unit and a new TPU designed to run AI models more efficiently. One chip would act as a memory processing unit that works alongside Google’s tensor processing unit, while the second would be a new TPU built specifically for AI workloads. The reported split between memory support and compute support…

OpenAI’s reported agreement to spend more than $20 billion on Cerebras chips over three years is one of the clearest signs yet that AI infrastructure is now a capital market story as much as a technology story. The agreement, first reported by The Information, is the double of an earlier $10 billion commitment OpenAI made in January, and it comes as the company faces mounting pressure to serve over 800 million weekly users while keeping compute costs under control. The deal also reportedly gives OpenAI a minority equity stake through warrants and includes a $1 billion upfront deposit to help…

Apple’s first foldable iPhone has hit a wall. Engineering problems discovered during early test production have been found to be more complex than the company expected, and multiple sources now say the device may not ship until 2027, pushing it well past the September 2026 window that had been circling in supply chain reports for months. According to Nikkei Asia, the issues emerged during engineering verification testing, a critical phase where a new design is validated before it can move toward mass production. As such, component suppliers have reportedly been informed that production schedules may need to be adjusted. The…

OpenAI has urged attorneys general in California and Delaware to investigate Elon Musk for alleged “improper and anti-competitive behavior” tied to his companies X and xAI. The request, detailed in a letter from OpenAI strategy chief Jason Kwon, accuses Musk of using his platform X to harm the ChatGPT maker’s business and hiring efforts. This move has now added a new regulatory dimension to what is already one of the most consequential legal disputes in the AI industry, especially as a high-profile trial between the two companies draws near. What OpenAI Is Alleging In the letter seen by CNBC, OpenAI’s…

Aria Networks, a Palo Alto-based networking startup founded in January 2025, has raised $125 million in its first funding round to build what it describes as the first AI-native network designed from the ground up to maximize token efficiency. The round was backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Eclipse Ventures. With the announcement of this funding came another announcement of the general availability of Deep Networking, Aria Networks’ core platform for AI infrastructure. What Is Deep Networking? Deep Networking is built on five pillars – AI-optimized hardware and hardened SONiC, fine-grained end-to-end telemetry, intelligent agents…