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OpenAI has slowed parts of its AI development to strengthen security and safeguards. The company paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks on its latest deployment-focused models and delayed its largest planned frontier RL run.
Kuaishou is spinning out its Kling AI video-generation model into a separately financed company, attracting investment from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and other institutions at an implied valuation of $18 billion. Kling has surpassed 100 million global users and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, but continues to generate substantial losses because of compute costs.
NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge, a compact world model designed for on-device robot control. The 4B omni-model includes a 2B NVIDIA Nemotron-based reasoner to support adaptive policies across sensors, environments, and tasks.
Anthropic reports that Claude models designed working protein binders and completed a chemical-analysis task in minutes. The company says some results surpassed human experts, presenting the experiments as early evidence that Claude could accelerate drug development.
Alibaba’s profit plunged after it raised quarterly capital expenditure for AI to nearly $10 billion. The report also examines Meta’s growing role as a Microsoft AI customer and Castelion’s plans to scale hypersonic missile production.
Mayfield has invested more than $3 billion in AI companies, often before founders have built products or formally incorporated. Managing Partner Navin Chaddha explains the firm’s belief in AI as a potential “100x opportunity” and its decision to remain focused on early-stage investing.
Tesla’s Austin robotaxi service appears to be operating without human safety monitors. An independent monitoring project recorded 170 rides across 54 vehicles over the past two weeks, all without a monitor onboard.
Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% to $1.54 billion in the June quarter as capital spending reached $9.98 billion. The spending reflects a major investment in AI infrastructure and cloud capabilities rather than a deterioration in core business performance.
SMIC reported its first $3 billion quarter, with revenue rising 36.1% year over year and net profit nearly tripling to $479.2 million. The Chinese foundry is also raising wafer prices as US sanctions strengthen demand from China’s captive AI market.
The Spectral Neuron is a proposed ML primitive based on the largest eigenvalue of an input-conditioned matrix. The preprint develops its mathematical properties, initialization and training methods, and evaluates scalability on synthetic and real-world datasets.