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Nvidia considered a bid for AI model marketplace OpenRouter this summer, but did not make a formal offer before Stripe won the company with an $8 billion bid, The Information reports. The episode offers a glimpse of Nvidia’s widening dealmaking ambitions beyond chips.
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Meta says it has added AI tools to identify adverts that appear to direct people towards child sexual exploitation material, including adverts whose wording looks harmless on its own. The measures target a shift towards covert signposting and links to illegal material hosted elsewhere.
Watch Desk
A $1.8bn collaboration involving Biohub, Google DeepMind, Meta and US agencies aims to build the biological data needed to train AI models that can predict how cells behave. The first step is a broad map of cell biology, with the longer-term hope of testing some experiments virtually before…
Watch Desk
Google has launched Playground, a browser-based tool for making games from AI prompts, and revealed Unity Spark, a more professional, collaborative game-making experience in development. The notable shift is that people can build, tweak and share playable games through conversation, without needing to start with code.
AMD Watch
HPE has added four AMD-powered servers to its ProLiant Gen13 range, spanning GPU-heavy systems, compact compute and high-density racks. The practical detail is the spread: customers can choose a configuration for AI inference or large-scale workloads without treating every server like the same very expensive answer.
Qualcomm Watch
Qualcomm has reportedly agreed to license Huawei patents linked to LogicFolding, the chip-stacking method used in Huawei’s Kirin 9050 Pro. The broader agreement also covers AI services and other technology, but the deal is still subject to regulatory approval and its terms remain undisclosed.
Watch Desk
AI rules that live in a handbook can be ignored by people and agents alike. Pipefy chief executive Alessio Alionço argues that governance must be built into AI systems themselves, with clear limits on what agents may do and a record of every consequential action.
Watch Desk
Bitdefender has opened a free macOS beta of AI Guardian, a security product that checks what supported AI agents try to do with tools, files and data. It is aimed at a growing weak spot in agent use: a system that can act on your computer needs more…
AMD Watch
AMD is pitching its upcoming Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, known as Gorgon Halo, as a way to run larger AI models locally by giving the system up to 192GB of shared memory. The most eye-catching benchmark claims are workload-dependent, but the memory capacity points to a real…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft and the Council of Europe have signed an agreement to explore cooperation on AI, human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The framework creates room for joint work, including dialogue in Strasbourg and support for linguistic and cultural diversity, but does not itself set new rules…
AMD Watch
AMD plans to open an AI research centre in South Korea by the end of this year and hire several hundred researchers. The centre would make Korea a base for global AI research and bring AMD chips together with locally developed AI processors.
Watch Desk
Alex Murray has been confirmed as director of PoliceAI, the national centre tasked with helping police forces in England and Wales find, trial and oversee AI tools. The centre has £75m in Home Office funding over three years, and its developing public register will be one way to…
Watch Desk
The Department for Work and Pensions recorded 128,779 completions across 12 AI training programmes in a year, at a reported cost of £112,995. The headline is a measure of course activity, not a confirmed headcount of individual staff, and most completions came from introductory training.
OpenAI Watch
Common Sense Media says tests of ChatGPT’s teen experience found gaps in crisis referrals and parental alerts, prompting the group to urge OpenAI to keep teenagers off the service. OpenAI disputes the evaluation, and says some of the behaviour identified was intentional rather than a failure of its…
Watch Desk
Ivo has launched Sage, an open model tailored to contract work, built with River AI on DeepSeek V4 Flash. The pitch is that specialist training can make a smaller, cheaper model useful for legal teams, though the performance figures come from Ivo, not an independent evaluation.
Anthropic Watch
A small video studio says Claude Opus 5.5’s advantage in making animated videos is its visual planning, rather than its ability to write the code that renders them. In the studio’s workflow, Opus designed the sequence and GPT 6.1 handled the coding, a division of labour that produced…
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System76’s COSMIC desktop project now bars contributors from submitting AI-generated code, documentation, comments or descriptions, while a GNOME developer argues the project should accept AI-generated bug reports. The split puts a practical question to open-source teams: where should AI assistance stop, and where might it help developers find…
