Frontier AI faces pricing reckoning as token volume explodes 25-fold — mid-tier models deliver 90% of flagship capability at one-sixth the cost

As frontier AI developers push for cost savings as much as intelligence enhancements, new models push the boundaries of the pareto frontier, with even small advantages crowning new kings.

G42 gave up Huawei, then let Washington watch its data centres. Majority US ownership is reportedly next.
G42 gave up Huawei, then let Washington watch its data centres. Majority US ownership is reportedly next.

Executives at Abu Dhabi’s G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies, Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the firm races to guarantee access to advanced chips beyond next year. Alex Dooler, Zainab Fattah and Dines…

UK startup AI Score raises $5.4M to scale its enterprise AI governance platform

London-based AI governancecompany AI Score has raised $5.4 million in seed funding to further develop itsplatform for managing the use of generative and agentic AI acrossorganisations. The round was l…

DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre

DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data centre, according to Bloomberg. Neither the size of the order nor the chip model has been disclosed, and DeepSeek has not confirmed the plan. The data centre has been reported since …

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe
Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe

A proprietary trading firm has just signed one of the largest AI cloud contracts of the year. Jane Street is committing roughly $13bn over five years to Crusoe, the data centre company, for clusters of AI chips and the infrastructure around them. The t…

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived

OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do le…

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform

Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.

Nvidia PAIR utility joins every GPU in your home into a cluster for agentic AI tasks — tool uses spare cycles to keep agent swarms from hammering one GPU

Nvidia’s Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.

Nvidia confirms $12.93BN purchase of Hugging Face

Nvidia has today confirmed its acquisition of open-source AI model repository Hugging Face for $12.93bn, as it makes a big bet on open-source AI models and continues to plough billions into the broade…