Our teeny model muse ember is now on the efficient frontier,” Meta’s Alexandr Wang wrote. It still trails Haiku on one key coding test.

Baidu's ERNIE Evolve runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it made ERNIE-5.5-Flash up to six times faster on its own Kunlunxin chips.

Adobe signed a multi-year deal to build custom AI models trained on Disney's characters, extending its Imagineering work to Disney's film studio and ESPN.

Google is adding two TPU variants, the 8tx for confidential workloads and the 8i Max for long-context AI, Bloomberg News reported.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says an agentic Siri could arrive as early as next year. Siri chief Mike Rockwell may step down, and Apple is changing how it builds iOS 28.

Cisco is adding Anthropic's Claude Mythos to AI Defense to plan attacks on customers' own AI agents, with no open prompt access and every test logged.

I haven’t heard he’s done anything wrong,” Trump said of Huang, as a Megaspeed probe stalled after Nvidia’s lawyer stepped in.

ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps edits stable over 100 rounds and makes transparent assets, rolling out in China first.

Hardware engineering is getting its AI moment,” says Nominal’s CEO, as its Series C raises $240M at a $3B valuation.

Honda will build a $3B car plant in Ohio, its first new US assembly plant since 2008, to make up to 240,000 mostly hybrid vehicles a year from 2029.

Nvidia’s board has opened an independent inquiry after Jensen Huang admitted a relationship with a former Megaspeed executive linked to Chinese spying.

Developers can now add Google Maps to apps built in AI Studio by prompting Gemini, with a free demo key of 100 calls a day per API and no credit card.