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Google DeepMind ships Nano Banana 2 Lite, fastest image model at $0.034 per 1K images
INDUSTRY
Natural-Language Prompts Outperform Code in Industrial LLM Tests
FUNDING
Meta and OpenAI alumni seek $400M for new AI lab Aire
BREAKING
Model Context Protocol Hits 97M Monthly SDK Downloads; Major Vendors Standardize on MCP as Agent Integration Layer
INDUSTRY
NVIDIA's Blackwell Software Stack Cuts Inference Costs 5x
CHIPS
AMD Confirms Low-Power Cores in Future Zen Processors, Following Intel's Heterogeneous Architecture Model
CHIPS
NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Integrates with Anthropic's Claude Science for Accelerated Biology Workflows
RESEARCH
Google Releases Zero-Shot Tabular Model but Hides Benchmark Data
POLICY
South Korea announces $1T+ AI, chip mega-investment led by Samsung, SK Hynix through 2035
FUNDING
OpenAI, Anthropic Confidentially File for IPOs; Race for 2026 Debuts at $1T+ Valuations
INDUSTRY
Elastic's Open-Source Agent Memory Hits 0.89 Recall@10 With Zero Leaks
INDUSTRY
ScarfBench Reveals AI Agents Fail at Hidden Deployment Stages
FUNDING
Aire, New AI Lab Backed by Meta and OpenAI Alumni, Seeks $400 Million in Funding
FUNDING
Omnea Launches Future Founders Fund: $250K Seed Checks for Employees Turned Entrepreneurs
MARKET
NVIDIA Inference Stack Reduces Token Costs by Up to 5x on Blackwell in One Month
POLICY
Trump Admin Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models
BREAKING
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite ($0.034/1K images, 4s latency) and Gemini Omni Flash video API
CHIPS
G.Skill AMD EXPO ULL RAM hits $1,099; 57–79% premium over standard EXPO for tight timings
BREAKING
Five DeepMind Researchers Exit Alphabet to Anthropic and OpenAI in Single Week