Weekly AI News
NVIDIA and Emerald AI partnered with major energy companies to develop AI factories that connect to the power grid faster, generate AI tokens, and operate as flexible energy assets supporting grid stability.
Read more →The US Treasury Department's AI Transformation Office and Financial Stability Oversight Council launched the AI Innovation Series, a public-private initiative to support financial system resilience during rapid AI adoption.
Read more →OpenAI quietly shut down the Sora public API with 30 days' notice, citing unsustainable inference costs for video generation at scale. The move forces a sector-wide recalibration on which AI generation workloads are economically viable.
Read more →MCP crossed 97 million installs globally, signalling its transition from experimental standard to foundational agentic infrastructure. Every major AI provider now ships MCP-compatible tooling.
Read more →Anthropic released Claude's "computer use" and Dispatch capabilities, enabling AI agents to autonomously perform tasks across systems and execute long-running operations asynchronously — a major step in agentic AI workflows.
Read more →Google released TurboQuant, which compresses LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x with up to 8x speedup and zero accuracy loss. Google DeepMind also unveiled Lyria 3 Pro, its most advanced music generation model.
Read more →Meta eliminated approximately 700 positions across Reality Labs, recruiting, sales, and Facebook as part of a strategic AI refocus. The day before, Meta announced an executive stock programme potentially worth up to $921 million per executive over five years to retain AI talent.
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