Zoha Imdad Ali

OpenAI is in early talks with investors at a $1.2 trillion valuation, the FT reports, 41% above March and three days after Sam Altman shelved the IPO on safety grounds.

Firmus is pitching a A$7 billion (US$5 billion) ASX IPO for late October, Bloomberg reports: 900 MW contracted, OpenAI anchoring two Malaysian sites, Nvidia in Batam.

Reports of DeepMind coding research moving to California raise questions about London’s AI cluster. TECHi examines the evidence and Google’s response.

King’s Cross shows how AI labs turn proximity into economic infrastructure, tightening demand for talent and offices while remote hiring limits the premium.

A noRecognition pattern reportedly fooled one surveillance camera, but its public benchmarks remain simulated and the field-test evidence is not yet available.

OpenAI says Astra may reach its Critical cyber threshold, but key test results remain private. Here is what the disclosure proves—and what it does not.

Meta AI can now use email and calendar context for recurring tasks. Here is what to test before granting primary-account access and trusting its research.

Upper90 will lend General Compute up to $400 million secured by SambaNova inference chips, not Nvidia GPUs. Why inference silicon as loan collateral is an untested bet.

Akash set a $5M compute-spend record and routes 1.7B AI tokens a day, yet AKT sits ~94% below its high. Inside crypto's AI-compute value-capture problem.

Google's Ironwood TPU has been generally available since April, yet there's still no public per-hour price. What that silence reveals about AI inference costs.

DeepSeek retires the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner model names at 15:59 UTC on July 24. Migrate to deepseek-v4-flash and mind the thinking-mode cost catch.

Grayscale's amended TAO filing bars the trust from staking. Under dTAO, emissions follow staked TAO into subnet pools — so a spot wrapper sits outside the loop.

Coinbase Business can now accept USDC from AI agents over x402. The on-chain record shows a crypto-native payer cohort, not commercial demand.

OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA/ServiceNow, and Google shipped enterprise agent platforms in a month — and disagree on what the product is. The market-structure read for buyers.

OpenAI's Presence platform productizes agent governance — policies, guardrails, simulations. What its FDE-led model and 75% claim mean before you sign a pilot.

llama.cpp b10075 connects browser agents, conversation controls, leaner DSV4 state saves, and Qualcomm Hexagon support in one local AI runtime update.

Claude Code 2.1.216 targets permission drift across resumed agents, isolated worktrees, rewind, and sandbox controls. Here is what teams should test.