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Alibaba's Happy Horse Takes the Top Spot on Global Text to Video Rankings, and the Western Video Generation Lead Is Gone
Alibaba launched Happy Horse Friday and watched it climb to the top of the global text to video rankings within hours. Shares rose 2.12 percent on the announcement. It is the second Chinese lab this week to land a model that the Western frontier cannot ignore.
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Models
DeepSeek V4 Arrives on Huawei Silicon, and the Western Compute Stack Has Its First Real Rival
A one trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 37 billion active parameters per token, a one million token context window, and an Apache 2.0 license. Trained for roughly $5.2 million on Huawei Ascend 950PR chips with no Nvidia hardware anywhere in the pipeline.
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Market & Funding
Q1 2026 Venture Funding Hits $300 Billion, and AI Alone Took $242 Billion of It
The largest quarter in venture capital history. AI took 80 percent of the total. Four of the five largest rounds ever recorded closed in a single three month window. Q1 alone equals roughly 70 percent of all venture spending in 2025.
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Industry
News Corp Licenses WSJ and the Post to Meta for $150 Million, and a Media Giant Declares Itself an AI Input
Fifty million dollars a year over three years for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, The Times, HarperCollins, and Dow Jones. News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has stopped pretending journalism is the business. He is running a data licensing company.
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Industry
The AI Nuclear Power Race Accelerates as Hyperscalers Move From Press Release to Reactor Contract
Meta has signed multi gigawatt nuclear power deals totaling up to 6.6 gigawatts. Indiana is now offering tax incentives for small modular reactor developers. Louisiana is suing the federal government to unblock the SMR market. The AI power bottleneck is no longer theoretical.
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Policy
Utah Lets AI Renew Prescriptions While Maine and Missouri Ban AI Therapy, and the First Real State Patchwork on Medical AI Is Forming
Utah has authorized AI to approve refills for 190 common medications including psychiatric drugs and birth control. Maine just sent an AI therapy ban to the governor. Missouri is advancing a similar ban with ten thousand dollar fines. The fifty state compliance map just got ugly.
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Models
Meta Launches Muse Spark, Its First Proprietary Frontier Model, and Quietly Walks Away From Open Source
Meta Superintelligence Labs, the division Alexandr Wang was hired nine months ago to build, unveiled Muse Spark on Wednesday. It is natively multimodal, it uses tools, it orchestrates multi agent workflows, and it is closed. The company that built the case for open weights just folded it.
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Models
OpenAI Launches $100 Pro Tier and GPT 5.3 Instant Mini, Quietly Building a Pricing Ladder for the Super App Era
Nine days after the GPT 5.4 launch, OpenAI added a one hundred dollar Pro tier with unlimited GPT 5.4 access and ten times the Codex usage of Plus. It also shipped GPT 5.3 Instant Mini as a new fallback model. The pricing ladder is forming in public.
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Opinion
When a Frontier Security Model Goes to Twelve Partners and Nobody Else, What Are We Building?
Project Glasswing gives Mythos Preview to twelve launch partners and over forty additional vetted organizations. There are good reasons for this. There are also questions worth asking about what kind of access economy frontier AI is becoming.
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Market & Funding
Anthropic Passes OpenAI in Revenue at $30 Billion Run Rate, and the Enterprise AI Crown Has a New Holder
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate tripled from nine billion dollars to thirty billion in four months, passing OpenAI. Enterprise customers spending a million dollars a year on Claude doubled to over a thousand. MCP crossed ninety seven million installs. The Claude Code bet is paying out.
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Models
Anthropic Unveils Claude Mythos Preview, Launches Project Glasswing With Apple, Microsoft, Google, AWS to Hunt Software Vulnerabilities
A new general purpose model restricted from public release. Anthropic says Mythos can chain low impact vulnerabilities into end to end exploits and has already flagged thousands of zero day issues across major operating systems and browsers.
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Policy
OpenAI Publishes Its AI Economy Blueprint, and the $852 Billion Company Proposes Robot Taxes, a Public Wealth Fund, and a Four Day Workweek
Six days after closing the largest funding round in history, OpenAI released a policy paper proposing a thirty two hour workweek pilot program, a shift of the tax burden from labor to capital, and an Alaska style sovereign wealth fund holding equity stakes in AI companies. The $852 billion company is telling governments how to restructure the economy.
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Market & Funding
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation
The largest round in OpenAI's history, led by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). The company reports $2.6 billion in monthly revenue and 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users.
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Research
DeepMind AlphaEvolve Has Been Quietly Recovering 0.7 Percent of Google's Worldwide Compute for Over a Year
The Gemini powered coding agent has discovered new mathematical structures and been deployed inside Google's infrastructure for over a year. A proof that frontier models can deliver compounding infrastructure efficiencies, not just chat completions.
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Models
OpenAI Unveils GPT 5.4 With One Million Token Context and a ChatGPT Super App That Combines Chat, Code, Search, and Agents
GPT 5.4 has a context window of one million tokens, scores 75 percent on the OSWorld V benchmark, and can execute multi step workflows autonomously. The new super app collapses ChatGPT's surfaces into one product for 900 million weekly users.
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Models
Google Releases Gemma 4 Open Model Family, 31B Variant Hits #3 on Arena Leaderboard
Four open weight models built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. The 31B model ranks as the third open model globally on the Arena AI text leaderboard under a permissive license.
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Market & Funding
xAI Closes $20 Billion Series E Backed by Nvidia and Cisco
xAI's largest round to date lands alongside Anthropic's separate $30 billion Series G. Together with OpenAI's $122 billion round, Q1 2026 AI venture deal value has reached $267.2 billion.
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