Daily Brief Archive

Xiaomi open-sources 1.02T-parameter MiMo-V2.5-Pro surpassing DeepSeek-V4, achieves chip compatibility with 7 vendors on day one; Former DeepMind scientist David Silver secures $1.1B seed round, setting European record for autonomous-learning AI development; China NDRC halts Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus, establishing precedent for forced reverse M&A

DeepSeek V4 open-sources 1.6T-parameter model fully optimized for Huawei Ascend, outperforms GPT-5.4 in coding with API pricing just 1/9th of GPT-5.5; Google plans up to $40 billion investment in Anthropic, whose secondary market valuation reaches $1 trillion; Cohere acquires Aleph Alpha to form $20 billion entity backed by Canadian and German governments to advance European AI sovereignty

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, scores 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, priced twice that of its predecessor; Tencent open-sources HunYuan Hy3 preview 295B-parameter model, SWE-bench score jumps from 53% to 74.4%; SK Hynix Q1 operating profit rises fivefold to $25.4 billion as HBM demand continues to surge

Google launches eighth-generation TPU chips and announces $185 billion annual capital expenditure; DeepSeek initiates first external funding round with valuation potentially exceeding $100 billion; OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 tops image generation leaderboard with a 241-point lead

Amazon commits up to $25 billion additional investment in Anthropic and secures over $100 billion in AWS spending; SpaceX may acquire Cursor for $60 billion; Google's Deep Research Max scores 93.3% on DeepSearchQA, surpassing GPT-5.4

Kimi K2.6 open-sources 1T-parameter MoE model supporting 300 collaborative sub-agents; GitHub suspends Copilot new registrations due to runaway compute costs from AI agents; Recursive Superintelligence raises $500M at $4B valuation just four months after founding

Honor robot completes half marathon in 50:26, breaking human world record; US NSA continues using Anthropic Mythos despite DoD blacklist; National Data Bureau proposes token-based dataset trading model

Google open-sources Gemma 4, AIME math score surges from 20.8% to 89.2%; three OpenAI executives leave on the same day and Sora shuts down; Anthropic confirms leak of 500,000 lines of Claude source code exposing experimental features

Cursor in talks to raise $2B funding at over $50B valuation; Cerebras resubmits IPO filing with $510M revenue in 2025 turning profitable; Agibot rolls out 10,000th general-purpose robot and unveils 'One Body, Three Minds' full-stack architecture