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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M-token context beta and Agent Teams; EU Council agrees to advance AI Act simplification package, adjusting high-risk system deadlines to December 2, 2027 and August 2, 2028; AWS partners with Cerebras to deploy chips in data centers and plans inference service launch in late 2026
Perplexity launches Personal Computer with Mac mini as resident task executor and releases Search/Agent/Sandbox/Embeddings APIs; WeChat explores in-house model with 2026 rollout planned for Mini Program ecosystem; Nature Medicine reports cognitive layer architecture outperforms clinicians in 227-participant double-blind trial and correlates with symptom improvement in 8,920-user session analysis
Google completes $32B cash acquisition of Wiz and integrates it into Google Cloud while maintaining multi-cloud support; NVIDIA open-sources Nemotron 3 Super 120B with 1M token context and up to 5x throughput on Blackwell; NVIDIA invests $2B in Nebius to drive deployment of over 5GW of NVIDIA systems by 2030
OpenAI acquires open-source evaluation and red-teaming platform Promptfoo to strengthen agent safety and compliance; NVIDIA partners with Thinking Machines Lab to deploy at least 1 gigawatt of Vera Rubin systems and invests, with deployment planned for early next year; Gemini launches multiple generation and retrieval features in Workspace, with Sheets achieving 70.48% success rate on SpreadsheetBench
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork and announces Agent 365 will go commercial on May 1 at $15/user/month; Anthropic sues the U.S. Department of Defense over its 'supply chain risk' designation, triggering a six-month federal directive to discontinue Claude-related technologies; UK-based Nscale raises $2B in Series C funding, reaching a $14.6B valuation with participation from NVIDIA and others
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 with 75% OSWorld-Verified success rate and 1 million token context support; OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski resigns over Pentagon collaboration deal; Security report reveals 42,089 exposed OpenClaw instances with CVSS 8.8 vulnerability
OpenAI launches Codex Security: scanning over 1.2 million commits in 30 days, identifying 792 critical vulnerabilities and assigning 14 CVEs; Google open-sources gws to unify Workspace APIs with MCP compatibility, gaining over 14,000 GitHub stars; audit reveals 45.83% of Shadow API endpoints fail model fingerprint verification, involving at least 116 papers relying on unreliable interfaces
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply chain risk and requires contractors to stop using Claude; NVIDIA halts H200 production for China and shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin; Clinejection discloses prompt injection combined with Actions cache poisoning leading to theft of NPM production release keys
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 and opens access to Plus/Team/Pro and API users, reporting a 33% reduction in single-statement error rate compared to GPT-5.2; YuanLab releases and claims to have open-sourced Yuan 3.0 Ultra, a 1 trillion parameter MoE model with 68.8 billion activated parameters and 49% improvement in pretraining efficiency; IREN orders over 50,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs, expanding its AI cluster to approximately 150,000 GPUs with a 50% capacity increase