Daily Brief Archive

Huawei unveils Tao Law replacing geometric scaling with time scaling, targeting equivalent 1.4nm by 2031; DeepSeek V4-Flash tops global LLM leaderboard with 3.43 trillion weekly token calls; Microsoft revokes engineers' Claude Code access due to token costs exceeding salaries, shifts to Copilot

Anthropic's three unreleased models Mythos-1/Opus 4.8/Sonnet 4.8 exposed on the same day, with Mythos-1 demonstrating far superior vulnerability detection capabilities; multiple internal test variants of GPT-5.6 discovered, suggesting a June release; NextEra acquires Dominion Energy for $67 billion, forming the largest power merger in U.S. history to meet AI data center energy demands

OpenAI Codex platform accidentally leaks GPT-5.5 and multiple unreleased models, exposing parallel advancements in agents, new architectures, and life sciences; White House approves $9 billion in secret funding to build AI infrastructure for intelligence agencies; DeepSeek V4-Pro API permanently cuts prices by 75%, becoming the lowest-priced among mainstream frontier models

DeepSeek advances 70 billion yuan financing targeting AGI, valuation could reach $45 billion; Anthropic Project Glasswing discovers over 10,000 high-risk vulnerabilities in first month, prompting emergency security meetings by Japanese government; Zhipu AI launches GLM-5.1 high-speed API at 400 tokens/s, setting new global API speed record

Nvidia Q1 revenue hits $81.6B, up 85% YoY; data center networking income surges 199%; Anthropic projects Q2 revenue of $10.9B,有望 achieve first profitability, paying SpaceX $1.25B monthly for compute; Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max, ranked fifth globally, capable of 35-hour autonomous operation completing 1,158 tool calls

Google I/O launches Gemini 3.5 Flash (4x speed, half cost), Gemini Omni world model, and Gemini Spark personal agent; Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead pretraining research; Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 preview ranks as top domestic model on Arena

Elon Musk loses $150 billion OpenAI lawsuit due to statute of limitations, clearing path for OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO; Cursor launches Composer 2.5 and partners with SpaceXAI to train larger model, achieving 10x efficiency; Decart raises $300 million at nearly $4 billion valuation, launching real-time world model line with sub-30ms latency

Google I/O 2026 to launch Gemini 4.0, Android XR glasses, and Aluminium OS on May 19; Grok V9 completes training with 1.5T parameters, expected in 3-4 weeks; Publicis acquires LiveRamp for $2.5B to strengthen agentic AI data capabilities