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NVIDIA and AWS plan to deploy approximately 1 million NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2027 to expand agent-style AI compute capacity; The White House releases a national AI legislative framework proposing federal law to preempt state-level regulation, covering issues including data centers and AI fraud; Unitree Technology's IPO on the STAR Market is accepted, planning to raise 4.202 billion yuan and disclosing a 2025 net profit of 600 million yuan
Xiaomi launches MiMo-V2-Pro with over 1T parameters and 1M context support, API starts at $1 per million input tokens; OpenAI plans to acquire Astral to enhance Codex, which now has over 2 million weekly active users; TrendForce projects 2026 foundry revenue to grow 24.8% to approximately $218.8 billion, with TSMC raising prices for 5/4nm and below nodes
Nvidia receives Beijing approval to resume H200 sales to China and reports receiving orders; a Groq inference chip variant is expected to launch in May; Google upgrades Gemini3 DeepThink, reporting HLE 48.4%, ARC-AGI-2 84.6%, and Codeforces Elo 3455; MiniMax releases M2.7, claiming it can automate 30%–50% of the reinforcement learning development pipeline
IBM completes $11 billion acquisition of Confluent and integrates Kafka data streams into watsonx and other product lines; OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini/nano, with nano priced as low as $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens; Rakuten open-sources Rakuten AI 3.0 (~700B-parameter MoE) under Apache 2.0 license
Meta signs up to $27B five-year compute deal with Nebius, starting delivery of $12B dedicated capacity in early 2027; Nvidia launches Vera Rubin platform, projecting $1T in order prospects and ~3.3–5x MoE performance gains; Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, alleging use of ~100K articles for training and near-verbatim output generation
ByteDance releases Doubao-Seed 2.0 series covering Pro/Lite/Mini and Code models; Moonshot AI seeks up to $1 billion new funding at ~$18 billion valuation; study finds Google AI Overviews suppress evergreen content traffic while breaking news traffic surges 103%
Anthropic expands Claude 4.6 context to 1 million tokens without charging a long-context premium; the European Parliament approves the EU's signing of the first legally binding international AI governance treaty; Iranian drone attacks on Amazon data centers in the UAE and Bahrain cause service disruptions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
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