Daily Brief Archive

Moonshot open-sources Kimi K2.5 with support for up to 100 sub-agent collaboration and discloses public API pricing; OpenAI launches Prism, a free research collaboration workspace powered by GPT-5.2, now accessible to all ChatGPT users; The EU initiates DMA procedures requiring Google to open Gemini service interfaces and search data access to competitors

Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a reasoning model with over one trillion parameters, and opens its API; Microsoft rolls out the 3nm Maia 200 inference chip on Azure; NVIDIA invests $2 billion in CoreWeave targeting over 5GW of AI factories by 2030

Shanghai Jiao Tong University releases 8B-parameter optical vertical model Optics GPT and establishes academic-industry alliance; OpenAI reports GPT-5.2 Pro achieves 31% solve rate on FrontierMath; remote proctoring platform ExamRoom.AI suspected of leaking biometric data and source code, now reportedly sold on black market

Malicious VS Code extensions installed nearly 1.49 million times exfiltrated source code; Google open-sourced UCP to standardize agent shopping, checkout, and payment flows; Databricks raised an additional $1.8 billion in debt, increasing total debt to $7.05 billion

Inferact completes $150M seed round at $800M valuation to advance vLLM commercialization and serverless inference; Sugon Technology's STAR Market IPO accepted with plans to raise 6B yuan for 5th/6th-gen AI chips; Google DeepMind launches D4RT enabling 2D-to-4D reconstruction with 18–300x speedup

Baidu launches 2.4 trillion parameter natively multimodal Ernie 5.0 and opens Qianfan platform for API access; Alibaba reportedly preparing IPO for AI chip unit T-Head starting with restructuring and employee equity; Google Cloud achieves over 6,000 tokens per GPU per second and ~10ms ITL for MoE inference on A4X+GB200 NVL72 with NVIDIA Dynamo

OpenEvidence completes $250 million Series D, valuation rises to $12 billion and claims coverage among approximately 40% of U.S. doctors; OpenAI discloses compute capacity growing from 0.2GW to 1.9GW between 2023 and 2025, with $22 billion in spending and $9 billion in revenue in 2025; Yelp acquires AI lead management platform Hatch for $270 million in cash to strengthen SaaS and customer acquisition capabilities for local businesses

Humans& completes $480 million seed round, valued at $4.5 billion; ServiceNow signs three-year agreement with OpenAI to integrate GPT-5.2 into enterprise workflows; Jueyi Stars open-sources Step3-VL-10B and discloses full-parameter training on 1.2T data

ClickHouse completes $400 million funding, valuation exceeds $15 billion, and strengthens investment in AI real-time analytics infrastructure; Google fixes indirect prompt injection vulnerability in Gemini calendar invites that could lead to leakage of private meeting information; Microsoft Azure Functions support for MCP servers goes GA with built-in OBO authentication and streamable HTTP transport