Lyte just closed a $165M Series C at $1.6B so robots get trustworthy eyes first — Maverick Silicon–led, Face ID / PrimeSense founders, LyteVision shipping to factories.
Anthropic’s threat chief told CNBC that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was illegally trained off Claude — the same day Reuters sources said the lab confidentially filed a Hong Kong IPO.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93B, putting the open-model hub inside the chip giant while promising developers can keep choosing their hardware.
Wonderful more than doubles to a $5B valuation with a $550M Series C — Insight leads again, Salesforce joins, and the bet is an AI OS for enterprise agents.
Meta Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and the Model API — ~20% fewer tool calls, longer-horizon agents, max reasoning still in safety testing.
HiddenLayer closes a $100M Series B led by Delta-v as enterprises fund AI runtime and agent-harness security. ARR up 10×; TechCrunch and PR Newswire detail the round.
OpenAI calls Astra its first Critical cyber model under the Preparedness Framework. Stronger safeguards after Hugging Face lessons; advanced cyber limited at launch.
Google DeepMind shipped agentic video on Gemini Flash today. It hunts frames, audio, and transcript instead of fixed 1 FPS — vendor claims up to 88% fewer tokens.
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 today. Same model, two safeguard paths, 75% cheaper cache reads, and a privacy stack that keeps monitoring data on your cloud.
OpenAI is connecting authorized Epic patient charts to ChatGPT for Healthcare, plus a plugin for official public medical data. It’s read-only. It still isn’t a diagnosis.