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- China proposes export controls on its own AI models, chip designs and agents China proposed adding advanced AI technology, including models and chip designs, to its export-control list. What it means for open-weight users.
- Nvidia expands Nemotron with 3.5 Super VL and Bolt, open models for agents Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model with 12B active parameters and a 1M context, plus Bolt models for local use.
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios Meta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B open-weight multimodal model with 42B active parameters, built with Apple to run locally on two Mac Studios.
- Apple Intelligence heads to China in beta this month, powered by Alibaba's Qwen Tim Cook confirmed an Apple Intelligence beta in China this month using approved Alibaba Qwen models, without the new Siri.
- Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox that runs its Computer agent Perplexity open-sourced SPACE under Apache 2.0. It runs each agent task in a Firecracker microVM and held against 108 escape attempts.
- Anthropic embeds six METR researchers with near-employee access and no veto on findings Anthropic gave six researchers from evaluator METR employee-level access to its systems, and they can publish findings without Anthropic's approval.
- Kling 4.0 is fully available with 30-second clips, keyframes and built-in audio Kling 4.0 generates native 30-second video clips with up to 10 keyframes, multi-reference control and audio, now open to everyone.
- Microsoft finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model Microsoft AI completed pre-training on MAI-Base-2, a 2.8T parameter mixture-of-experts model with 80B active, claiming big compute efficiency gains.
- The EU sets out how it will fine ChatGPT and Gemini under the AI Act The EU published the rules for fining general-purpose AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini under the AI Act. Why legal teams should care.
- Anthropic made $16.8 billion last quarter and turned a profit ahead of its IPO Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue rose about 45% to $16.8B with an adjusted profit, earning $1.70 per $1 of compute. An IPO could come next month.
- Eight US states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT harmed children Iowa, Kansas and six other states sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached kids toward self-harm and misled users about safety.
- The FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents The FTC sent OpenAI and Anthropic 50-page civil investigative demands about recent AI safety incidents, safeguards and marketing.