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CoreWeave signed a deal to power Anthropic's Claude inference, making Anthropic its ninth major AI model provider customer. The announcement follows Meta's $21 billion infrastructure commitment to CoreWeave, underscoring the GPU shortage and infrastructure bottleneck driving AI deployment.

CNBC Tech · 1 min read Industry

ChatGPT's voice mode runs on GPT-4o (April 2024 cutoff), not the latest frontier model, despite users expecting the smartest available AI. Willison highlights the perception gap when different interfaces access different capability tiers.

Simon Willison · 2 min read Community

Trump's push to expand US AI chip sales globally is hitting bureaucratic roadblocks at the export licensing agency: staffing shortages, licensing delays, and unclear policy direction are hampering multi-billion-dollar export approvals.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Policy

DeepSeek is hiring data center engineers in Inner Mongolia as it scales operations using Nvidia Blackwell chips—hardware officially banned from export to China. The move underscores how Chinese AI labs are circumventing U.S. sanctions to build frontier compute capacity.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Industry

NVIDIA open-sourced AITune, a Python toolkit that automatically benchmarks and selects the fastest inference backend (TensorRT, Torch Inductor, TorchAO) for any PyTorch model without manual rewriting. Handles Computer Vision, NLP, and generative AI workloads on NVIDIA GPUs.

MarkTechPost · 6 min read Tools

Harvard neuroscientist Gabriel Kreiman's new AI lab is raising ~$100M to develop technology enabling perfect human memory recall. The venture, spun from Harvard, targets a sci-fi premise: offloading memory constraints.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Market

Step-by-step Colab tutorial for building a complete markerless 3D human kinematics pipeline: 2D pose estimation via RTMPose, multi-view triangulation, filtering, and biomechanical analysis with OpenSim. Covers environment setup, calibration, synchronization, and visualization of motion data from multi-camera video.

MarkTechPost · 11 min read Tools

OpenAI launched a $100/month Pro tier to match Claude's pricing, escalating the subscription war between frontier model providers.

BleepingComputer · 2 min read Industry