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Nvidia is building Nemotron 4 as a planned 1-trillion-parameter system.
A Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reporter tried to assemble an autonomous attack drone from off-the-shelf parts. The places where the attempt broke down tell a clearer story than the threat itself.
A presidential memorandum lets vetted US firms run surveillance and disruptive operations against foreign criminal groups. DOJ and DHS must approve each one, and a $1 million bond is forfeitable on violations.
The license-plate camera vendor is making case numbers mandatory for searches, but doesn't verify them and has not disclosed how well its automatic audit tool works.
A Miami demo by Lockheed Martin, Verizon and NVIDIA showed AI reading drone flight paths off unmodified commercial 5G spectrum, hinting at a 6G future where cell sites also act as sensors.
Torev Motors says its copper-and-steel motor passed third-party safety tests. A $5M round and defense-customer interest will decide whether it scales.
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) reached a $524 billion market cap 17 days after its $8.6 billion Shanghai IPO, surpassing Tencent. Tencent's quarterly capex jumped 176% in the same window.
A Singapore chip startup's $130M Series B bets that for AI agents, peak NPU throughput stops being the right measure: what matters is whether the CPU can keep up.
The acquisition gives every agent a Postgres-compatible database in its own sandbox, synced to a central store, trading centralized control for lower latency.
RAND's 2035 Taiwan wargame kept finding that data centers aren't the AI Achilles' heel; whoever fields and replaces more autonomous mass in a long fight holds the structural edge.
International gross transaction value jumped 61% in Q2 while China ride-hailing GTV rose 9.5%, as DiDi's 99 platform, its Brazilian ride-and-delivery unit, passed 60 million users and 99 Food hit 100 cities.
A rumored 17-project list for the Chinese AI lab's agent platform reportedly skips high-star "vase" (showcase/decorative) repos and favors small, mostly-unknown infrastructure tools. Vertical applications (industry-specific, e.g.