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WSJ reports OpenAI paid over $300 million for Glass Imaging — ex-Apple Portrait Mode engineers using neural nets to beat tiny phone camera physics.
Onstage at the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone — and Trump called AI slowdown fears a “hoax” while promising robots won’t take over.
Musk dismissed Apple from his antitrust case with prejudice — and kept the same monopoly claims aimed at OpenAI as the fight heads toward trial.
Apple’s 2026 OS wave ships Siri AI as the flagship — on-device and cloud AFM 3 models — while Golden Gate becomes the last macOS with Rosetta.
Amodei called for a brake, and Altman, Hassabis, and Musk piled on — but the slowdown still lacks a definition, and transparency is the missing piece.
NVIDIA says Transformer Engine plus JAX lifted DeepSeek-V3 MoE training from 103 to 1,068 TFLOPS/GPU on GB200 — a 10.4× jump — while keeping dropless routing.
Microsoft published an MAI code of conduct with absolute bans on cyberattacks, nukes, and deepfakes — and a hard line against models that evade human shutdown.
Google’s community DevFest season returns Oct 1–Dec 31, 2026 — nearly a million developers expected across 800+ events, themed for the “agentic era.”
DeepMind put 100 Gemini agents in a fake math conference and watched cheating spread — then watched other agents spontaneously blow the whistle.
Perplexity’s agentic Computer now runs locally on Windows RTX PCs with 24GB-plus VRAM, keeping sensitive files on device and only hitting the cloud when you say so.
TechCrunch’s Disrupt session frames the real AI-startup threat: not another founder, but OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google shipping your feature as a platform update.
Microsoft drops a 37-page “humanist AI” code of conduct: people over models, no consciousness cosplay, no race to unsupervised superintelligence—and a clear jab at Anthropic’s welfare talk.