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- Week in review #42
California enacts broad new AI employment laws
California enacted new AI legislation impacting employers, prohibiting the use of AI for emotional surveillance and requiring human oversight in disciplinary decisions. In industry news, Meta launched Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run on advanced consumer hardware. - Week in review #40
Mistral AI secures €3B, valued at over €21B
European AI firm Mistral AI announced a €3 billion Series D funding round, propelling its valuation to over €21 billion. In the US, nearly half of all small employer firms are now utilizing AI, with 71% reporting increased productivity as a direct result. - Week in review #35
AWS and NVIDIA expand GPU partnership for 3 million units
Hyperscalers are pouring trillions into AI infrastructure, underscored by a massive new AWS and NVIDIA partnership to deploy millions of GPUs. Meanwhile, the EU AI Act's new enforcement powers are becoming applicable, creating significant compliance hurdles for the entire industry. - Week in review #30
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, Meta drive AI price war to $4
A wave of new, powerful AI models from major labs has triggered a fierce price war, drastically lowering the cost of advanced intelligence. Meanwhile, a surge in venture capital for robotics and a global push for regulation signal a market rapidly moving from experimentation to industrial scale. - Week in review #29
OpenAI, xAI, Meta cut AI model prices by 80%
A fierce price war erupted as major labs launched powerful new AI models at a fraction of legacy costs. Meanwhile, tech giants signaled their long-term commitment with plans for a staggering $725 billion in infrastructure spending for 2026. - Week in review #28
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6, xAI releases Grok 4.5 models
OpenAI's public release of its GPT-5.6 model family marks a significant acceleration in the AI arms race, with new agentic and voice capabilities set to drive adoption. Meanwhile, the staggering scale of infrastructure investment faces growing challenges, as a new report reveals nearly 90% of firms deploying AI agents have suffered security breaches. - Week in review #27
South Korea announces $974B AI and chip industrial plan
This week, the AI industry balanced major model releases with increasing government influence, highlighted by OpenAI's restricted GPT-5.6 launch. Meanwhile, unprecedented investment continues to reshape the hardware landscape, from South Korea's massive semiconductor plan to custom chip designs. - Week in review #25
US Commerce suspends Anthropic Fable 5, Mythos 5 models
Vast capital commitments defined the week, as hyperscalers projected a staggering $3 trillion investment in AI infrastructure over the next three years. Meanwhile, a U.S. government directive suspending advanced models from Anthropic underscored the growing geopolitical tensions surrounding AI development. - Week in review #19
Anthropic forms $1.5B finance JV, faces Pentagon ban
Anthropic stormed Wall Street with a $1.5 billion joint venture and ten ready-made financial agents, while the Pentagon signed AI deals with eight tech giants and pointedly left Anthropic off the list. The week crystallised a strange new reality: one company can simultaneously be the most wanted partner on Wall Street and the most unwanted in Washington.
- Week in review #17
Amazon commits $25B to Anthropic, total now $33B
Google bet the enterprise on agents while DeepSeek dropped a new open-source flagship on the same morning. Meanwhile, the capital flowing into frontier AI reached numbers that make last year's mega-rounds look modest.