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Flapping Airplanes AI Startup Secures $1B Funding at $6B Valuation, Quadrupling Value in Months

Flapping Airplanes, a year-old AI research lab, raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital. The San Francisco startup, backed by Nvidia and Sequoia, aims to train AI models with less data and computing power while improving chip efficiency—despite having no product yet.

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Flapping Airplanes AI Startup Secures $1B Funding at $6B Valuation, Quadrupling Value in Months

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GM Doubles Down on AI and Autonomous Driving to Cut Development Time in Half

General Motors announced a sweeping technology overhaul at its GM Forward event, introducing OnStar AI assistant, hands-off autonomous driving by 2028, and AI-powered development tools that slash vehicle creation timelines from four to five years down to just over two. The move positions GM to compete directly with Tesla and fast-moving Chinese automakers.

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GM Doubles Down on AI and Autonomous Driving to Cut Development Time in Half

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New AI Method Gauges Reliability in Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Measuring Uncertainty for Each Patient

University of Pittsburgh researchers developed uncertainty-weighted learning for AI breast cancer diagnosis that provides confidence scores for individual patients. Using the Bridges-2 supercomputer, the team created a deep neural network that assesses diagnostic reliability alongside predictions, addressing critical concerns about AI trustworthiness in medical imaging.

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New AI Method Gauges Reliability in Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Measuring Uncertainty for Each Patient

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Groq's Next-Gen LPU Adopts 3D Stacked DRAM to Support Expanding AI Models

Groq is shifting its next-generation Language Processing Unit architecture from SRAM to 3D stacked DRAM technology. This strategic move prioritizes memory capacity over raw bandwidth speed, positioning the hardware to handle increasingly large AI models as the industry scales up model sizes.

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Groq's Next-Gen LPU Adopts 3D Stacked DRAM to Support Expanding AI Models

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Vultr and AMD Launch 20MW GPU Cluster in Chennai—India's Largest AMD Instinct Deployment

Vultr announced a 20MW AMD GPU cluster in Chennai featuring AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs with 288GB of HBM3E memory. This marks India's largest AMD Instinct deployment and positions Chennai alongside Springfield, Ohio as one of the world's largest AMD AI infrastructure sites, addressing growing demand for sovereign cloud infrastructure.

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Vultr and AMD Launch 20MW GPU Cluster in Chennai—India's Largest AMD Instinct Deployment

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Elon Musk Announces ASML Will Expedite Shipments to Terafab, Targets 2028 Volume Chip Production

Elon Musk revealed that ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are expediting deliveries to the ambitious Terafab facility in Texas. The joint SpaceX and Tesla venture targets volume chip production by Q3-Q4 2028, aiming to produce 1 terawatt of AI computing power annually—though Musk cautioned the timeline carries "big error bars."

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Elon Musk Announces ASML Will Expedite Shipments to Terafab, Targets 2028 Volume Chip Production

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Meta Keeps 11% of Nvidia GPUs Idle in Prometheus Supercluster to Prevent AI Training Failures

Meta revealed that over 11% of Nvidia GPUs in its Prometheus supercluster sit idle or dead as hot spares. The New Albany facility cut interruptions by 99% through redundancy, data parallelism, and checkpointing. The infrastructure improvements enable Meta to train models like Muse Wonder across nearly 1 million GPUs.

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Meta Keeps 11% of Nvidia GPUs Idle in Prometheus Supercluster to Prevent AI Training Failures

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SpaceX Locks in $40 Billion GPU Financing Deal with Apollo to Power AI Infrastructure Expansion

SpaceX secured a $40 billion financing deal with Apollo Global Management to lease AI chips and data center equipment over five years. The agreement marks the largest committed GPU financing as SpaceX's Super Intelligence business now generates $7.6 billion in quarterly revenue, surpassing its traditional space operations.

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SpaceX Locks in $40 Billion GPU Financing Deal with Apollo to Power AI Infrastructure Expansion

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Perplexity Computer Now Runs Entirely on Your Mac with Full Local AI Processing

Perplexity has launched a fully local version of its Computer app for Mac, allowing AI workflows to run entirely on-device without cloud dependency. Available to Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers, the update requires Apple Silicon Macs with at least 36GB of RAM and supports Qwen 3.6 and PPLX Pro models for private, offline AI computing.

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Perplexity Computer Now Runs Entirely on Your Mac with Full Local AI Processing

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Cephalon's Lucy AI Studio merges local AI processing with private cloud storage in compact device

Cephalon unveiled the Lucy AI Studio, a compact mini PC and NAS combo that brings local AI processing and private cloud storage into one device. Powered by AMD Ryzen AI processors with up to 192GB unified memory, it runs large AI models locally while addressing privacy concerns about cloud-based AI systems.

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Cephalon's Lucy AI Studio merges local AI processing with private cloud storage in compact device

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Inception Mercury 3 Diffusion Model Claims 8X Speed Advantage Over GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5

Redwood City AI lab Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large language model that generates more than 1000 tokens per second on Nvidia chips. The model outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across benchmarks while running four to eight times faster, with a one million token context window and launch pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens.

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Inception Mercury 3 Diffusion Model Claims 8X Speed Advantage Over GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5

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HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 to Run First LLMs on the Moon Aboard Astrolab FLIP Rover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is sending its Spaceborne Computer-4 to the lunar south pole aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover in late 2026. The mission will demonstrate the first large language models on the moon, enabling AI-driven autonomy for future space exploration. The 480-kilogram rover will test high-performance computing in extreme lunar conditions as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

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HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 to Run First LLMs on the Moon Aboard Astrolab FLIP Rover

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Vertiv Launches Guide to Help Enterprises Scale AI Infrastructure from Pilot to Production

Vertiv and Deloitte unveiled a comprehensive framework to address a critical enterprise challenge: moving AI workloads from experimentation to sustained production. The Designing Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Guide provides a workload-based approach to determine deployment locations and assess whether existing physical infrastructure can support AI at scale.

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Vertiv Launches Guide to Help Enterprises Scale AI Infrastructure from Pilot to Production

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Slashes AI Costs by 70% but Independent Tests Reveal Accuracy Trade-Offs

Chinese AI startup MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, delivering 70% cost reduction and 3X faster inference speeds for enterprise workflows and software development. Independent benchmarks show competitive performance against DeepSeek at lower costs, but Artificial Analysis found the model generates incorrect answers rather than acknowledging uncertainty.

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Slashes AI Costs by 70% but Independent Tests Reveal Accuracy Trade-Offs

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doubleAI's Maxwell code execution model slashes compute costs by 67% as Nvidia and Dell invest $220M

Tel Aviv startup doubleAI, led by Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua, has launched Maxwell—the first code execution model that rewrites machine code during runtime to optimize software efficiency. The AI model that cuts compute costs helped one early customer reduce spending by 67% while doubling inference speed for LTX's multimodal models.

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doubleAI's Maxwell code execution model slashes compute costs by 67% as Nvidia and Dell invest $220M

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