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Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy AI startup Decart for ~$7B, per the WSJ — topping its MGM deal. Decart makes software that runs AI across different chips, plus world models Lucy and Oasis. Anthropic reportedly walked away from a $6B bid last month.
OpenAI gave Codex an autocomplete brain: after each answer it drafts your next message — hit Tab to use it. Free in beta for Pro users, on by default. And its always-on 'dots' agents just went mobile, able to hand coding work over to Codex.
Alibaba's Qwen team dropped Turbo, an 8-step edition of its open-weight image model that used to need 40. Same 7B model, same 2K images and edits, much faster on a regular GPU. Catch: the research license means businesses need separate permission to use it commercially.
FT reports Masayoshi Son is asking Gulf investors for up to $100B for a new SoftBank fund — not for AI labs, but to buy ordinary companies and rebuild them with AI and robots. Asked about bubble fears, Son called the idea 'blasphemy'.
AWS open-sourced its Physical AI Toolchain: synthetic data, model training, simulation and edge deployment in one pipeline, built on NVIDIA's GR00T and Isaac stack, with lessons from Amazon's million robots. Sri Elaprolu: 'So you continually iterate the brain.'
Open-source agent Hermes just raised $90M at a $1.5B valuation to take open agents into the enterprise. 24 million clones, ~2.5% of all AI token use, and the pitch is simple. Dillon Rolnick: 'We're building for everyone to own their intelligence, and we're doing it in the open.'
Reka's Rho-1 is one model doing it all: draws a lighthouse, animates it, edits the video into a snowstorm — then drives a robot with the same weights. No tool calls, no specialist models passing the baton. Text, images, video and robot control in a single neural net.
Satya Nadella just called for an emergency brake on every AI model. Microsoft's CEO says to assume models are already compromised — 'Think of it like an emergency brake': always keep a human able to pause or shut down a model mid-task.
Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in — or outright buy — Reflection AI, the startup that just launched the Beam open-weight model, per the FT. Talks are early and could still fall apart. Nvidia already put $800M in.
Anthropic gave Claude two new superpowers: Dashboards, which builds live charts from a plain-English question on your company data, and Motion, which turns a prompt into an animation. Docs, Slides and Design are now out of beta for everyone.