Google Expands Gemini With Cheaper Models And A Wider Agent Push

Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash, Flash-Lite and restricted Flash Cyber launches plus Spark’s move to the $19.99 AI Pro tier signal a push on price, reach and security AI.

AWS Kills The AI Services It Launched Just Two Years Ago

AWS moved Q Business, Kendra and Bedrock Agents to maintenance mode. What the retirement of its first-generation AI services means for enterprise cloud buyers.

AMD’s Rack-Scale Challenge To Nvidia’s AI Dominance

AMD challenges Nvidia’s AI dominance with Helios, new Instinct GPUs, EPYC processors, ROCm.ai software, and major customer deployment plans.

OpenAI’s Cybersecurity Incident Is A Wake-Up Call For Verifiable Security

OpenAI’s cybersecurity incident demonstrates why autonomous AI is changing cyber risk and why verifiable security has become more important than ever.

Qolab Wants To Rewrite The Rules For Superconducting Quantum Hardware

Led by quantum industry pioneers, the startup aims to overcome challenges in qubit yield and component integration using advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

Frontier AI Labs Are Renting Compute From Their Competitors

Anthropic’s Meta talks, its xAI and TeraWulf contracts and Oracle’s New Mexico permit fight show how AI labs are reallocating infrastructure risk.

Open Weight Models Are Turning Inference Into A Control Point

Fireworks, Baseten and Together AI raised $3.8B in four weeks. The funding proves inference is a control point, not that enterprise AI budgets have moved off frontier models.

Microsoft Doubles Down On Topological Qubits With Majorana 2 Chip

The Majorana 2 quantum chip embodies Microsoft’s efforts to use a topological architecture to pursue fault-tolerant quantum computing.

The Pentagon Just Paused Its Cybersecurity Certification Program. Here’s What Everyone Is Missing.

The Pentagon paused CMMC Phase II, but cybersecurity requirements remain. Here’s what the decision really means for defense contractors.

Cheaper AI Tokens Do Not Guarantee Cheaper Enterprise Agents

Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXAI all cut model prices in eight days. Enterprise agent bills still rise, because the rate card is only one term in the total cost equation.