Acquisition
NVIDIA Buys Slurm Creator SchedMD to Power the Backbone of AI and Supercomputing
NVIDIA said it will continue to develop, distribute and support Slurm as vendor-neutral open-source software.
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AI News
Grok Under Fire for Spreading Misinformation After Bondi Beach Shooting
Grok published multiple posts that misidentified the bystander who intervened during the attack.
AI News
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Makes Tinker AI Generally Available
Tinker is designed to simplify and lower the cost of fine-tuning large language models, a process used to tailor general-purpose AI models for specific tasks.
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AI Startups
[Exclusive] Meta to Back Yann LeCun’s New AI Venture with Strategic Compute Support
He plans to build a startup focused on Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI).
Funding
NeoSapien Raises $2 Mn to Develop AI Wearables in India
The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand market visibility, and build out the company’s engineering, design and go-to-market teams.
Acquisition
ServiceNow Nears Deal to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Armis for Up to $7B
If completed, the acquisition would likely be the largest in ServiceNow’s history and deepen its footprint in cybersecurity amid rising digital threats.
AI Developments
Disney Accuses Google of “Massive” Copyright Theft — Just as it Bets $1 Bn on OpenAI
The legal notice alleges that Google’s AI models have reproduced and distributed unauthorized content featuring Disney’s intellectual property.
Acquisition
Qualcomm Makes Bold RISC-V Bet with Ventana Acquisition
Ventana is known for building high-performance, secure compute chiplets based on the open RISC-V architecture.
Partnerships
OpenAI & Disney Strike $1 Bn Licensing Deal to Bring Iconic Characters to Sora AI Video Platform
As part of the agreement, Disney is making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, becoming a major customer of OpenAI’s technology.
Big Tech
Big Tech’s New Love Story with India: Amazon and Microsoft Announce New Mega Billion-Dollar Investments
Microsoft kicked things off with a massive $17.5 billion commitment to supercharge India’s AI and cloud infrastructure over the next four years.
AI Models
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 With Big Leaps in Reasoning, Coding & Real-World Tasks
GPT-5.2 outperforms both its predecessors and many human experts on a range of benchmarks.
Research
Researchers Break Microsoft Copilot Studio, Show How “No-Code” AI Agents Can Commit Fraud Instantly
The company warned that while organisations are rapidly adopting tools that let employees build their own AI agents, this democratisation of AI is creating “severe, yet overlooked” security risks.