In three preprints, researchers put numbers on what inference actually costs: agentic serving multiplies energy 13-fold, and smaller models often deliver more value per joule.
Google is spending $17 billion on a Wyoming data centre with fuel cells and carbon capture. Nautilus says two degrees of cooling buys 480 free-cooling hours. Aria says the network is 10 to 15% of cluster cost.
An AI heart scan flags patients with no diagnosis code. A smartwatch spots hypertension without a cuff. A drug model needs a million base pairs of context.
Baseten built a cloud for agents, Surge RL-tuned Nemotron past frontier scores on coding tasks, and Astera showed why the network is now the bottleneck.
LangChain made agents async, Warp and Forter rebuilt review around agents, and Scale Ventures cut a 36-minute CI run to 8.9 minutes. The code was never the slow part.
METR's high-access review finds Anthropic improving capabilities at roughly twice the 2024-25 rate, driven by AI use — and says the public risk report was overconfident.
Mistral shipped a big model with an enterprise platform, Fastino shipped five small models that decide instead of generate, and Nanbeige shipped one that declines most questions.
Google cut its video model's price 30% and made 15-second clips editable in conversation. Runway made a 57-billion-parameter model talk back in real time.
Two independent evaluations of GPT-6 Cyber agree on the shape of the result: it finds more, finishes scripted attacks, and still fails against hardened targets.
Only 12 of 30 mouse phenotypes carry to humans, and cell-line drug data needs remapping to match patients. The fix is measuring transfer, not assuming it.
Payoneer is merging, Priority is going private, and Affirm and Bill keep growing. Meanwhile shoppers tell Nuvei: AI can search, but verify it before it pays.
Contracts fell 15.5% and listings 17.1%. Compass still set records, Howard Hughes is going asset-light, and the mortgage lender closed its GSE chapter.
Live Nation drew 61 million fans while Papa Johns and Wendy's sales fell. BJ's and El Pollo Loco show the split is about execution, not just the consumer.
From a Naval Academy graduate in Cincinnati to a linebacker raised on Navy bases, the 2026 nominees announced this week were picked for years of military community work.
Baltimore put both its quarterbacks on injured reserve, Minnesota turned to Carson Wentz for Monday night, and Seattle's Drew Lock is starting again. The returns matter too.
The Justice Department launched a super-intelligence task force, the FTC unsealed new details in its Amazon ads case, and Britain's financial regulator opened a quantum lab for fighting financial crime.
Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, West Virginia and Delaware all announced Treasury-approved designations that take effect on January 1, 2027, for a ten-year run.