Google’s Gemini didn’t just benchmark high — it officially took gold at the IMO, beating thousands of actual students. Meanwhile, China’s Qwen3 is coming for Claude Opus 4 with a stronger open-source flex. And OpenAI? They're signing 4.5GW deals and shaking hands with the UK government. Welcome to the era where foundation models are nation-state assets and math scores are marketing.
👀In Case You Missed It
Google’s Gemini just took gold 🥇 at the International Math Olympiad (IMO) for math reasoning.
OpenAI signed a massive 4.5GW deal with Oracle for Stargate compute, despite SoftBank tensions.
Alibaba’s Qwen3 model is closing in on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and beat Kimi K2.
Amazon launched AgentCore, aiming to bring autonomous agents into mainstream enterprise production.
The UK and OpenAI formalised a partnership to embed AI across public and private sector infrastructure.
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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
Trump’s AI Action Plan targets deregulation and infrastructure with 90+ policies, aiming for data centre expansion, AI sovereignty, and China competitiveness.
SourceGoogle DeepMind releases Aeneas AI to decipher ancient Roman inscriptions, with 72% location accuracy and 73% restoration rate.
OpenAI’s GPT‑5 router system leaks reveal modular, dynamic inference model to auto-switch subsystems (reasoning, creative, tools) per prompt.
OpenAI now fields 2.5B daily ChatGPT prompts, with 330M from US users alone; JPMorgan warns its moat is weakening.
💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
xAI preps 550,000-GPU Colossus 2 cluster after Grok 4 revenue jump; existing Colossus 1 cluster runs 230,000+ chips.
SourceCrusoe orders 19 GE Vernova gas turbines to power next-gen data centres, amid a broader trend of fossil‑powered AI clusters.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite launches as Google’s fastest LLM, optimised for latency, energy efficiency, and large context use cases.
SourceMIT unveils token-level image generation technique, enabling creation/editing from just 32 tokens without traditional diffusion generators.
SourceFigure debuts fireproof humanoid robot battery with 94% higher energy density, designed for industrial-grade AI robotics deployment.
