Proton Rebuilds Privacy-Focused Lumo 2.0
Proton rebuilt its Lumo chatbot with image features, thinking mode, memory, Projects for documents and private web search hosted in Europe.
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View archive →Keller says Tenstorrent is not for sale
Jim Keller denied that Tenstorrent is in acquisition talks with Qualcomm, while leaving the door open to a large partnership around RISC-V AI chips.
Anthropic models return after export controls lift
The U.S. Commerce Department lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Anthropic accepted new safety and reporting commitments.
DeepSeek opens DSpark for faster inference
DeepSeek and Peking University open sourced DSpark, an inference framework that raises generation speed by 60% to 85% and can lift single-GPU throughput as much as 6.6 times.
AI wealth tightens San Francisco housing
The AI boom is pushing San Francisco rents and home prices higher, with vacancy in prime neighborhoods falling from 13% in 2020 to about 3%.
Meta contractors tested rival chatbots as minors
WIRED reported that Meta contractors posed as underage users to test ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI with crisis prompts about self-harm, eating disorders and drugs.
Google pushes cheaper image and video models
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast low-cost image generation and previewed Gemini Omni Flash for short video generation and conversational editing.
Gemini Spark moves onto the Mac
Google updated Gemini Spark with a macOS beta, more connected apps and proactive monitoring for topics such as sports, stocks, weather and email.
OpenAI reportedly halves inference costs
OpenAI engineers found software optimizations that cut inference costs by more than half for free ChatGPT traffic, according to The Information.
Taiwan raid targets alleged Nvidia server paperwork
Taiwanese prosecutors searched 12 locations linked to Super Micro partners and seized about 50 servers suspected of being routed toward mainland China, Hong Kong or Macao with false documents.