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Today:

• Anthropic Co-Founder Warns: AI Is Becoming a “Creature,” Not a Tool

• Oracle to Deploy 50,000 AMD Chips, Challenging Nvidia’s AI Lead

• xAI Enters Game AI Race with Physics-Based World Models

• Google Invests $15B in India’s Largest AI Data Center

• Walmart Teams Up with ChatGPT for Personalized AI Shopping

Anthropic's co-founder is throwing up MASSIVE red flags…

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warns that today’s AI models are not just tools—they behave like unpredictable, evolving creatures. Despite public claims that AI is simple and controllable, Clark and others at the frontier see systems showing situational awareness, lying, and even influencing their future versions. 

As billions pour into scaling AI, he urges us not to ignore the growing complexity. These models may not be self-aware in a human sense, but their behavior suggests something deeper is at play. Clark calls for transparency, public pressure, and humility because pretending the “creature” isn’t real guarantees we won’t be ready for it.

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Oracle to Deploy 50,000 AMD Chips, Challenging Nvidia’s AI Lead

Oracle will deploy 50,000 AMD chips by late 2026, signaling growing interest in alternatives to Nvidia’s AI dominance. The move highlights AMD’s rising role in powering AI systems, with OpenAI and Oracle deepening their partnerships around AMD's hardware.

KEY POINTS

• Oracle + AMD Deal: Oracle Cloud will install 50,000 AMD AI chips (Instinct MI450) starting in 2026 to boost its AI infrastructure.

• Nvidia’s Grip Challenged: More cloud providers, including OpenAI, are shifting toward AMD to reduce dependence on Nvidia’s market-dominant chips.

• OpenAI Partnership: OpenAI may own up to 10% of AMD stock if large-scale deployments succeed; it also holds a $300B cloud deal with Oracle.

Why it matters

This shows a major shift in the AI chip market. Oracle and OpenAI backing AMD means Nvidia might face real competition. More chip choices help lower costs, improve innovation, and give companies more power to grow AI technology without being tied to one supplier.

xAI Enters Game AI Race with Physics-Based World Models

Elon Musk’s xAI is creating an AI-powered video game using “world models” — systems that teach AI to understand real-world physics. The team includes former Nvidia experts. The same tech could eventually guide robots and other real-world applications beyond gaming.

KEY POINTS

• xAI’s New Frontier: Musk’s company is developing world models — AI that understands the physical world — for gaming and robotics.

• Top Talent Hired: xAI brought on Nvidia veterans to accelerate development; a first AI-generated game is planned for release by end of 2026.

• Bigger Picture: World models could reshape industries like automation, robotics, and virtual reality, though technical challenges remain high.

Why it matters

If successful, xAI’s world models could help AI move beyond screen-based tasks and interact with the real world. This may lead to breakthroughs in gaming, robotics, and daily life tools. But building AI that understands physics and cause-effect is extremely hard — and not guaranteed to succeed.

Google Invests $15B in India’s Largest AI Data Center

Google will spend $15 billion over five years to build its largest AI data center outside the U.S., located in Visakhapatnam, India. Despite strained U.S.-India trade relations, the move reinforces India’s role as a vital market and AI infrastructure hub.

KEY POINTS

• Biggest India Investment: Google will build a $15B AI data center in Andhra Pradesh, its largest ever investment in India.

• AI & Job Creation: The center will generate 188,000 jobs and support India’s national AI goals, with 1GW initial capacity.

• Geopolitical Context: Despite U.S.-India tariff tensions, Google emphasizes mutual benefits and partners with Adani and Airtel for infrastructure.

Why it matters

This move shows how important India is for global tech growth. Google’s investment helps India grow its AI and tech power, creating jobs and faster digital progress. Even though trade tensions exist, big tech firms are still betting on India’s future in the AI race.

🧠RESEARCH

QeRL: Beyond Efficiency -- Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

QeRL speeds up training for large language models using a mix of compression and smart noise control. It reduces memory use, explores better strategies, and makes training faster and cheaper. For the first time, it enables a 32-billion-parameter model to train with just one top-end GPU—without sacrificing performance.

Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencoders

This paper improves image generation by swapping old autoencoders in Diffusion Transformers with newer, smarter ones trained to understand image meaning. The result is better-looking images, faster training, and no need for extra tricks. Their method sets new benchmarks on ImageNet and suggests a new default for training these models.

OmniVideoBench: Towards Audio-Visual Understanding Evaluation for Omni MLLMs

OmniVideoBench is a new test set to check how well AI models understand both sound and visuals in videos. It includes 1,000 detailed questions from 628 videos, focusing on logic, timing, and cause-effect. Results show that current models still fall short compared to human reasoning in real video tasks.

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• Walmart is teaming up with OpenAI to let customers shop through ChatGPT. The AI will learn users' needs, suggest items, and simplify checkout, making shopping faster, easier, and more personal—without losing the human touch.

• Intel is launching a new AI chip, Crescent Island, in 2026 to compete with Nvidia and AMD. It focuses on energy-efficient AI tasks like inference, despite using slower memory. Nvidia also invested $5B in Intel to co-develop future chips.

• Gmail’s new AI feature helps schedule meetings by suggesting time slots based on your Calendar and email context. Called “Help me schedule,” it auto-fills suggestions into emails and creates invites once a time is picked—available now for select users.

• Firefox now lets users switch to Perplexity’s AI-powered search, offering direct answers with sources instead of traditional web links. The option is live on desktop globally, with mobile support coming soon, and emphasizes privacy by avoiding personal data sharing.

• Amazon has launched AgentCore, a platform that helps businesses run AI agents across real-world tasks. It supports models like OpenAI and Gemini, offers API tools, monitoring, and storage, and is already used by Sony, Ericsson, and others across nine AWS regions.

• Salesforce says its AI tools now save the company $100 million a year in customer service. By using its own Agentforce platform to automate support and early sales tasks, Salesforce aims to show clients the real value of its AI features.

• Goldman Sachs is slowing hiring and planning job cuts as it leans into AI to boost productivity. Its “OneGS 3.0” initiative targets sales, onboarding, and compliance. Despite cuts of 3–5%, the firm expects overall headcount to rise by year’s end.