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Microsoft Launches $2.5 Billion 'Frontier Company' to Embed 6,000 AI Engineers With Enterprise Clients
Microsoft announced Frontier Company on July 2, a new $2.5 billion unit that will place 6,000 engineers directly inside enterprise customers to co-design and deploy AI at scale — following Amazon and OpenAI into the forward-deployed engineering model.
Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0: China's 1.6T AI Model Built Without NVIDIA
Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan released LongCat-2.0 under MIT license — a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model pre-trained entirely on domestic Chinese ASICs, no NVIDIA hardware involved.
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Out: Near Opus Performance at One-Third the Cost
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, its most capable mid-tier model to date. It scores 63.2% on SWE-Bench Pro, nearly matching Opus 4.8, at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs Extend Serverless Runtimes to 8 Hours with Firecracker Isolation
AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs built on its Firecracker hypervisor, letting developers run isolated Linux containers for up to 8 hours — a massive jump from the existing 15-minute Lambda cap. The service targets AI-generated code execution, long-running CI/CD, and vulnerability scanning.
China's LineShine Hits 2.198 Exaflops to Reclaim World's Fastest Supercomputer — Zero NVIDIA GPUs
Revealed at the TOP500 list in Hamburg on June 24, China's LineShine supercomputer beat the US El Capitan by 20% using entirely domestic CPUs — no NVIDIA or AMD hardware — demonstrating that US export controls failed to contain China's frontier compute ambitions.
Meta Launches Its Own Smart Glasses Brand at $299, No Ray-Ban Required
Meta debuted the Adventurer and Fury glasses under its own brand — not Ray-Ban's — at $299, plus a Kylie Jenner–designed Starfire at $399. All three pack a 12MP camera, 6-mic array, and the Muse Spark AI model for real-time visual processing.
NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: The Industry's First Full-Stack Physical AI Safety System
NVIDIA launched Halos for Robotics, a complete end-to-end safety stack built on 18,600+ engineering years of autonomous vehicle work. Agility Robotics is the first adopter, deploying it in Digit humanoids at Amazon, Toyota, and GXO facilities.
Nvidia Claims Its New Liquid Cooling Design Eliminates Data Center Water Use Entirely
At London Climate Week, Nvidia unveiled a closed-loop liquid cooling reference design for its Rubin AI infrastructure that it says achieves 100% reduction in evaporative water consumption. The system uses a water-propylene glycol coolant operating at 45°C — hot enough to shed heat without external chillers.
Microsoft Signs 20-Year, $7B Natural Gas Deal With Chevron to Power Its Texas AI Megacampus
Microsoft and Chevron announced Project Kilby, a 20-year power purchase agreement worth $7 billion to supply 2.67 GW of dedicated natural gas electricity to Microsoft's Pecos, Texas data center campus. Operations begin in 2028.
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