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Digital Realty Buys 1,440 Acres on a Former WWII Munitions Plant for a 2 GW Kansas Data Center Campus
Digital Realty paid about $475 million for land at De Soto, Kansas, planning a campus scaling from 600 MW in 2028 to 2 GW.
Meta Reportedly Builds 'Meta Compute' Cloud Unit to Rent Out Excess AI GPUs, Rattling Neocloud Stocks
Bloomberg reports Meta is standing up a cloud business under its 'Meta Compute' initiative to sell spare AI capacity; CoreWeave and Nebius shares fell 10.8% and 12.4%.
ByteDance Releases Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo, Claiming It Matches Claude Opus 4.6 on Coding at Roughly 80 Percent Lower Cost
ByteDance unveiled its Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo models at the Volcano Engine FORCE conference, claiming leading coding and agent benchmarks and a total cost of ownership close to 80 percent below Claude Opus 4.6.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, a Cheaper Agentic Model It Says Approaches Its Opus 4.8 Flagship
Anthropic's midsize model matches near-flagship agentic performance at a fraction of the price, and arrives as the lab lifts controls on Fable 5.
Anthropic's 'Cadences' Economic Index Links Its Survey to Real Claude Usage, Finding Heavier Automators More Optimistic About Their Jobs
Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index links a ~9,700-person survey to actual Claude usage, finding people who delegate more work to AI are more optimistic about their jobs.
WorkBench Revisited Finds Top AI Agent Now Completes 89% of Office Tasks, Up From 43% in 2024, With Safety Improving Alongside It
A two-year follow-up to the WorkBench benchmark finds the best workplace agent jumped from 43% to 89% task completion while unintended harmful actions fell from 26% to 2.5%.
Model Context Protocol Locks Its Largest-Ever Spec Revision, Rebuilding the Core as a Stateless Protocol Ahead of a July Release
The 2026-07-28 MCP release candidate makes the protocol core stateless, formalizes an Extensions framework, and deprecates Roots, Sampling, and Logging. The RC locked May 21 for a July 28 final.
Liquid AI's 230M-Parameter LFM2.5 Beats Models Four Times Its Size at Data Extraction and Runs on a Raspberry Pi
The MIT spinout's smallest model yet pairs convolution and attention blocks to outscore billion-parameter rivals on data extraction while decoding at 42 tokens per second on a Raspberry Pi 5.
xAI's Grok 4.3 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock, Running on a New 'Mantle' Inference Engine Reached Through an OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
AWS added Grok 4.3 to Bedrock on June 15, making xAI a model provider on the platform and debuting a separate Mantle inference path.
Mistral Renames Le Chat to Vibe, Folding Chat, Office Automation, and Cloud Coding Into One Agent
Mistral rebranded its Le Chat assistant as Vibe, a single agent spanning Work Mode for office tasks and Code Mode for remote coding.
OpenAI and Molecule.one Report a Near-Autonomous AI Chemist That Improved a Stubborn Drug-Making Reaction Across 10,080 Experiments
GPT-5.4 paired with Molecule.one's Maria platform proposed, ran, and analyzed a 10,080-reaction campaign that lifted yields of a hard sulfonamide coupling using the additive TEMPO.
OpenAI's 'Deployment Simulation' Replays 1.3 Million Past Conversations Through Candidate Models to Predict Misbehavior Before Release
OpenAI's pre-release method regenerates real past conversations with an unreleased model to estimate undesired-behavior rates, with a median multiplicative error of 1.5x.