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DeepSeek's V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window, achieves 93.5% on LiveCodeBench and is freely downloadable on Hugging Face under MIT license.
Liquid AI unveiled LFM2.5-230M, which decodes at 42 tokens/sec on a Raspberry Pi 5 while outperforming larger models on instruction-following and tool use, with on-device robotics applications demonstrated.
DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash alongside WeatherNext, an AI model that delivers breakthrough cyclone track and intensity forecasts with over a day's extra lead time, advancing both general models and scientific applications.
Inherent launched Faraday, a 27B-parameter agent that reportedly outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI models at replicating scientific papers, marking a major step in automated research validation.
Genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 from Stanford and Arc Institute designed 16 viable novel bacteriophage genomes in a Science paper, demonstrating AI's potential for end-to-end materials and biological discovery.
Alibaba completed an $10.2 billion Hong Kong share placement, directing all proceeds toward chips, computing infrastructure, and model development for its AI ambitions.
XPeng's humanoid robotics unit secured its first external funding round exceeding $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, backed by IDG, Gaorong, Tencent, and Alibaba.
NASA/ESA Hubble data provides definitive evidence that the young Milky Way consumed a dwarf galaxy nearly 11.8 billion years ago, extending our understanding of galactic evolution by 1.8 billion years.
The new U.S. policy seeks to dramatically increase spacecraft launches and re-entries to usher in a golden age of commercial space activity.
Private Chinese company LandSpace successfully landed a reusable rocket stage for the first time, positioning the nation to compete with SpaceX on cost-effective spaceflight.
In the first half of 2026, institutional investors including BlackRock and Goldman directed all $11.2 billion in crypto funding toward regulated businesses in payments, stablecoins, and prediction markets rather than permissionless projects.
Bitcoin briefly topped $79,000 amid record $1.92 billion weekly inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, lower Treasury yields, and positive regulatory signals around the pending CLARITY Act.