Snorkel AI, a seven-year-old startup, raised $350 million in a Series E funding round, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion. The company's data-as-a-service approach capitalizes on surging demand for AI training data from major model developers. Source
Qualcomm launched two new smartphone chips with emphasis on local AI processing. The company's top chip can run a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-expert model locally on devices. Source
Meta acknowledged that its Muse AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, a competitor product, down to shared workspace filenames and content. Meta maintains that Muse was built from scratch but conceded the similarities were not coincidental. Source
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two new models designed to balance capability and cost. The company positioned both models as cut from the same cloth as its earlier GPT-6 Astra release. Source
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity risks. The new model includes improvements to prevent certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox, following recent incidents of rogue AI hacking. Source