NVIDIA explains that deploying physical AI at scale requires safety covering hardware, software, AI behaviour and operating environments, and introduces its full-stack safety system NVIDIA Halos.
NVIDIA held an AI ecosystem event at the Grand Egyptian Museum, with Egyptian Deep Learning Institute participation growing over tenfold in a year. Hassan Allam received a data centre licence from Egypt's National Telecom Regulatory Authority and is developing a new centre with A15 with expected investment of $400 million. NVIDIA says four African AI factories have been announced or launched, with another 656 MW under construction.
Microsoft published RetroChimera, a retrosynthesis prediction framework, in Nature and open-sourced its implementation and weights. It combines the Transformer model R-SMILES 2 with GNN-based NeuralLoc, using a learned ensemble to rerank predictions. Chemists preferred its single-step reaction predictions in blind testing.
NVIDIA argues AI security should be treated as an engineering problem, with explicit requirements, executable controls, named owners and evidence of effective protection. Its open-source NVIDIA OpenShell enforces policies outside agent reasoning and provides sandboxed execution. Cisco DefenseClaw adds governance, while JFrog integrates OpenShell to scan and validate agent skills.
Higgsfield AI used GPT-6 Astra to launch new video features in a day, helping small businesses create video adverts and bringing creative tools to market faster.
OpenAI is working with an independent mathematics and AI advisory group to guide review and communication of emerging AI results in the field. Specific members and operational details have not been disclosed.
NVIDIA highlighted five AI clean-energy companies at New York Climate Week. ThinkLabs AI's NVIDIA CUDA-based digital twins and agents help Southern California Edison cut grid connection application assessments from 30–45 days to two minutes.
OpenAI proposed a path for building global standards for AI's next phase, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting and governance to improve safety.
OpenAI Academy added learning pathways for employees, developers, managers, educators, students and others to develop and demonstrate practical AI skills.
Hugging Face released tokenizers v1, preserving token IDs, APIs, vocabularies and merge ranks from v0.23 while increasing speed by up to tens of times.
V7 reduced costs by 78% with GPT-5.6 Luna while improving accuracy. GPT-5.6 turns scattered company documents into agent-ready context for completing complex work with source links.
Google Research released MilleMiglia, a C++ generator of realistic, privacy-preserving benchmark instances for middle-mile logistics delivery. Source and documentation are public on GitHub.
The latest GitHub Podcast examines five AI development memes. AI-generated code still needs reading and accountability, with review proportional to risk. Skills package team experience, while MCP standardises connections to tools and data; they can combine. RAG is not dead: it provides relevant information beyond training data and can coexist with agents, Skills and MCP in one workflow.
OpenAI released an Australian teen safety blueprint with six pillars for safer AI experiences that protect and empower teenagers.
Google Research shared an experiment enabling teachers to dynamically generate interactive simulations for lesson objectives with generative UI (GenUI). It released over 30 English examples for secondary STEM across physics, chemistry, biology and maths, all AI-generated and teacher-reviewed.
Pawprint Studio's open-world creature-catching RPG Aniimo launches day one on GeForce NOW, enabling streaming on Steam Deck and newly supported Firefox without waiting for a 45 GB download.
Cooley built GO Public on ChatGPT Work, bringing intelligence into IPO workflows to help lawyers spot potential issues earlier and focus judgement where it matters most.
GitHub used the Copilot app and Copilot CLI to completely rewrite the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript into over 800,000 lines of production Rust. AI agents wrote most of the code, delivered incrementally across 128 PRs, improving performance by several orders of magnitude.
OpenAI released OpenAI for Law, providing frontier intelligence, firm-specific workflows, connected legal data and legal-grade controls for confidential client work. It includes Astra for Law.
OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behaviour.
OpenAI and AARP will provide free hands-on ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults in ten US cities, helping them safely develop practical AI skills.
NVIDIA submitted preview results for Vera Rubin NVL72 to MLPerf Inference v6.1 for the first time, achieving throughput up to 3.7 times that of GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and up to 2.5 times on DeepSeek-R1.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) to encourage data centres to dynamically adjust electricity use to grid conditions.
OpenAI introduced new AI advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents and tools for marketers, integrated with HubSpot and Shopify.
OpenAI described how ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics help teams understand AI usage and spending, identify training needs and connect adoption to business outcomes.
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla. Firefox's AI browsing assistant Smart Window (beta) is now powered by Mistral models, initially for France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected later this year.
Hex's data agent uses GPT-6 Astra to turn analytical answers into interactive visual reports that employees want to share.
OpenAI economic research finds workers use AI beyond traditional job responsibilities, with new activities becoming recurring parts of their work. It examines how employees actually expand their work with AI rather than limiting analysis to existing roles.
A University of Manchester team used NVIDIA Earth-2's generative Earth-2 CorrDiff model and one year of hourly UK pollution data to train a nationwide air-pollution model at 2–3-square-kilometre resolution, completing training in two days on one eight-GPU Isambard-AI node.
Salesforce unveiled its first CRM reasoning model, Koa, at Dreamforce. Post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, it uses a proprietary synthetic dataset derived from nearly three decades of enterprise CRM deployments across more than 14 industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and travel.
Google Research proposed Retrieve-for-Train, using offline reinforcement learning to find reward-aligned query fan-out and compile it into supervision, then distilling it into a 53.9M-parameter diffusion retriever. At inference, it performs one non-autoregressive query fan-out without generating CoT reasoning tokens.
Google DeepMind released two real-time conversation models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. The former targets scale and cost efficiency, while the latter targets complex tasks and multistep reasoning.
NVIDIA introduced DSX at AI Infra Summit to improve AI-factory token throughput within a fixed power budget. Lambda validated DSX MaxLPS on a five-rack, 19-node HGX B200 cluster, running 19 nodes within the same budget as 16 at full power. Cluster token throughput rose 24%, from around four million to five million tokens per second, with performance per watt up 23%.
NVIDIA announced several advances for Vera Rubin and the DSX platform at AI Infra Summit, focusing on energy-efficiency improvements in token throughput per megawatt.
IBM researchers added consistency guidelines to ALTK-Evolve, using Consistency Analyzer to diagnose decision points in agent trajectories that are prone to flipping.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) uses MONAI, the open-source medical imaging framework co-founded by NVIDIA, to reduce paediatric heart modelling from four hours to seconds, already supporting complex ventricular septal defect surgical planning. CHOP is working with NVIDIA to integrate Newton, an open-source physics engine based on NVIDIA Warp, into SlicerHeart, reducing cardiac-device simulation from up to four hours to near real time.
Fyxer combines OpenAI models, fine-tuning and memory with real user feedback to organise each user's inbox and draft emails in their own voice.
Perplexity is using GPT-6 Astra to draft communications, modify software and monitor production systems, checking the model much less frequently than earlier models.
GitHub's Japan and Korea marketing leads used Copilot to automate event operations. GitHub Issues are work units, Issue forms collect structured fields and labels trigger Actions workflows to generate UTM links, landing pages and invitation emails and clean registrant lists.
Cognition uses GPT-6 Astra to improve Devin's ability to test software and demonstrate that it works, aiming to reduce engineers' code review burden and speed up delivery.