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xAI Dissolves into SpaceX: 220,000 GPUs Leased to Anthropic, Orbital Compute Planned

Elon Musk announced xAI's dissolution into SpaceX. The Colossus supercomputing cluster with 220,000 chips is now leased to Anthropic, with plans for orbital satellite compute centers.

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Dirty Frag: A New Linux Kernel Zero-Copy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Deep technical analysis of Dirty Frag, a Linux kernel LPE chaining xfrm-ESP and RxRPC vulnerabilities via zero-copy page cache poisoning.

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Anthropic's Compute Endgame: SpaceX Rockets and a $200 Billion Google Bet

Anthropic partners with SpaceX for compute capacity while signing a $200B deal with Google — top AI model providers have now consumed over half of all US cloud service orders as the infrastructure race intensifies.

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AI Research Spotlight: OpenSeeker-v2 Disrupts Search, CropVLM Eyes the Fields, and Agents Get Benchmarked

An academic team's OpenSeeker-v2 tops search benchmarks with just 10K training samples, CropVLM brings AI to precision agriculture, ClawMark reveals mainstream agents succeed on only 20% of long professional tasks, and AniMatrix rethinks anime generation.

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Open Source AI Projects Surge: TabPFN, Agent-Skills, Local Deep Research, and Ruflo

Four open-source AI projects are exploding on GitHub — TabPFN rethinks tabular data (⭐6.5k), Agent-Skills gives agents engineering superpowers (⭐30.4k), local-deep-research hits 95% on SimpleQA (⭐5.6k), and Ruflo orchestrates enterprise agents (⭐45.2k).

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GPT-5.5 Goes to Work: Excel Integration, Ads, and a New Network Protocol

GPT-5.5 lands in Excel spreadsheets for formula writing and data analysis, ChatGPT launches an ad platform at $50K entry, and OpenAI partners with NVIDIA and Microsoft on the MRC protocol to slash GPU waste in training clusters.

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Claude Agent Dream Mode: Anthropic's Vision for AI That Thinks Before It Acts

Claude launches Agent Dream Mode for deep reasoning before execution, Managed Agents platform, and reveals hundreds of Claude Agents already running 24/7 inside Anthropic automating code review and cross-team collaboration.

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AI Funding Frenzy: DeepSeek Hits $45B, Kimi Raises $2B as Capital Floods the Model Race

DeepSeek valuation doubles to $45 billion in two weeks while Kimi secures $2 billion led by Meituan Longzhu — Chinese AI companies are attracting unprecedented capital as OpenAI and Anthropic battle for enterprise dominance.

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US-China AI Summit 2026: Trump Heads to Beijing as Superpowers Seek AI Dialogue

President Trump will attend the US-China AI Summit in Beijing this May, addressing trade friction, compute competition, and AI safety governance between the two superpowers.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 Instant Edition: Smarter, More Personal, Free for All

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant Edition with 50% fewer hallucinations, persistent memory, personalization features, and free tier access for all users.

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