Curated AI news from the last 24 hours — models, agents, enterprise, and developer tools.
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung about a custom AI chip, a sign the company is getting serious about developing its own silicon rather than relying solely on Nvidia and cloud partners. The discussions are early-stage, with Anthropic yet to decide what the chip will be used for or how it would fit into server infrastructure.
techcrunch.com ↗Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business dedicated to delivering enterprise AI deployments, backed by a $2.5 billion commitment and roughly 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The unit is aimed at closing the gap between AI pilots and production use inside large organizations.
techcrunch.com ↗GitHub made Copilot vision generally available to all Copilot subscribers, letting users attach images and PDFs directly to chat prompts so Copilot can reason about visual content alongside code. The feature is rolling out across Free, Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise tiers.
github.blog ↗GitHub added Kimi K2.7 Code to GitHub Copilot's model picker, marking the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in Copilot. The addition gives developers a free alternative to proprietary models for everyday coding tasks.
github.blog ↗Google's total carbon emissions are up 25% year-over-year and Amazon's are up 16%, driven largely by AI infrastructure buildout. The figures underscore the growing environmental cost of the AI data center boom even as both companies tout efficiency gains per query.
techcrunch.com ↗Google brought Gemini Spark, its agentic assistant, to a beta Mac desktop app, adding features like real-time topic tracking and connections to apps such as Google Tasks and Keep. The macOS beta is limited to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. for now.
techcrunch.com ↗At an internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that AI agent capabilities have not accelerated as fast as executives previously expected. The comments offer a rare admission from a frontier lab leader that agentic AI progress is proving slower than industry hype suggested.
techcrunch.com ↗Meta quietly launched Pocket, an experimental app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games from text prompts using AI. The release extends Meta's push into consumer-facing generative AI tools built on its own models.
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