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🏗️ Oracle reportedly delays OpenAI data centers to 2028
🌍 Runway unveils first "General World Model"
📈 Cisco stock hits record high since 2000
🎧 Google Translate brings real-time translation to any headphones
🤖 OpenAI adds skills framework to ChatGPT and Codex CLI
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🧰 + 5 trending tools
📚 + 1 trending papers
🏗️ Oracle reportedly delays OpenAI data centers to 2028 LINK
Oracle has reportedly pushed back the delivery schedule for massive AI data centers built for OpenAI, shifting the timeline from 2027 to 2028 because of setbacks impacting the Stargate program.
Sources attribute the setback to shortages of skilled labor and materials, but the overall project scope remains unchanged with plans for two million AI accelerators and 5 GW of power.
Chief executive Clay Magouyurk says the company only accepts orders it can fulfill, citing a SuperCluster in Texas that is on track with over 96,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GB200 chips.
🌍 Runway unveils first "General World Model" LINK
Runway has introduced GWM-1, a new General World Model designed to simulate interactive environments in real time, alongside an upgraded Gen-4.5 that now features native audio generation and editing.
This technology builds an internal representation of scenes to generate video frame by frame, shipping in three versions for creating explorable environments, speaking GWM Avatars, or synthetic training data for robots.
The startup joins a crowded race against Google DeepMind and World Labs, as researchers view these systems as a critical evolution beyond conventional language models that lack understanding of the physical world.
📈 Cisco stock hits record high since 2000 LINK
Cisco shares climbed past their dot-com bubble peak on Wednesday to reach $80.25, finally topping a split-adjusted record set on the exact day the networking giant briefly became the world's most valuable company.
While many internet highflyers vanished after the market crash, the hardware maker survived by acquiring software companies including Webex and Splunk to expand well beyond its original business of selling switches and routers.
Although Nvidia now dominates data centers with its AI chips, CEO Chuck Robbins claims Cisco is benefiting from the craze with $1.3 billion in recent quarterly AI infrastructure orders from large web companies.
🎧 Google Translate brings real-time translation to any headphones LINK
Google is rolling out a beta experience for the Translate app on Android that turns any pair of headphones into a real-time translation device while keeping the speaker’s tone intact.
Google says Gemini will help the Translate app handle nuanced phrases like slang and idioms, enabling smarter and accurate text translations based on context instead of a literal word-for-word translation.
The tech giant is also expanding its language learning tools to nearly 20 new countries and adding a feature that tracks your progress, making the experience feel much more like Duolingo.
🤖 OpenAI adds skills framework to ChatGPT and Codex CLI LINK
OpenAI is apparently adding a new skills framework to both ChatGPT and the Codex CLI, closely mirroring a modular system that competitor Anthropic introduced for its assistants back in October.
User Elias Judin discovered directories named "pdfs" and "spreadsheets" holding "skill.md" files while testing a "5.2 pro" model, suggesting the company is organizing AI tools into app-like modules for specific tasks.
The design lets a prompt call instructions for processing a complex subtask, meaning you can easily adapt the software by simply creating a single folder and a script.
Other news you might like
- Trump’s AI executive order promises ‘one rulebook’ — startups may get legal limbo insteadLINK
- Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacksLINK
- Intel set to buy AI chip specialist as it scrambles to catch up with AMD, NvidiaLINK
- Nvidia weighs expanding H200 production as new China orders rush in, report claimsLINK
- Even in Silicon Valley, skepticism looms over robots, while ‘China has certainly a lot more momentum on humanoids’LINK
- Opposition to Netflix-Warner deal grows in WashingtonLINK
- Huawei's latest mobile is armed with China's most advanced process node to date despite using blacklisted chipmaker — Huawei Kirin 9030 mobile SoC made on SMIC N+3 process, but can't compete with 5nm nodeLINK
- OpenAI claims four engineers and Codex build the Sora Android app in just 28 daysLINK
🧰 Trending tools
PlanEat AI: generates personalized weekly meal plans and automatic shopping lists to eliminate the friction of planning healthy meals consistently.LINK
PocketCorder: a mobile app that lets developers monitor running processes, check logs, and oversee AI agents remotely from their iPhone instead of being desk-bound.LINK
Nice: a privacy-first intimate activity tracker that stores encrypted data locally on your device, offering insights and optional partner syncing without servers or accounts.LINK
We2: generates AI-powered conversation prompts tailored to couples' moods and relationship stages to improve communication and emotional connection.LINK
Claude Code recipes for knowledge workers: a collection of 100 structured prompts for automating common workplace tasks like meeting notes, status reports, and documentation using Claude Code.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
File system organizes AI context like folders: researchers created a system where AI agents store and retrieve conversation history using familiar file operations, improving context management.LINK
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