Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers through Google AI Studio and Gemini for business, at the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon. Google reports it ranks first on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench, with more than 2X lower cost per task than the next best external model.

Anthropic set an IPO price range of $70–$78 per share for 825 million Class A shares, saying a top-of-range listing could imply a $1.404 trillion valuation. The Claude maker also agreed to privately sell $26 billion of non-voting stock to AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia and TSMC, with Google and Nvidia each investing $10 billion.

California voters rejected Proposition 40, a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of billionaires in the state. The measure, opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and outspent by critics, would have sent most revenue to healthcare and 10% to education and food assistance.

Bay Area voters approved a regional transit funding measure expected to give BART roughly $310 million annually, avoiding planned service reductions. The sales-tax changes start in April 2027, but BART still faces an estimated $50 million gap next year and unresolved longer-term funding questions.

Nvidia's board has no designated chair, an arrangement a 2025 Fenwick report found unique among S&P 100 companies. After Jensen Huang admitted an affair, the board said it backed him and his leadership team, while the question of who might eventually succeed him remains open.

The article argues the next Congress should use the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill to repair military personnel policy, citing a survey in which 53 percent of active-duty respondents said they were considering separating early. It calls for protecting vetted officers from removal from promotion lists without notice or appeal and for barring gender-based exclusion from combat roles.

Aliya Rahman, a 44-year-old south Minneapolis resident, sued the federal government alleging assault, battery, false imprisonment and negligence after agents dragged her from her car during a Jan. 13 immigration enforcement operation. She filed the civil suit after the government did not respond to her April tort claim within six months.

One year into enforcement of the city’s camping ban, Portland has recorded zero convictions. Meanwhile, dozens of people have encountered repeated charges, missed court dates and jail time.

PHP's shared-nothing model gives each request an isolated heap that the Zend Engine clears afterward, preventing state leaks and containing crashes to one worker. The article traces compilation, OPcache bytecode caching, compact zvals, copy-on-write arrays, and PHP-FPM's master-worker pool.

Cloudflare has made Basin generally available, a managed analytics service that runs on Apache Iceberg tables and R2 storage and bundles ingestion, catalog upkeep and distributed SQL querying. It integrates with DuckDB, Snowflake and Apache Spark, with Cloudflare saying free data egress is key to the design.

Security researcher forcequitOS has published public proof-of-concept code for an iOS sandbox escape called worse_query, which Binance says could expose seed phrases, private keys and login credentials. Binance and the researcher have not reported any attacks or data theft, and Apple's updates did not mention a fix.

China's foreign investment security review office has prohibited SoftBank's proposed $5.4 billion purchase of ABB's robotics business, according to statements from both companies. ABB and SoftBank say talks are continuing, and no cancellation of the entire transaction has been announced.

Nvidia has hired the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to run an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang's relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The FBI is conducting a separate probe, and the company's shares dropped sharply.

Denver Immersive Repertory Theater got a $400,000 publicly backed loan but gave up its downtown venue before staging any performance, and Denver later issued a default notice. Records show its founders sought $280,000 more while financing and spending questions persisted.

NVIDIA's Vera CPU pairs 88 custom Armv9.2 Olympus cores with up to 1.5TB of LPDDR5X per socket and a vendor-rated 1.2TB/s peak. The review's tests found strong memory bandwidth and database results, but vector and crypto work lagged x86 chips.

Vanderbilt University is responding to a ransomware attack discovered Monday in Nashville, restoring some systems while others remain restricted. The BYOD group claimed responsibility and said it holds more than one million Social Security numbers; the university says it is working with government agencies.

Microsoft has urged the Trump administration to halt a planned ban on Chinese imports of optical transceivers for AI data centres, according to three people familiar with the matter. Industry groups say the ban could slow US data-centre construction and weaken its AI lead; the FCC is working on the measure.

ESET says it found a previously undocumented Turla toolset named Cereal on government Exchange servers in Kazakhstan and Romania, attributing the toolset to the Russia-linked group with high confidence. In Romania it was set to spot NATO and EU email traffic, and a passive backdoor takes commands via Exchange web paths rather than an external server.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife, tying the admission to national security concerns raised in news reports; the board began an independent investigation and shares slid over 5%. U.S. officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, described as his romantic interest, is a Chinese spy, and three Republican committee chairmen sought a closed-door briefing.

Google released TPU Sync, an open-source C++ framework that moves data between accelerator memory, host DRAM, storage and the network to reduce AI inference latency. Google reports that in some tests time to first token dropped by more than 90%, though the APIs are still changing and support is limited to specific Cloud TPU versions and JAX/PyTorch requirements.

Physical Superintelligence says David Turturean used early access to Anthropic's Fable 5.2 to solve the 18-year-old Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture; Scott Aaronson says he believes the proof is correct though he does not fully understand it. The startup aims to commercialize AI-driven scientific discovery.

A study in Geophysical Research Letters finds that deep reefs between 90 and 150 meters are no longer reliably cooler refuges during marine heat waves. Using simulated daily temperatures for 1993–2023, researchers report that after 2010 heat waves increasingly reached deeper reefs, with 2020–2023 events affecting over 75% of tropical reef areas at all depths.

Anthropic reportedly plans to move ahead with an IPO, setting a valuation range this week and starting trading next Thursday or Friday, The Wall Street Journal reports. Investors are watching the listing to gauge the AI boom, while some institutional investors seek a valuation under the $1.5 trillion target discussed last week.