- Nvidia joins SpaceX’s orbital AI build
- Thomson Reuters builds its own legal AI model
- Build a reusable AI design system with Open Design
- Chinese hackers double attacks with DeepSeek
Nvidia joins SpaceX’s orbital AI build
Image source: NvidiaThe Rundown: SpaceX just announced it will build its space-based Starmind data centers around Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack, with Elon Musk revealing new details on a slimmed-down space version of the system he wants in orbit by Q4 next year. The details:- Each rack packs 72 chips working as one big computer, with Nvidia saying each chip puts out up to 25x the computing power of its older H100.
- Musk said the space rack is “significantly simpler, lower cost, denser and lighter” than typical hardware, tweaked for orbit’s radiation and heat.
- Musk has called Vera Rubin "the best AI computer," with SpaceX reportedly set to run everything from Grok to its orbital fleet on Nvidia alone.
- Analysts estimate orbital compute at more than 4x the cost of ground compute today, a gap Musk claims will flip in its favor in the next few years.
Compliance that's built in, not bolted on
The Rundown: Most companies bolt on AI governance after the fact and hope regulators don't notice the gaps. Dataiku builds it directly into how models and agents are built, deployed, and monitored, so compliance isn't a scramble; it's the default.With Dataiku, you can:- Confidently navigate real-world AI regulation across models and agents
- Embed governance into every stage, from analytics to deployed AI systems, like Beinex, DHL Aviation, and OHRA already do
- Join some of the world's top global companies already using Dataiku
Thomson Reuters builds its own legal AI model
Image source: Thomson ReutersThe Rundown: Thomson Reuters, the legal research giant behind Westlaw and the Reuters newswire, introduced its first homegrown AI model, built by retooling Alibaba's open-source Qwen and training it on decades of the firm's content.The details: - The two-year effort cost $40M in staff and computing power, with the company’s latest training run coming in at $450k.
- Thomson benchmarked the model ahead of Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.5 in certain areas, though it’s only been tested internally so far.
- CTO Joel Hron compared renting AI to renting a house, telling Business Insider you end up with no "equity that compounds into something valuable" over time.
- An open-weights version of Thompson will be available for researchers, with its training so far covering under 10% of the company’s overall content library.
Build a reusable AI design system with Open Design
The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use a free AI design tool to extract your brand's design rules, letting you easily create consistent design assets using AI.Step-by-step:- Download Open Design and connect an existing AI agent such as Codex CLI
- Click "Create New Design System,” paste in your website, click Add, then Continue. Add a logo, images, or a DESIGN.md if it missed anything
- Select the new design system and give it a concrete brief like "Build a 10-second animation explaining our product”
- For v2, give feedback like you would to ChatGPT. You can also annotate on the design or circle things you want changed
How CIOs run AI transformation
The Rundown: AI transformation fails when you DIY. StackAI gives you one platform to build, deploy, and scale, backed by a team of dedicated AI experts who know what works. IT retains 100% control over access, tokens, and usage.Why enterprises choose StackAI:- No-code platform for rapid building and deployment
- 300+ native integrations, no LLM lock-in
- Global governance and advanced analytics
Chinese hackers double attacks with DeepSeek
Image source: Images 2.0 / The RundownThe Rundown: China's state-tied hacking crews are pulling off over twice as many attacks as they did before integrating open-source AI models like DeepSeek into their playbooks, Taiwanese research firm TeamT5 revealed in a new Bloomberg report.The details: - The groups reportedly favor DeepSeek's low cost and loose guardrails, with researchers yet to catch pricier models like Kimi K3 in an attack.
- "DeepSeek is the AI of choice for Chinese hackers because it's relatively powerful with very low cyber guardrails," TeamT5 chief analyst Charles Li said.
- The tracked groups put DeepSeek to work writing break-in code, raiding a Taiwanese firm's email, and mapping a target via 1,000 addresses.
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Everything else in AI todayPerplexity is in talks to raise funding from Nvidia in an equity round at a valuation as high as $30B, with the company’s revenue more than tripling to $750M+ this year. Porsche signed a 5-year, $1.46B deal with Indian IT giant TCS to help integrate AI across the automaker’s customer, factory, and engineering operations. Liquid AI launched Pipette, a new open-source suite that benchmarks AI models on phones and laptops, with methodology independently verified by Artificial Analysis.AI researcher Luke Metz reportedly joined Meta, ending a two-year loop that took him from OAI to Thinking Machines, back to OAI, and now to Alexandr Wang's team.An Nvidia manager and two ex-Super Micro staffers are facing charges in Taiwan over sneaking 74 banned AI servers into China via Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong.
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