Microsoft committed $10 billion to Japan for 2026–2029, stating it was its largest ever investment in the country.
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Deepseek reported that its v4 model would run exclusively on Huawei chips, with China's major tech firms ordering hundreds of thousands of units and Nvidia excluded from early testing.
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OpenAI shifted Codex in ChatGPT business plans from fixed licenses to usage-based pricing, so companies would pay based on actual usage rather than per-seat licenses.
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Zhipu AI released GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal model that processed images, video, and text and was designed to convert design mockups directly into executable front-end code.
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Anthropic explained that Claude Code's rapid usage drain was attributable to peak-hour caps and expanding context windows, and it added features via Claude Code and Cowork to allow Claude to directly operate Mac and Windows desktops.