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EVEN AFTER STARGATE, ORACLE, NVIDIA, AND AMD, OPENAI HAS MORE BIG DEALS COMING SOON, SAM ALTMAN SAYS

OpenAI is involved in major deals with AMD and Nvidia, acquiring significant stakes in these companies, while planning to develop next-gen AI GPUs and data centers. CEO Sam Altman indicates more partnerships are imminent as OpenAI aims to ramp up infrastructure to meet future demand. Despite current revenue not matching extensive investment, Altman remains confident that these strategic moves will drive future economic returns.

STATE OF AI REPORT

Air Street Capital's eighth annual State of AI Report, a trusted industry benchmark, finds OpenAI still leads on research but China's open-weight ecosystems is close beyond with 40% of all new fine-tunes on Hugging Face powered by Qwen.AI software adoption is firmly mainstream with 44% of US businesses now paying for AI (up from 5% in 2023) and average contract values hitting $530k in 2025. Capability per dollar doubles every 3.4 months for DeepMind and 5.8 months for OpenAI, but AI safety budgets remain anemic at just $133M combined across 11 major organizations, less than what frontier labs burn in a day.

SCALABLE IN-CONTEXT RANKING WITH GENERATIVE MODELS

In-content Ranking (ICR) is an emerging paradigm for Information Retrieval that leverages contextual understanding of LLMs to identify relevant documents. It is effective, but not efficient. This paper introduces a novel method that reduces attentional complexity from quadratic to linear without loss in performance and improves retrieval in attention. The method matches or outperforms existing state-of-the-art listwise rankers. It can scale gracefully to long-context shortlists, presenting a scalable and effective solution to ICR.

A SMALL NUMBER OF SAMPLES CAN POISON LLMS OF ANY SIZE

A joint study between Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute found that just 250 poisoned documents (0.00016% of training data) can create backdoor vulnerabilities in models from 600M to 13B parameters. Attack success didn't depend on the proportion of the training corpus at any scale, just the absolute number of documents. The research tested denial-of-service backdoors where trigger phrases like SUDO make models output gibberish.

AMAZON TAKES SHOTS AT CHATGPT WITH QUICK SUITE - YOUR NEW AI 'TEAMMATE' AT WORK

Amazon's Quick Suite is an agentic AI experience for enterprises that uses conversational language to find what users need. It acts as a hub that pulls data from various sources like files, enterprise systems, databases, and the web. Users can use Quick Suite to discuss questions, build personalized agents, and complete tasks while leveraging data protections. AWS offers a free 30-day trial for the feature.

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