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Industry Milestones: NVIDIA reached $4T valuation as first company to hit this milestone, while OpenAI achieved $500B valuation, partnering with Samsung on floating data centers and securing supply chains. Major tech firms are planning massive AI investments, with OpenAI projecting $115B by 2029.

Policy & Regulation: EU unveiled a harmonized AI strategy focusing on homegrown tech, reducing China dependence, and setting mandatory rules for general-purpose systems. OpenAI shifted Sora 2 to opt-in rights with watermarking after Hollywood backlash. Google patched "Gemini Trifecta" security flaws.

LLM Developments: Google's Gemini 3 is coming, focusing on code, browser automation and UX improvements. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is shipping with expanded image generation capabilities. Other notable releases include vLLM V1 with in-flight weight updates, ByteDance's Self-Forcing++ for longer videos, HunyuanImage 3.0 topping leaderboards, and Google's VaultGemma for privacy-sensitive applications.

Research Breakthroughs: Apple combined Mixture-of-Experts with Routing-of-Experts for efficient inference. Meta showed concise summaries outperform verbose reasoning. Other advances include Retrieval-of-Thought, PromptCoT 2.0, RLAD's two-player training approach, and CoDA-1.7B's competitive small code model.

New Tools: DSPy released safety tooling with JetBrains expanding language support. DeepSeek open-sourced TileLang for GPU optimization. Thinker/Modal simplify GPU job deployment. OpenAI launched a visual Agent Builder. SciToolAgent speeds scientific analysis. Microsoft 365 expanded Copilot capabilities.

Practical Applications: CoreWeave shared data management strategies. India declared 2025 "Year of AI" with teacher training. Moondream demonstrated impressive visual recognition. AI-powered X-rays accelerated TB screening in Mumbai. An Oregon sheriff's office used AI for police reports. Google launched a $1M AI filmmaking challenge.

Industry Discourse: Debates continue around NIST's treatment of DeepSeek, data quality vs algorithms, consumer models challenging closed systems, AI in quantum mechanics, and practical engineering realities of agent systems.

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