Overview

• Mark Zuckerberg announced Prometheus will launch in 2026 and be followed by Hyperion scaling to 5 GW as part of a “hundreds of billions” investment in AI data centers.
• The U.S. Department of Defense formalized contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI worth up to $200 million each to develop and test autonomous AI workflows for military use.
• OpenAI has indefinitely delayed its first open-weight model release to conduct additional safety evaluations before making its parameters publicly available.
• China’s Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that rivals GPT-4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 on programming and reasoning benchmarks.
• A security flaw at AI vendor Paradox briefly exposed data on as many as 64 million McDonald’s job applicants, underscoring ongoing risks in third-party AI services.