Good morning. Here is what caught our eye in the last 24 hours, six stories worth your three minutes.
Trump announced a voluntary AI safety pact with six tech giants. Nvidia, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google all signed on, though the agreement carries no penalties for non-compliance. It landed alongside a Reuters/Ipsos poll finding three quarters of Americans worry AI companies have not done enough to prevent harm.
Why it matters: the super intelligence race now has a shared safety statement, and the biggest rivals all signed the same page.
Google put an AI data center into orbit. A SpaceX rocket carried the Lemur-2 satellite up this week, a first commercial test of a satellite built to run AI workloads in space, starting with tasks like weather forecasting and scientific research.
Why it matters: the AI buildout is leaving the building, quite literally.
Broadcom’s AI chip revenue tripled, and Applied Digital locked in a $36 billion deal. The chipmaker’s latest numbers show demand for custom AI silicon still accelerating, while Applied Digital’s massive data center agreement signals how much capacity the industry is racing to secure.
Why it matters: the infrastructure boom behind your favorite AI tools keeps outrunning expectations.
Prime Intellect opened its AI compute platform to the public. Prime Inference offers serverless endpoints and reserved GPU capacity for open-source models through an OpenAI-compatible API, running on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware with Vera Rubin support on the way. Before launch it was already processing nearly a trillion tokens a day.
Why it matters: serious compute is becoming a utility anyone can tap, not a moat only the labs can afford.
A new obesity drug posted headline trial results. Boehringer Ingelheim’s survodutide delivered up to 13.1 percent average weight loss over 76 weeks in the Phase III SYNCHRONIZE-2 trial, with results presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Why it matters: the metabolic health toolkit keeps getting sharper, and this dual-agonist approach is one to watch.
The British Museum opened its Korea exhibition. Running October 1 through January 31, it is the most comprehensive chronological survey of Korean visual and material culture seen in Europe in more than 40 years, from ancient gold body ornaments and celadon stoneware to contemporary works.
Why it matters: two millennia of Korean art, one London ticket, and a good reason to plan the trip before January.
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