Bitcoin Core developers said community members and donors raised concerns about AI-related security readiness and the project’s use of AI tools for code review, testing, and troubleshooting during a weekly meeting last Thursday.

Qualcomm said it has formed a multi-generational partnership with Amazon to develop custom chips for large-scale AI data centers, including optical interconnect technology and the use of AWS AI infrastructure to speed chip design work.

Qualcomm said it has entered a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon to develop customized chips for large-scale AI data centers, alongside optical interconnect solutions and expanded use of AWS AI infrastructure for chip design workloads.

Etherscan has launched etherscan-flow, an AI tool that maps on-chain fund movements across more than 60 EVM networks using transaction hashes or wallet addresses, expanding its API-based analytics beyond standard transaction lookup.

ICBC’s Chengdu branch said it issued Sichuan’s first Token computing power loan to a high-tech company, using AI computing bills, token invocation logs and related contracts in its credit evaluation.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its latest industry plan targets 9,800 EFLOPS of intelligent computing power by 2030, alongside larger AI clusters, more inference capacity, and broader domestic chip adoption.

Mistral AI said it completed a €3 billion Series D round at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, with Samsung Electronics leading the financing and several global investors participating.

Xpeng said it has launched a robot production line and completed assembly of its first advanced humanoid robot, marking a shift from research and development toward manufacturing with mass production targeted by year-end.

Firmus said it has signed a multi-year partnership with OpenAI, which will become the anchor client for two AI factories in Malaysia as the company expands contracted computing capacity beyond 900 megawatts.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said voluntary AI development slowdowns should become mandatory safety standards, arguing no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling powerful systems at full speed.