Here is what mattered in AI this week. Every item links to our full sourced brief.
Enterprise Ai
- Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program - OpenAI has introduced a ChatGPT for Small Businesses program aimed at helping entrepreneurs develop AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
- Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos - Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lower-cost AI security model for detecting and fixing vulnerabilities, positioned against larger systems like Anthropic’s Mythos.
- Bristol Myers Squibb Building Life Science Industry’s Most Advanced AI Factory on NVIDIA Vera Rubin - Bristol Myers Squibb announced it will deploy a second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin, to expand one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences.
- Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission - Google has committed $40 million in AI tokens and credits toward the Genesis Mission, an initiative focused on advancing scientific discovery.
- How Couchbase built a multi-model AI architecture for Capella iQ with Amazon Bedrock - Couchbase adopted Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude models to power Capella iQ, using a multi-model architecture and reporting operational benefits in production.
Ai Safety Policy
- The tech-broification of American science has officially begun - The Trump administration announced its first Genesis Mission grants, allocating $5 billion to AI-driven science projects while signaling priorities favoring AI, robotics, and nuclear energy over life sciences.
Llms
- Google closes in on another billion- user product with Gemini - Google’s Gemini surpassed 750 million monthly users as of February, positioning it to potentially become another billion-user product for the company.
- Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro - Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, while notably not releasing a Gemini 3.5 Pro model.
Generative Media
- At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Advances Graphics and Simulation With Agentic and Physical AI - NVIDIA used SIGGRAPH to showcase graphics and simulation advances driven by agentic and physical AI, spanning media, content creation and robotics.
Ai Agents
- Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions - Amazon is updating Alexa Plus so it can connect to smart home devices in new ways and route complex requests to the correct device across brands like Bosch, Whirlpool, and iRobot.
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