Texas Governor Greg Abbott has imposed a moratorium on new power grid connections for data centers until regulators can verify their impact on the grid. This follows a surge in interconnection requests, mostly from data centers, that could threaten the reliability of the state's power system.

The Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters, claiming top performance in benchmarks. Independent tests by Artificial Analysis place it third on their Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Kimi K3 excels in agentic and automation tasks, posing a significant challenge to US frontier models.

DeepSeek has released an update to its V4 series, maintaining the same architecture but significantly enhancing its agent capabilities. The update focuses on improving the model's ability to handle complex tasks, likely through refinements in training or inference.