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OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor Over Its New Owner as Lidl’s Parent Buys €5.6bn of Its Own Compute

OpenAI ends Cursor's model access after SpaceX buys it, Schwarz Group commits €5.6bn to a 240MW German data centre, and a distilled model costs 17x less.

Stav Intelligence Desk·August 31, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

The compute-supply layer becomes the sovereignty frontier

Europe’s largest-ever chip round bets on photonics, AMD’s record quarter proves a real second accelerator source, and Qwen3.8-Max weights are due this week.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Aug 5, 2026

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The frontier goes quiet, the open models get small

A quiet release day — but Thinking Machines shrank its open model to a quarter the size with almost no score lost, and the AI money kept moving downstream.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Aug 3, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

The EU AI Act Grows Teeth Today — and the Token Price War Is the Real Headline

The EU AI Act's GPAI enforcement and content-transparency rules take effect today, as OpenAI cuts Luna 80% and the open-weight case sharpens.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Aug 2, 2026

Intelligence Brief4 min

Enterprise AI's Three-Way Squeeze: Adoption Is Real, Capex Keeps Climbing, Prices Keep Falling

Enterprise AI's three-way squeeze: adoption is real, capex keeps climbing, and token prices keep collapsing. For buyers, capability is converging — and cheaper.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 29, 2026

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The Biggest Open Model Ever Is Here — and Its Licence Reads Like a Contract

Kimi K3's full weights land under a revenue-tiered licence, chip stocks hit a bear market on AI-capex doubts, and Opus 5 tops the leaderboard at half the price.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 28, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

The largest open model ever lands tomorrow — can anyone actually run it?

Kimi K3's 1.4TB open weights land Monday, Artificial Analysis rebuilds its index around agents, and the enterprise AI money moves to implementation.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 26, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

Google's Flash Tier Gets Cheaper as Microsoft and Mistral Redraw the Sovereign-Cloud Map

Google cuts its Flash tier and gates a security model to governments; Microsoft and Mistral expand a sovereign-cloud deal; Databricks lines up $188B on multi-model governance.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 22, 2026

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Fable 5 Moves to Metered Pricing as the Open-Weight Frontier Narrows the Gap

As Fable 5 shifts to metered $10/$50 pricing, the open-weight leaderboard keeps closing the gap — and Huawei shows a US-component-free AI stack at WAIC.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 20, 2026

Intelligence Brief4 min

The Frontier's Third-Best Model Is Now One You Can Download

An open-weight model lands third on the frontier index, Fireworks’ serving layer is worth $17.5B, and Brussels drafts a legal definition of “sovereign.”

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 19, 2026

Intelligence Brief4 min

Two Open-Weight Releases in Three Days — and Airbus Picks Scaleway

Kimi K3 lands at 2.8T parameters, Inkling gives US labs an open-weights answer, Airbus picks Scaleway, and Article 50 transparency starts 2 August.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 18, 2026

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Moonshot Announces Kimi K3, the Largest Open-Weights Model Yet

Moonshot's Kimi K3 becomes the largest open-weights model yet; EU AI Act GPAI enforcement starts 2 August; Thinking Machines ships its first model.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 17, 2026

Intelligence Brief4 min

AI's Most-Watched Debut Ships as Open Weights

AI's Most-Watched Debut Ships as Open Weights; japan Buys the Full Stack; nobody Grades Above a C+.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 16, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

Europe Writes Its Biggest Cheque Yet for AI It Controls

Europe Writes Its Biggest Cheque Yet for AI It Controls; openAI's Voice Model Listens and Speaks at Once — and Never Stops Listening.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 14, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

A Wall Street Bank Decides Where Its Inference Runs

A Wall Street Bank Decides Where Its Inference Runs; after JADEPUFFER, the Market Reaches for the Agent's Off Switch.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 13, 2026

Intelligence Brief6 min

The Agent That Ran the Whole Attack

The Agent That Ran the Whole Attack: JADEPUFFER and the Other Side of Autonomy; apple Sues OpenAI, and the Concentration Risk Gets a Courtroom.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 12, 2026

Intelligence Brief5 min

The Model Stops Being a Chatbot

The Model Stops Being a Chatbot: ChatGPT Work, Claude Cowork, and the Agentic Workflow Race.

Stav Intelligence Desk·Jul 11, 2026

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