Broadcom Taps Apollo, Blackstone for $35B AI Data Center Fund

General Motors announced vehicle-to-grid capabilities for current EV customers, a new commercial energy storage strategy using sodium-ion batteries, and a simplified public charging feature. The move position EVs as potential grid resources to help offset rising electricity demand from AI data centers. GM is activating these capabilities at scale across its existing customer base.

The tech industry's dominant corporate hierarchy may shift as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare for public market debuts. The article proposes replacing the FAANG acronym (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) with MANGOS to reflect this emerging class of corporate leaders. The timing and scale of these IPOs could reshape which companies define the sector's power structure.

Apple announced AFM 3, a new foundation model family developed with Google that includes a 20-billion-parameter on-device model storing weights in NAND flash rather than DRAM. The architecture routes expert selection once per prompt instead of per token, allowing larger models to run locally while staying within consumer device memory constraints. This addresses a fundamental limitation that has kept on-device AI models significantly smaller than cloud alternatives.

Cohere released North Mini Code, a 30 billion parameter open-source coding agent that runs on a single H100 GPU, offering engineering teams an alternative to proprietary models like Claude Fable 5. The model is purpose-built for agentic software engineering tasks including code review, architecture mapping, and terminal work, but generates roughly three times more output tokens than comparable models in testing, creating a verbosity cost in high-volume production scenarios.