Industry

• Chinese AI models take OpenRouter’s top three spots in real-world usage

  DeepSeek, Tencent and Xiaomi lead OpenRouter’s weekly token rankings, showing a major shift in real-world developer usage across coding and agent workloads.

• Waymo reveals custom 5nm AI chip behind its robotaxi compute stack

  Waymo reveals a custom 5nm ASIC for robotaxi sensor processing, showing a hybrid edge AI architecture built around specialized and merchant silicon.

• Starcloud Raises $250M to Scale Nvidia-Powered AI Data Centers in Orbit

  Starcloud raises $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation as Nvidia and Cisco back its orbital AI data-center scale-up.

• Ryanair signs five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud

  Ryanair signs five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud Ryanair and Google Cloud have announced a five-year data and AI partnership covering 35,000 employees across the airline's network. Th…