NVIDIA released RTX Spark laptops, pairing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics with NVIDIA Grace CPU in Windows PCs sold by major OEMs. Systems start at $2,399. Local AI and content-creation/gaming capabilities are now available in portable form, with NVIDIA holding six global launch events including a Berlin appearance and five signed laptops.
Taiwan plans to prosecute people who ship AI servers and advanced semiconductors to Chinese buyers without authorization under a criminal provision of its Foreign Trade Act. The rules would cover these items starting from an as-yet-undecided start date, and penalties have not been set. The shift replaces the current blacklist-based approach, tightening export controls across all China-bound buyers and giving prosecutors a criminal tool for diverted chips.
Saif Khan launched the Center for Technology and Statecraft and discussed its first major DUV immersion lithography report on US export controls against China. The report projects that stopping DUV tool exports could leave China producing about 100x fewer AI chips than the US by the mid-2030s. This reframes AI policy discussion around lithography as a key chokepoint lever and emphasizes translating supply-chain research into government decision-making.
Muse released its Muse Spark Open and Reflection Beam models alongside multiple frontier and decision-model updates covered in this AINews roundup. Muse Spark Open is an 816B-total, 42B-active MoE with weights quantized so experts-only fit to about 530GB. As a result, open-weight licensing, pricing, and benchmark rankings shift across cost, agent performance, and inference hardware/serving notes.
StepFun released Step 5 Preview open-weight checkpoints, including FP8 and BF16, on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The model has 600B total parameters with 27B active per token and supports up to a 1M-token context. Developers can now self-host it for agentic coding and long-document/finance workflows, with specified data-center GPU requirements (4x B300 for FP8 or 8x B300 for BF16) instead of using only the API.
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