Perplexity Goes Full Computer, Meta Bets $60B on AMD, and AI Agents Take Over Your Workflow

Perplexity Launches "Computer" -- A General-Purpose AI System That Does Everything

TLDR: Perplexity just unveiled Computer, a general-purpose AI system that can research, code, and deploy entire projects end-to-end using 19 specialized models. This is not another chatbot -- it is a system that takes over the full lifecycle of a software project.

Link: Introducing Perplexity Computer

Meta Signs $60 Billion Multi-Year Deal with AMD to Challenge Nvidia's GPU Dominance

TLDR: Meta and AMD announced a massive 6-gigawatt, multi-year partnership to deploy AMD Instinct GPUs at scale, with shipments starting in the second half of 2026. This is the most significant challenge to Nvidia's AI infrastructure monopoly we have seen so far.

Link: AMD and Meta Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership

Pentagon Threatens to Blacklist Anthropic Over AI Safeguards

TLDR: Defense Secretary Hegseth gave Anthropic until Friday to drop its AI safety restrictions or face being placed on the Pentagon blacklist and potential invocation of the Defense Production Act. This is a direct collision between AI safety principles and government power.

Link: Anthropic Pentagon Claude Hegseth

Cursor Ships Cloud Agents That Build Software in Their Own Virtual Machines

TLDR: Cursor launched cloud agents that run in isolated VMs with full development environments, can test their own changes, produce video artifacts for verification, and now generate over 30 percent of the PRs that Cursor itself merges. This is a fundamental shift in how AI-assisted development works.

Link: Cursor agents can now control their own computers

Notion Introduces Custom AI Agents for Autonomous Workflow Automation

TLDR: Notion launched Custom Agents that autonomously handle Q&A, task routing, status reports, and workflows across Notion, Slack, Mail, Calendar, Figma, Linear, and custom MCP servers. They already have more agents than employees internally, and early testers built over 21,000 agents.

Link: Introducing Custom Agents

Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council -- Open Source Tool for Multi-Model Peer Review

TLDR: Karpathy released LLM Council, an open-source web app that sends your query to multiple LLMs simultaneously, has them anonymously peer-review each other's responses, and then a "chairman" model synthesizes the final answer.

Link: LLM Council on GitHub

AI Investment Roundup: MatX, Basis, and Mistral's First Acquisition

TLDR: MatX raised $500M to build Nvidia-competing AI chips, Basis secured $100M at $1.15B valuation for AI accounting agents, and Mistral AI acquired cloud startup Koyeb to become a full-stack AI platform.

Link: MatX raises $500M | Mistral AI buys Koyeb