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OpenAI and AWS announced a strategic partnership involving a $38B compute deal to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 chips, while Microsoft secured a license to ship NVIDIA GPUs to the UAE with a planned $7.9B datacenter investment. A 3-month NVFP4 kernel optimization competition on Blackwell B200s was launched by NVIDIA and GPU_MODE with prizes including DGX Spark and RTX 50XX GPUs. vLLM gains traction for local LLM serving, exemplified by PewDiePie's adoption. Alibaba previewed the Qwen3-Max-Thinking model hitting 100% on AIME 2025 and HMMT benchmarks, signaling advances in reasoning with tool use. The MIT-licensed MiniMax-M2 230B MoE model topped the Arena WebDev leaderboard, tying with Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking 32k. Critiques emerged on OSWorld benchmark stability and task validity. LlamaIndex's LIGHT framework demonstrated significant improvements in long-term memory tasks over raw context and RAG baselines, with gains up to +160.6% in summarization at 10M tokens. Amazon introduced Chronos-2, a time-series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. The MCP ecosystem expanded with new tools like mcp2py OAuth integration and Gemini Docs MCP server, alongside a build sprint by Anthropic and Gradio offering substantial credits and prizes. "OSWorld doesn’t really exist—different prompt sets = incomparable scores" highlights benchmarking challenges.