Good morning, and welcome back to Techzip AI Newsletter.

Today’s issue tracks four developments: DeepSeek and Huawei’s reported Ascend AI chip-design work, with a public software partnership and a 128-chip supernode; Nscale’s proposed $45 billion Anthropic cloud deal for a 460 MW facility, still under negotiation; OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra benchmarks for low-resource programming and COBOL migration, including 87.4% on MultiLangBench and 97.9% on a high-effort COBOL task; and agent deployment, from Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 and Bolt for enterprise and local PCs to Meta’s Muse Glimmer 30B for personal devices.