Anthropic launches the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a universal USB-C-like interface enabling AI agents to seamlessly operate physical machinery across industries like robotics and manufacturing, with plans to open-source the technology as competition with OpenAI and Amazon intensifies.
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a powerful generative video model giving developers 4K upscaling, 40-second scene extension, and 60% faster draft previews at one-third the cost, available now via Google AI Studio with early adopters like Adobe and Figma already on board.
The Trump administration's sweeping semiconductor tariffs threaten a $90 billion annual GDP hit, with tech leaders warning the plan is catastrophically misguided as domestic chip manufacturing capacity remains years away from offsetting the damage caused by taxing imported semiconductors.
Meta busts an Iran-linked influence operation using AI-generated content to spread anti-Republican messaging on Facebook and Instagram, where fake accounts posing as everyday Americans amass over 79,400 followers while targeting U.S. audiences on immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Nvidia is optimizing its hardware for Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen while warning investors of major business risks if the Trump administration restricts support for Chinese open-source AI, as U.S. lawmakers raise alarms over China's growing global AI influence.
OpenAI launches commercial operations in São Paulo as Brazil emerges as one of ChatGPT's three largest global markets, with users sending 215 million daily messages and AI projected to add nearly R$1 trillion to Brazil's economy by 2030.
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil 'Claudeforce,' a groundbreaking plugin embedding Salesforce data directly into Claude with 37 pre-built sales skills, marking the first time Salesforce has attached its iconic 'force' suffix to another company's product, sending Salesforce shares surging 12% in extended trading.
Anthropic secures a massive $45 billion cloud deal with UK-based Nscale, locking in 460 megawatts of AI compute capacity at a West Virginia data center powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera Rubin chips, set to go live in 2027.
Google is nearing a $1.5 billion deal to license technology from AI coding startup Mechanize, signaling an intensifying race among tech giants to dominate the AI coding agent market.
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a preview of its next-gen Qwen4 architecture boasting 125B parameters but activating only 6B per token, slashing compute costs by roughly a third while cleverly sidestepping US chip export restrictions — though its commercial licensing terms may put European users at legal risk under the EU AI …