In a groundbreaking partnership, NVIDIA and Intel invest billions to jointly develop cutting-edge AI-optimized data center and PC products, combining Intel's CPUs with NVIDIA's NVLink interconnect technology and NVIDIA's $5 billion investment in Intel common stock.
Google launches an AI-powered payments protocol that supports stablecoins, partnering with major companies like Coinbase, Salesforce, and American Express to enable secure transactions between AI agents.
Engineers unveil a water-powered humanoid robot with lifelike muscles, tendons, and ligaments that mimic human anatomy, allowing over 200 degrees of freedom and natural motion through a hydraulic 'heart' pumping water to move the artificial muscles.
MCP emerges as a vital AI infrastructure, powering top products from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, with a few key servers handling nearly half of all usage and supporting reading and writing operations for AI agents to interact with their environments.
OpenAI fuels rivalry with Elon Musk by hiring former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as compute spending czar, bringing expertise in securing billions for data center expansion.
Google introduces the Agent Payments Protocol, an open framework enabling secure agent-led transactions across platforms, collaborating with industry giants like Adyen, American Express, Mastercard, PayPal, and Salesforce to shape the future of agentic payments.
OpenAI intensifies robotics research, hiring experts in humanoid robots and algorithms, with job listings signaling focus on teleoperation and simulation for robot training, accelerating pursuit of artificial general intelligence.
Anthropic, a leading AI company, experiences a 30-minute service outage, disrupting its AI infrastructure including Claude.ai, API, and coding tools, forcing developers to temporarily 'code like cavemen' without AI assistance, highlighting the tech industry's reliance on AI.
AI-powered drone swarms revolutionize warfare tactics as the US labor market cools amid Trump's tariffs, while billionaire Larry Ellison's daughter pursues acquisition of Warner Bros to reshape Hollywood.
Disruptive AI defence tech startups Anduril and Helsing ignite an arms race, attracting $7bn in venture capital as global military spending skyrockets, challenging traditional prime contractors with cutting-edge autonomous systems and rapidly rising valuations.