The General Services Administration unveils USAi, a secure AI platform enabling federal agencies to test and adopt artificial intelligence technologies at scale, supporting the White House's plan to strengthen U.S. leadership in AI.
SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio plant to produce AI servers for its Stargate data center project, a collaboration with OpenAI and Oracle, shifting the factory's original plan for electric vehicle manufacturing.
Amazon Web Services commits to providing U.S. federal agencies up to $1 billion in cloud service discounts through 2028, joining Oracle and OpenAI in major deals aimed at accelerating government digital transformation and AI adoption.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1, a powerful language model, joins the GitHub Copilot lineup, offering enhanced AI assistance for developers on Copilot Enterprise and Pro+ plans, pending administrator approval.
Tailscale introduces an innovative method for securing Model Context Protocol servers by hosting them on remote Tailscale nodes and leveraging Tailscale's network and permissions model, providing code for a secure MCP connectivity solution.
Amazon braces for a massive $100 billion capital expenditure in 2025, while tech giants Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet unleash a staggering $315 billion investment spree this year, with Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit anticipating 'lumpy' growth in the coming years.
Docker unveils the MCP Catalog and Toolkit, a centralized registry of over 100 verified containerized AI tools, streamlining discovery, secure execution, and integration of MCP servers for AI developers from Docker Desktop.
Anthropic engineers adapt to AI coding agents like Claude Code, exploring in a webinar how these agents change developer experience, enable secure scalable workflows, and predict the future of AI-integrated software development alongside leaders from Coder.
Major tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google are ramping up their AI investments to a staggering $325 billion in 2025, a 46% surge from 2024, despite investors' concerns over the lack of clear revenue streams from AI offerings, as these companies bet big on long-term payoffs.
Amid rising U.S.-China tensions and recent layoffs at Amazon Web Services, the tech giant shuts down its AI research lab in Shanghai as part of strategic adjustments and reassessment of operations in China.