DeepSeek's valuation more than doubles to $45 billion as the Chinese AI lab enters talks for its first-ever VC round, led by a Chinese state fund with Tencent and Alibaba also in discussions, signaling China's aggressive push to build homegrown AI rivaling the U.S.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is in talks with French President Emmanuel Macron over a multibillion-dollar AI data center investment in France, with Son reportedly floating a figure as high as $100 billion as part of a sweeping global push to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Apple and Intel strike a preliminary chip-making deal brokered with U.S. government involvement, sending Intel shares surging 13% and reuniting the two tech giants after Apple previously ditched Intel processors in favor of its own silicon.
AI is colliding with hard physical and geopolitical limits as chip shortages loom for up to five years, energy demands push Google toward space-based data centers, and nations resist foreign-controlled autonomous systems, while startups like Logical Intelligence challenge the dominance of large language models with leaner, physics-driven alternatives.
Greece is making history by proposing to enshrine AI protections directly into its constitution, requiring the technology to serve human freedom and social well-being as Prime Minister Mitsotakis warns future generations need safeguards against powerful tech platforms operating beyond public oversight.
Apple is in early talks with Intel and Samsung to manufacture its main processors on U.S. soil, signaling a major strategic shift away from its longtime reliance on Taiwan's TSMC.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
The Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Google, OpenAI, and five other tech giants for classified military networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk, though Anthropic's advanced Mythos AI model raises separate national security concerns that could open the door to a potential future deal.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sign landmark Pentagon deals to embed AI into classified military networks, while Anthropic stands alone, locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration after being flagged as a national security risk by the Defense Department.
The White House is drafting a sweeping AI policy memo requiring national security agencies to use multiple AI vendors, while also mandating that AI companies contracting with the Pentagon commit to not interfering with the military's chain of command.