Anthropic pitched the Pentagon on a $100M drone swarm challenge while simultaneously negotiating red lines on military AI use, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now orders the Pentagon to bar contractors from doing business with the company.
SpaceX is targeting a confidential IPO filing with the SEC as soon as March 2026, with a potential June listing that could become the biggest IPO in history, potentially paving the way for AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic to follow.
President Trump meets with top tech CEOs from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others at the White House to sign a landmark AI power pledge, requiring companies to self-supply energy for data centers and protect Americans from rising electricity costs driven by surging AI demand.
Anthropic exposes three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — running an industrial-scale operation using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct over 16 million illicit exchanges, stealing Claude's capabilities while bypassing critical safety safeguards designed to prevent misuse for bioweapons and cyberattacks.
OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei make their fierce rivalry impossible to ignore, refusing to make eye contact or hold hands during a group photo with Indian Prime Minister Modi as their companies battle for AI dominance amid a $380 billion valuation surge and a very public Super Bowl …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urgently calls for global AI regulation and an international oversight body at New Delhi's AI Impact Summit, warning that open-source biomodels pose serious bioweapon risks, while announcing a major partnership with TCS to expand AI infrastructure in India, where ChatGPT now serves 100 million weekly users.
Mukesh Ambani unveils a massive $110 billion plan to build gigawatt-scale AI data centers and edge computing infrastructure across India over seven years, aiming to slash AI costs, boost local-language AI, and position India as a global compute powerhouse amid a broader national AI investment surge exceeding $200 billion.
China displays advanced humanoid robots performing flawless martial arts and dance routines on national television during the Spring Festival Gala, signaling technological dominance as the country's robotics industry reaches $932 billion with experts calling it strategic propaganda against US competition.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot seeks a massive $10 billion valuation while open source competitors like Mistral AI gain serious momentum with $1.4 billion data center investments and hundreds of millions in revenue, signaling a dramatic shift in the AI arms race toward efficiency over raw performance.