Breaking news: President Trump reverses stance, greenlights Nvidia's $4 trillion chip sales to China after CEO Jensen Huang's persuasive talks, abandoning previous plans to break up the market-dominant tech giant.
In a bid to boost US dominance in artificial intelligence, President Trump unveils an 'AI Action Plan' that seeks to cut environmental regulations for faster construction of AI supercomputers and data centers while promoting 'American values' to counter perceived liberal bias in AI systems.
OpenAI aggressively expands its AI capabilities, aiming for 1 million GPUs by year-end and an astonishing 100 million GPUs worth $3 trillion, fueling concerns about AI supremacy as its Texas data center becomes the world's largest at 1 gigawatt by 2026.
DeepSeek V3, OLMo 2, and Gemma 3 unleash groundbreaking transformer models, harnessing techniques like Multi-Head Latent Attention, QK-norm, and sliding window attention for improved efficiency, stability, and reduced memory footprint.
Rust dominates compute performance, outpacing Go and Python, while Python reigns in AI/ML and rapid prototyping, and Go excels in cloud-native tooling and microservices, with Rust commanding top salaries, Python offering abundant jobs, and steady Go demand for cloud and DevOps roles.
In a groundbreaking move, Apple secures a $500 million deal with MP Materials, the sole US-based rare earth mining company, to procure rare earth magnets for iPhones and other products, reducing its dependence on China for these critical minerals.
Nvidia and AMD restart AI chip sales to China as part of the recent US-China trade deal, with Nvidia receiving assurances from the US government and AMD expecting licenses for its chip exports.
AI's skyrocketing electricity demand, projected to more than double by 2030, fuels both opportunities to cut costs, enhance competitiveness, reduce emissions through energy sector innovation, and the urgent need for countries to invest in power generation, grids, data center efficiency, and cross-industry collaboration.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure investment, launching Superintelligence Labs and massive hiring spree while planning Prometheus supercluster for 2026 alongside additional multi-gigawatt facilities including Hyperion, plus a $14 billion Scale AI investment.
Xiaomi launches AI glasses in China, capitalizing on its ecosystem to offer hands-free capabilities for photography, videography, and office tasks, with early adopters praising their utility while anticipating future enhancements.