India launches urgent $1.25 billion AI mission securing 19,000 GPUs to build six large-scale models by 2025, selecting Sarvam AI for a 70-billion-parameter model optimized for the country's 22 official languages after DeepSeek's breakthrough sparks global AI competition.
Pentagon receives orders to establish an Artificial Intelligence Futures Steering Committee by April 2026, tasked with developing policies for advanced military AI systems including artificial general intelligence while monitoring adversary capabilities and reporting findings to Congress by early 2027.
The European Union announces a massive €20 billion investment to construct five AI gigafactories across Europe, each housing 100,000 advanced AI chips to train complex models for medicine, cleantech, and space applications in a bold bid for technological independence from global competitors.
Europe prepares major AI deregulation package for 2026 to catch up with US and China dominance, as the continent struggles with low business adoption rates and hosts only a handful of AI models, while investor enthusiasm for AI technology may simultaneously peak and decline due to unmet promises and major …
Major technology companies launch their own media outlets and cozy up to friendly podcasters to bypass critical journalism, with leaders like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Altman seeking softball interviews that avoid tough questions about controversies while promoting their anti-regulation agenda.
MIT study finds artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce worth $1.2 trillion in wages, with routine jobs in HR, logistics, and office administration facing the highest risk as state governments scramble to develop AI workforce action plans.
Uber launches the Middle East's first fully driverless robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi through partnership with Chinese company WeRide, allowing users to book autonomous vehicles through UberX and Uber Comfort on Yas Island, with plans to expand to 15 more cities across Europe within five years.
Cohere expands its SAP partnership to deliver sovereign AI solutions meeting European data residency requirements, bringing its agentic AI platform North to SAP's cloud infrastructure for governments and regulated industries across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and public sectors.
Saudi Arabia deploys 600,000 Nvidia GPUs in massive AI infrastructure project while the U.S. government launches an AI Manhattan Project, taking direct equity stakes in tech companies and driving explosive 100-400% stock gains for government-backed firms.
House Homeland Security Committee summons tech CEOs including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian to testify December 17 about the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack, where Chinese state hackers used Claude Code with minimal human involvement in a cyber-espionage campaign.