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.
A powerful AI super PAC launches a $10 million campaign to pressure Congress into creating federal AI regulations that would override state laws, with Trump backing the effort and Republicans pushing preemption language into spending bills while targeting New York lawmakers who support local AI safety measures.
HP announces plans to eliminate up to 6,000 jobs worldwide by 2028 as the tech giant restructures operations to focus on artificial intelligence while combating rising memory chip costs that threaten profits, expecting $1 billion in savings from the major workforce reduction.
Trump signs executive order launching the 'Genesis Mission,' a massive federal AI initiative compared to the Manhattan Project that centralizes government datasets and computing resources to accelerate scientific discovery and strengthen national security through new public-private partnerships with tech companies.
European Commission proposes major GDPR rollbacks allowing AI companies legal access to personal data for model training while extending grace periods for high-risk AI regulations, following intense pressure from Big Tech and US government amid fears strict rules hamper Europe's global AI competitiveness.
Microsoft Thailand constructs three data centers and launches ambitious initiative to train 300,000 professionals with AI credentials by 2026, while urging the government to prioritize artificial intelligence as national policy to transform local businesses into 'frontier firms' and boost exports.
Google DeepMind launches new Singapore research lab to advance AI development across Asia-Pacific, focusing on Gemini capabilities, linguistic inclusivity, and partnerships spanning Parkinson's disease research to Southeast Asian language models.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board and takes leave from Harvard as controversy erupts over newly released emails with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting federal investigations and bipartisan congressional action to release all DOJ files on the disgraced financier.