SpaceX has reached an agreement with Google Cloud to access artificial intelligence computing infrastructure, adding a significant technology partnership as the company prepares for a public listing later this year. The deal follows a separate pact with AI startup Anthropic announced last month, under which SpaceX will use Claude models for internal automation and satellite operations. Together, the two agreements signal that SpaceX, known primarily for rockets and Starlink

Meta introduced a new AI agent for businesses on June 3, positioning the tool to compete with Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google in the market for workplace automation. The product, called Meta Business Agent, is built on the company's Llama 5 model and can handle tasks such as scheduling, expense reporting, customer support, and internal data analysis without requiring users to switch between multiple applications. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, said the agent was d

AirTrunk, the Australian data centre operator, announced on 1st June that it will invest $21 billion in India over the next decade, a capital outlay that ranks among the largest foreign investments in the country's digital infrastructure. The bulk of the spending will go toward building hyperscale data centres in Mumbai, Chennai, and the National Capital Region, with the first facility expected to open in Mumbai by early 2028. AirTrunk founder and chief executive Robin Khuda

The U.S. Commerce Department proposed a rule on June 1 that would block Nvidia from selling advanced artificial intelligence chips to Chinese companies through their subsidiaries in third countries, aiming to close a widely exploited loophole in export controls. The proposed regulation extends licensing requirements to cover sales of Nvidia’s H200 and B200 processors to any entity globally that is more than 25 percent owned by a Chinese parent company. Until now, restrictions

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, a new flagship AI model that the company says outperforms competitors from OpenAI, Google, and Meta across major reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model arrives roughly five months after Claude 4.5 Sonnet and marks a return to the Opus line, which Anthropic had previously paused to work on efficiency and safety. Chief product officer Mike Krieger said Opus 4.8 was trained with a focus on extended reasoning tasks, allowing it to

South Africa's communications minister Solly Malatsi unveiled a seven-member expert review panel on May 26 to guide the redrafting of the country's national AI policy, one month after the original draft was withdrawn when it was found to contain fictitious academic references generated by AI. Briefing parliament's portfolio committee on communications and digital technologies, Malatsi acknowledged that the department had failed to detect the fabricated citations before they w

In Beijing this month, Trump and Xi met for the first time in over six months, with AI now sitting alongside trade, Iran, Taiwan and nuclear issues on the agenda. Trump has been explicit that he wants to remind Xi that the United States leads in artificial intelligence, framing AI as a core part of the broader power balance between Washington and Beijing. At the working level, officials from both sides have started talking about “guardrails” for advanced AI models, with plans

Meta has offered rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI, limited free access to WhatsApp in Europe, according to sources cited by Reuters, but the offer would switch to paid access once usage crosses a messaging threshold. The proposal was submitted to EU antitrust regulators last week as the European Commission considers whether to require Meta to provide access while its investigation continues. WhatsApp is one of the largest consumer messaging platforms in the world, and acce

Huawei announced on May 25 that its upcoming Kirin smartphone chips, set to launch this fall, will be the first to use a new design approach called LogicFolding. The announcement, made at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai, marks the company's latest attempt to advance its semiconductor capabilities despite ongoing U.S. restrictions that limit its access to cutting-edge manufacturing equipment.. He Tingbo, president of Huawei's semicondu

Nvidia will invest roughly $150 billion each year in Taiwan, CEO Jensen Huang said on May 27, describing the island as the centre of the global AI supply chain. It is a sharp increase from the $10 to $15 billion the company spent annually four to five years ago and the roughly $100 billion it is spending now. Huang made the announcement at a launch event for Nvidia's new Taipei headquarters, a building named Constellation that will break ground late this year and open by 2030