Investors are focusing on artificial intelligence rather than trade politics ahead of a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. For many of them, the most important issue is whether the United States might ease restrictions on advanced AI chip exports to China. A few investors expect a major diplomatic breakthrough from the meeting itself. Instead, attention has shifted to the policies that could shape AI development, particularly around

The sales pitch is simple: add AI to your stack and you will work faster, look smarter, and finally “keep up.” What small businesses rarely see in the deck is the footnote: the same technology is making them a more attractive target. In 2025, four in five small businesses reported at least one security or data breach in the past 12 months, and recent analysis shows that a growing share of those incidents now involve AI somewhere in the attack chain (TechXplore, 2026). One r

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

Microsoft is exploring acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups as it looks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI. The company is pursuing two priorities at once: bringing in AI talent and supporting its effort to build a frontier AI model of its own by next year. Reuters reported that Microsoft had considered acquiring Cursor, the fast-growing code generation startup, earlier this spring (Reuters, 2026). The company ultimately stepped away because of concerns that the d

Nokia announced on 12th May that it has launched new agentic AI capabilities for home and broadband networks, adding AI agents and natural-language interaction across its Altiplano, Corteca, and Broadband Easy platforms. According to the company, the new capabilities are designed to support telecom providers across customer care, network engineering, operations, sales, and field technician workflows. Nokia said the tools can be used for planning, rollout, service qualificatio

Elon Musk has lost a key round in his legal fight against OpenAI. Reuters reported on May 18 that a federal jury did not accept Musk’s claim that OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had broken their agreement with him over the company’s direction. The case had become one of the most closely watched disputes in AI because it turned a personal and ideological split into a courtroom battle over what OpenAI was supposed to be. Musk argued that the compan

OpenAI said on Monday that it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment and acquiring AI consulting firm Tomoro to speed up the effort. This new unit, called OpenAI Deployment Company, is built around sending engineers into organisations so they can work through the awkward, expensive, and time-consuming part of AI adoption with the people who actually have to live with it day to day. For all the industry’s confidence about AI becoming centra

There is a difference between using AI and disappearing behind it. It’s not just about “don’t trust the model too much.” It is about which tasks, if you outsource them completely, will quietly erode your judgment, your relationships, or your responsibility in ways that are hard to get back. We already know that people tend to lean too heavily on automated systems, a pattern researchers call automation bias, which is the tendency to treat automated recommendations as a short

Anthropic has committed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years, according to a report cited by Reuters, in a deal that reportedly covers cloud services and chip capacity (Reuters, 2026). The same report said the agreement includes multiple gigawatts of tensor processing unit capacity expected to come online from 2027. Access to compute is no longer a background requirement that companies sort out after building a model; it is becoming the centre of strategy,

The European Union has reached a provisional deal to delay some of the most consequential parts of its AI Act, pushing rules for high-risk systems involving biometrics, critical infrastructure and law enforcement to December 2, 2027 from the earlier August 2026 deadline. The agreement still needs formal approval from EU governments and the European Parliament, but the direction is already clear enough (Reuters, 2026). The shift came after a steady campaign from major European