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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

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

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

SpaceX has signed a deal to give Anthropic access to Colossus 1, its large AI data center in Memphis, bringing together two of the more prominent companies in the current AI infrastructure race. Under the agreement, Anthropic will use the full computing power of the facility to expand capacity for its Claude Pro and Claude Max assistants and raise usage limits for subscribers. Colossus 1 houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give Anthropic 300 megawatts of new c

Anthropic has launched 10 new AI agents for banks and insurers, deepening its push into financial services. The announcement places the company more directly in a sector where software adoption tends to be shaped by process, documentation, and internal controls rather than by novelty alone. Anthropic is trying to position its products closer to day-to-day institutional work. In banking and insurance, the value of AI depends less on broad capability claims and more on whether

The U.S. Defense Department has reached agreements with several leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Reflection AI, to support deployment on classified government networks. Nowadays, AI is moving further into the core of state infrastructure, especially in areas tied to defence, intelligence, and sensitive public systems. One notable absence from the list was Anthropic. Anthropic was left out

The Delhi government is planning to work with technology companies, startups, and research institutions to bring AI tools into areas such as governance, health, education, air quality monitoring, and mobility. The move suggests the government wants to treat AI as an administrative tool rather than a future-facing slogan. According to reports, the Information Technology Department has invited organisations to present commercially available AI systems with proven use in public

Maharashtra announced AI Policy 2026 on April 29, with a planned investment push of ₹10,000 crore and a target of creating 1.5 lakh jobs by 2031. It’s highly suggestive that Maharashtra wants to move early in India’s emerging competition to attract AI investment, companies, and talent. Rather than treating AI as a narrow technology initiative, the state is framing it as a broader economic strategy. Reports on the policy say Maharashtra plans to establish six AI hubs, support

China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus and ordered the deal to be unwound, turning what looked like a straightforward AI acquisition into a geopolitical one almost overnight (Reuters, 2026). This was not just another startup buy. Manus was meant to strengthen Meta’s position in AI agents, one of the most contested parts of the market right now, and Beijing’s intervention suggests that advanced AI capability is now being treated less like a commercial asset a

Google-parent Alphabet will invest $10 billion in Anthropic, with another $30 billion potentially to follow if the company hits performance targets. The deal values Anthropic at $350 billion and deepens Google’s relationship with a company that is both a partner and a rival in the AI race. That is what makes this more interesting than a big funding headline. It shows how strange the AI market has become. The biggest companies are no longer just building their own models. They

Volkswagen says it will start putting AI “agents” into new cars built for China from the second half of this year, as the company tries to catch up in a market where the car is no longer judged only by how it drives, but by how intelligently it behaves. For a long time, the logic of the car industry was mechanical and the metrics were performance, reliability, fuel economy, and design. Then it became electronic. Now it is becoming conversational, adaptive, and software-led. I

Vodafone is offering small businesses cybersecurity and AI tools through its partnership with Google Cloud, beginning in Germany and Greece before expanding into other European markets later this year (Reuters, 2026). The package includes a managed detection and response service powered by Google Security Operations, along with an AI concierge built on Google Gemini that can answer customer queries and book appointments over the phone. For the last two years, most AI has been

Adobe launched a new suite of AI tools for corporate clients on 20th April, positioning the company more aggressively in the race to sell artificial intelligence not just as a creative assistant, but as business software for large enterprises. The launch suggests Adobe is trying to push beyond its familiar image as a design and content company and make itself harder to ignore in the broader enterprise AI market. The AI market is becoming crowded in a very predictable way. A l

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly in talks to raise at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation (Reuters, 2026). If the deal goes through, it would mark a notable shift for a company that had previously resisted outside funding despite becoming one of the most closely watched names in AI. DeepSeek built its reputation by disrupting a market that many assumed was tilting irreversibly toward a handful of American firms with enormous capital and compute advantages.

American Express said it will acquire Hyper, the AI expense-management startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as it pushes deeper into AI-powered tools for business customers. That may sound small next to all the noise around frontier models and billion-dollar compute bets. It is not. Expense management is one of those dull, repetitive, deeply embedded workflows that companies cannot avoid, which is exactly why it is such valuable terrain for AI to capture. Hyper builds AI

Meta said this week that it is expanding its partnership with Broadcom to build several generations of custom AI processors, extending the relationship through 2029 as it races to add more computing capacity across its apps ( Reuters, 2026 ). The AI race is now looking less like a software competition and more like a struggle over who controls the stack. Meta is trying to secure the hardware foundation needed to keep shipping AI at planetary scale. The expanded deal includes

Amazon said on 14th April that it will acquire satellite firm Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, strengthening its satellite business as it tries to compete more seriously with SpaceX’s Starlink ( Reuters, 2026 ). Amazon’s satellite ambitions have so far looked more like a project than a position of strength. Buying Globalstar gives it access to an existing satellite constellation, infrastructure, and a faster route into a market where Starlink already has scale, customers

South Africa published a draft national AI policy on 10th April and opened it for public comment until 10th June. The draft is designed to regulate AI while also accelerating its adoption, which gives it a wider scope than a standard risk or ethics frameworks. It suggests that the government is treating AI as both a governance issue and an economic one, rather than separating regulation from development. The policy proposes a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, and an

CoreWeave recently said that it had entered into an expanded agreement to provide Meta with $21 billion in AI cloud capacity as Meta scales infrastructure for more complex AI workloads ( Reuters, 2026 ). CoreWeave said the agreement runs through December 2032 and adds dedicated capacity across multiple locations as part of a broader expansion of the companies’ existing relationship. Reuters reported that the new contract comes on top of a similar $14.2 billion agreement sig

Intel and Google recently announced that they were expanding their partnership to advance AI-focused central processing units and co-develop custom infrastructure processors, as demand for AI systems continues to increase pressure on computing infrastructure (Reuters, 2026). Under the agreement, Google will continue using Intel’s Xeon processors for workloads including inference and general-purpose computing, and will also adopt Intel’s newer Xeon 6 chips. The companies also

Meta, on 8th April, unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model released by its superintelligence team. The company said the model will power Meta AI and described it as part of its push toward what it calls “personal superintelligence”. The launch follows a period of heavy investment, restructuring, and hiring by Meta as it seeks to strengthen its position against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI market. Reuters also reported that early external evaluations found Muse Spa

Intel announced on 7th April that it will join Elon Musk’s Terafab AI chip project alongside SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI (Reuters, 2026). The move suggests that AI competition is becoming increasingly tied to manufacturing capacity and hardware partnerships, rather than remaining concentrated at the software and model layer. Reuters reported that Terafab is part of Musk’s broader plan to build advanced chip factories in Austin, Texas, including facilities intended to support cars,

With the launch of KiloClaw for Organizations, software provider Kilo has introduced a platform designed to help enterprises monitor and govern the use of autonomous AI agents across internal systems. The release comes amid growing adoption of what is often referred to as “Bring Your Own AI” (BYOAI), where employees independently deploy AI tools and agents outside formal procurement and IT oversight. While organisations have focused on securing large language models and vendo

China has approved its 15th Five-Year Plan, setting national priorities through 2030 across economic, industrial, and social systems. Artificial intelligence is referenced throughout the document as a key enabling technology across sectors. The plan places AI alongside quantum computing, biotechnology, and energy within its strategic science priorities. It calls for continued development of high-performance AI chips, supporting software, and research into model architectures

Alibaba’s latest AI launch is interesting not because it adds another chatbot to the market, but because it tries to collapse actual business work into a single AI layer. Alibaba’s international commerce division has launched Accio Work, a plug-and-play “AI taskforce” that it says can autonomously handle complex business operations for small and medium-sized enterprises. Most AI products still live in the realm of assistance. They help you write, summarize, search, or brainst

OpenAI is in advanced talks with private equity firms TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital, and Brookfield Asset Management to create a joint venture that would distribute its enterprise AI tools across their portfolio companies and beyond. The proposed venture carries a pre‑money valuation of around 10 billion dollars, with the private equity investors expected to commit roughly 4 billion dollars in capital in exchange for equity stakes and board representation. The deal

Amsterdam‑based AI infrastructure firm Nebius has signed a five‑year deal with Meta Platforms to provide 12 billion dollars’ worth of AI computing capacity by 2027, in a contract that could rise to 27 billion dollars if Meta purchases additional planned capacity. Under the agreement, Meta will have the option to buy a further 15 billion dollars of capacity that Nebius is building if it is not sold to other customers, effectively reserving a large slice of the company’s futur

Canadian telecom firm BCE has announced plans to invest an additional 1.7 billion dollars in a 300‑megawatt AI data centre in Saskatchewan, with AI firms Cerebras and CoreWeave already signed on as tenants. Bell Canada, BCE’s subsidiary, is working with the provincial government to build and operate what it says will be the largest purpose‑built AI data centre in Canada once complete. The project will be funded through a mix of debt and cash on hand, with BCE expecting around

Meta announced on Wednesday that it is developing four new generations of custom AI chips within the next two years to support its artificial intelligence workloads. The specialized chips are part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator family, which the company first revealed publicly in 2023 before releasing a second-generation version in 2024. The four new chips, identified as MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, are designed to enhance various aspects of Met

Amazon Web Services announced on Friday that it is deploying Cerebras Systems CS-3 chips in AWS data centers to deliver the fastest AI inference available in cloud computing. The partnership brings Cerebras's Wafer-Scale Engine, which has powered models for OpenAI, Cognition, and Meta at speeds reaching 3,000 tokens per second, to AWS's global customer base through AWS Bedrock. The service will support leading open-source language models and Amazon's Nova models. AWS and Cere

Manulife is moving artificial intelligence beyond customer support and into the core of its financial workflows. The Canadian insurer announced it is deploying agent‑based AI systems across internal operations to automate high‑volume work and support decision‑making in real time. These systems operate differently from chatbots because they can complete sequences of tasks across multiple software tools and datasets without waiting for new human prompts at each step. Manulife e

Anthropic filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab's contentious struggle with the U.S. military over restrictions on its technology's use. The Pentagon issued a formal supply chain risk classification for Anthropic last Thursday, limiting the use of the company's technology in various applications after negotiations between Anthropic and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth collaps

Meta is accelerating development of proprietary processors designed to train future artificial intelligence models, Meta CFO Susan Li confirmed Wednesday at a Morgan Stanley technology conference. The announcement shows that Meta intends to deepen its hardware sovereignty despite recently securing major supply agreements with Nvidia and AMD for chips and infrastructure that power the company's AI systems. Li emphasized that Meta's workloads are highly specialized, particula

Vietnam's Law on Artificial Intelligence officially entered into force on 1st March, making the country the first in Southeast Asia to enact comprehensive standalone legislation governing the development, deployment, and use of AI systems. The law, passed by the National Assembly in December 2025, with over 90% of deputies voting in favor, establishes a risk-based regulatory framework that classifies AI systems into high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk categories based on th

OpenAI announced that it is raising $110 billion in a funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion, marking one of the largest capital raises in technology history and underscoring the intense investment momentum in artificial intelligence. Major technology firms and investors including Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank are participating in the round, eager to establish closer partnerships with OpenAI as the company scales its data center infrastructure and po