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

Image Credits: Generated with Gemini Accenture and Mistral AI announced a multi-year strategic collaboration designed to help organizations in Europe and globally scale advanced AI with regional compliance and strategic autonomy.  The partnership will co-develop and deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions that address real industry challenges, combining Mistral AI's scientific innovation and enterprise AI products with Accenture's capabilities in AI architecture, governance, an

Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30 billion investment into OpenAI that will replace the long-term $100 billion commitment agreed upon by the companies last year. The deal, which may be finalized as soon as this weekend, is expected to be part of a new funding round for the AI startup that could value OpenAI at approximately $830 billion. OpenAI plans to reinvest a significant portion of the new funds into Nvidia's hardware, but the companies will not move forward with the pr

Alibaba Group recently launched Qwen 3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight AI model with visual agentic features that enable it to execute actions autonomously across mobile and desktop platforms.  The new model activates only 17 billion parameters during each forward pass through a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture, delivering what Alibaba claims is 60 percent lower operating costs and eight times better efficiency for large-scale workloads compared to the previous g

Image Credits: Generated with Gemini Anthropic announced on 13th February that it closed a Series G funding round raising $30 billion at a post money valuation of $380 billion, more than doubling its September 2025 valuation and marking the second largest private tech fundraising on record after OpenAI.  The round includes investments from NVIDIA and Microsoft that were first announced in November 2025, with NVIDIA committing $10 billion and Microsoft committing $5 billion. A

The Indian government notified amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules on 10th February, formally bringing AI generated content within India's intermediary regulation framework for the first time.  The amendments, set to take effect 20th February, mandate that all synthetically generated audio, visual, or audiovisual content appearing real must be prominently labeled as AI generated before publication on any platf

xAI co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba resigned on 10th February, leaving the company they started with Elon Musk less than three years ago. The departures mean six of xAI's 12 original co-founders have now left the company. Wu announced his exit on 9th February in a post on X, followed by Ba the next day, who said it was his last day at the firm (Bloomberg, 2026). Neither detailed their reasons for leaving or outlined next plans, though both thanked Musk in their posts. The Fi

At a summit on responsible military use of AI in Spain, 35 of 85 participating countries agreed to a political declaration on how they will develop and deploy AI in warfare, while the United States and China declined to sign.  The non-binding declaration endorses states to maintain human responsibility over AI enabled weapon systems, ensure clear chains of command, and share information about national oversight where security considerations allow. It also calls for rigorous t

Image Credit: Generated with Gemini Britain has announced a new partnership with Microsoft, academic researchers and technical experts to build a national framework for detecting harmful deepfakes online.  The project will evaluate tools that can spot deceptive AI generated audio and video and will be used to set consistent standards for how platforms and companies should assess deepfake detection technologies. The partnership is part of a broader effort to define benchmarks

Image Credit: Generated with Gemini The Trump administration is prepared to allow China’s ByteDance to purchase Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips, but the sale is on hold because Nvidia has not agreed to the conditions attached to the export license.  The United States indicated about two weeks ago that it would approve the license, but the draft terms include a Know-Your-Customer requirement designed to ensure China’s military cannot access the chips, along with ot

Andhra Pradesh recently announced that it will establish India's first fully dedicated Artificial Intelligence university in Amaravati in partnership with Nvidia.. The AI university was conceptualized following discussions held in 2024 between Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Naral Lokesh and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Mumbai. The initiative aims to position Amaravati as a major hub for AI education, research, and innovation at both national and global scales. Union IT Minister Ash

Amazon is in discussions to invest as much as $50 billion in OpenAI, according to a Reuters report on 30th January. CEO Andy Jassy is leading negotiations as OpenAI attempts to raise approximately $100 billion total. The proposed investment comes as OpenAI faces mounting competition from rivals Anthropic and Google. In December, OpenAI issued an internal "code red" alert after Google's Gemini 3 received favorable reviews. OpenAI is now working to catch up in AI coding capabil

Tesla announced on 28th January that it will invest 2 billion dollars in xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by CEO Elon Musk. This is the first time such a large investment has been made by the electric vehicle manufacturer to AI development outside of its automotive operations. Alongside the investment announcement, Tesla reiterated that production plans for its Cybercab robotaxi and Semi trucks remain on track to begin this year. The company has previously sta

India's Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser released a white paper on 23rd January, outlining a "techno-legal" framework for AI governance that integrates legal safeguards, technical controls, and institutional mechanisms to balance innovation with risk.  The framework departs from prescriptive European approaches and data-restrictive Chinese models, proposing instead a governance-led ecosystem emphasizing responsible innovation and deployment. Central to the initiativ

The Indian Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Science on 23rd January to develop a fully indigenous artificial intelligence-based system through collaborative research and innovation.  The initiative aims to address emerging challenges in digital information landscapes and represents a strategic commitment to building self-reliant defense capabilities. The partnership brings together institutional military experience, academic expertise fro

Cloudflare announced on Thursday, 15th January, that it has acquired Human Native, an artificial intelligence data marketplace that facilitates transactions between AI developers and content creators. Human Native is a U.K.-based startup that manages agreements between developers who need training data for AI models and content creators who own the intellectual property being used. The acquisition gives Cloudflare ownership of the platform's infrastructure for managing these

Indian IT services company LTIMindtree secured a   ₹3,000 crore contract from the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) this week, to develop and manage an AI-driven tax analytics system called "Insight 2.0."  The contract led to company shares going up by over 4%. Tax authorities drown in data. Millions of returns filed annually, billions of data points, patterns that humans cannot detect fast enough to be useful. The CBDT needed an AI-powered system that could process this v

OpenAI and Cerebras announced a multi-year compute partnership on 14th January, in which Cerebras will provide dedicated infrastructure for OpenAI's models.  The arrangement involves a $10 billion commitment from OpenAI to secure computing capacity for running inference at scale. Cerebras stated that the partnership will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for complex, time-consuming tasks. OpenAI is no longer relying solely on internally-managed infrastructure o

Apple and Google announced on 12th January that they are partnering on artificial intelligence, with Google's Gemini models powering Apple's next-generation Siri voice assistant.  The multi-year agreement makes Google's technology the foundation for Apple's foundational models going forward, ending years of Apple pursuing AI independence. Apple stated that after "thorough assessment," Google's technology offers "the most robust foundation" for building AI systems at Apple sca

Torq, an AI-driven security operations platform, completed a $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures on 11th January, 2026. The round brings the company's total valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332 million. Existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Insight Ventures Partners had participated. Torq builds AI agents that automate security operations workflows such as alert triage, investigations, and response handling, at enterp

OpenAI and SoftBank Group announced a $1 billion co-investment into SB Energy on 9th January, to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure.  SB Energy will construct and manage a 1-gigawatt data center facility in Milam County, Texas, which was initially announced in September. The investment is part of the broader Stargate initiative announced last January, which targets $500 billion in total capital deployment. The partnership combines SoftBank and Ares Management's expe

Elon Musk's xAI closed a $20 billion Series E funding round on January 6, 2026, exceeding its original $15 billion target. The round included backing from Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, and strategic investors like Nvidia and Cisco. The company now sits at a $230 billion valuation. In 2025, OpenAI raised $40 billion, Anthropic raised $13 billion, and Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion. Roughly 15 AI companies collectiv

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a formal notice to X on January 1 flagging serious lapses in how the platform is managing Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot.  The government has directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical and governance review of Grok's prompt processing and output generation, with a requirement to submit a detailed action taken report within 72 hours. Rather than allowing companies to self-regulate AI safety, the government i

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at CES 2026 that the company's next-generation Vera Rubin platform is now in full production and will ship to customers including Microsoft and Amazon in the second half of 2026.  The announcement accelerates the timeline by six months compared to NVIDIA's previously stated schedule and just shows that demand for next-generation AI infrastructure is so urgent the company is ramping production ahead of schedule. The Vera Rubin platform compris

Five days after India's Ministry of Electronics issued a formal notice to X demanding a comprehensive review of Grok's safety failures, X has still not submitted the required compliance report.  The government responded on January 6 by issuing a formal directive requiring the immediate removal of all vulgar and obscene content generated by Grok, with a new 24-hour compliance window closing January 7 at midnight. The first notice had given X a period of 72 hours to conduct a t

Qualcomm announced a full suite of robotics technologies designed to power physical artificial intelligence systems ranging from household robots to full-size humanoids.  Technology companies approach AI deployment differently now, moving from software-first to hardware-centric strategies where processors, chipsets, and sensor integration become the actual competitive differentiator. The portfolio includes processors specifically designed for robotic inference, computer visio

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a formal notice to X on January 1 flagging serious lapses in how the platform is managing Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot.  The government has directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical and governance review of Grok's prompt processing and output generation, with a requirement to submit a detailed action taken report within 72 hours. Rather than allowing companies to self-regulate AI safety, the government i

Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup, for more than $2 billion on December 30. Manus launched in spring 2025 and reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue by December, making it one of the fastest-growing AI applications. Meta has invested heavily in building its own AI models such as Llama and Meta AI, but these internal efforts apparently moved too slowly for Zuckerberg. Rather than wait for internal teams to build agent capabilities, Meta purchase