Anthropic has signed over a dozen preliminary data center leases exceeding 1 gigawatt of capacity, pivoting from cloud rental to owning its own servers. The AI safety company is in discussions with Go…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed an 'Einstein test' for artificial general intelligence, requiring an AI to independently derive general relativity using only pre-1911 knowledge. He stated that no…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to US persons only, citing national security concerns. The move escalates a feud that began…
Ant Group is testing an AI agent interface for Alipay, launching AI Wallet and Token Pay to compete with Tencent's WeChat. Alipay AI Pay surpassed 100 million active users by February 2026, processing…
CoinFund founder Jake Brukhman advocates for decentralized AI networks built on distributed GPU resources as a counterbalance to Big Tech's control over artificial intelligence. CoinFund has raised $1…
The United Kingdom and Japan finalized a $24 billion investment and technology partnership covering AI, semiconductors, quantum tech, and life sciences, expected to create tens of thousands of jobs. P…
The Trump administration gave Anthropic a 90-minute ultimatum to restrict access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models to US citizens over national security concerns, prompting the company to withdraw…
Nearly $300 billion flooded into AI ventures in Q1 2026, representing 81% of global venture activity, as OpenAI raised $122 billion and Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion …
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are set to go public in 2026, with combined IPOs expected to raise over $200 billion, creating record wealth concentration. SpaceX's June IPO raised $75 billion at a $1.7…
Amazon Web Services disclosed that its data centers consumed approximately 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, the first time the company has reported an absolute annual figure. The disclosure comes…
The US Commerce Department forced Anthropic to suspend global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, citing national security concerns, cutting off India—its second-largest market—and sparking …
China is investing $162 million in an AI agent called Xinhua Yudian to promote Xi Jinping Thought, raising concerns that Western technology could be implicated in human rights abuses. The tool is desi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Bloomberg that the company's Claude AI model did not cross its ethical red lines when used during a US Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a girls' elementary school in M…
The United Kingdom and Japan are finalizing a technology and investment partnership worth over £18 billion ($24 billion), covering artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, and dual-…
OpenRouter launched Fusion API, a new feature that routes prompts to multiple AI models simultaneously to synthesize higher-quality responses. The system claims to match top-tier intelligence at half …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned Stanford students that the energy needed for computing could rise 1,000-fold due to always-on AI agents, far exceeding current capacity. He called for enhanced behind-th…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, three days after launch, citing export controls. The VVV token of decentralized AI platfo…
Matan Grinberg, founder and CEO of Factory, said value accrual in tech is time-dependent and that the US lacks frontier open models, which he called embarrassing. He argued that outsourcing AI develop…
The US Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on June 12 that immediately suspended foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, escalating a standoff that began when …
PJM Interconnection faces a projected 32 GW surge in peak demand by 2030, driven by AI data centers, prompting FERC to order new tariff rules for co-location arrangements. The capacity market prices h…