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DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.
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Iran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.
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Meta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.
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Downloads of mobile AI apps and resulting revenue are surging.
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OpenAI updated its flagship models, extending the ability to use tools and setting the state of the art on a handful of benchmarks, and priced them at the top of the market. Its coding and agentic abilities have enabled Codex, OpenAI’s competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Code, to leap ahead.
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Managers need to understand how their subordinates get work done, what resources they require, and what they accomplish. OpenAI’s latest product aims to fulfill this need when the teammates are AI agents.
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OpenAI signed a contract with the U.S. military to provide AI systems that securely process classified information, displacing Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI negotiated limits on how its technology can be used, but they leave room for interpretation.
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Google launched a cheaper, faster successor to its flagship image generator, delivering greater interactivity at roughly half the price.
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Makers of software that runs large companies saw their share prices plunge as investors worried that AI systems could undermine their businesses. This week, their stocks rebounded somewhat as Anthropic partnered with some of the same companies.
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The fourth global AI summit marked a decisive shift from focusing on theoretical hazards to spreading AI’s benefits throughout the world.
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Top tech and AI companies spent more than $100 million to influence government policy in 2025, the first time they exceeded that figure.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI, opening the door to richer financing of the merged entity’s AI research, a tighter focus on space applications of AI, and — if Musk’s dreams are realized — solar-powered data centers in space.