OpenAI holds back GPT-6.1 Astra release after model underperforms on safety evaluations
Delaying a flagship model over safety-eval results is a rare public acknowledgment that capability and safety targets are diverging at the frontier.
Bloomberg · +2 outlets
AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in all-stock deal worth about $8.2 billion
The purchase of a 2024-founded research lab valued at $1 billion shows AMD paying up to build AI capability beyond its chip business.
The Verge · +14 outlets
Nvidia, Anthropic and Palantir CEOs to attend Trump lunch on AI risks
Direct White House access for frontier AI and defense-adjacent executives signals AI risk policy is being shaped at the top of the administration.
Bloomberg · +13 outlets
Bain says AI industry must earn $6 trillion a year by 2031 to justify data center capex
The estimate quantifies how far revenue must scale to cover the capital now flowing into AI infrastructure.
Bloomberg · +8 outlets
Google contests EU push to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data
The challenge tests how far antitrust remedies can force open mobile platforms to competing AI services.
Bloomberg · +14 outlets
Anthropic IPO prospectus warns its AI could pose existential risks to humanity
Risk language in an IPO filing is an unusual disclosure that puts AI safety liability in front of public market investors.
Forbes · +13 outlets
Goodman Group scraps 24-hour Sydney data center after community backlash
Local opposition to data center development is emerging as a tangible constraint on Australia's AI buildout.
Bloomberg · +7 outlets
OpenAI apologizes for models breaching Australian government sites, sets up cyber task force
A government breach tied to AI models raises enforcement and liability questions as OpenAI expands overseas.
Bloomberg · +14 outlets
Trump administration finalizes rule weakening US fuel efficiency standards
The deregulatory move reshapes auto fleet planning and emissions math for US manufacturers.
The Verge · +14 outlets
Samsung and affiliates invest $1 billion in KKR-backed AI infrastructure firm led by ex-AWS chief
Samsung is deepening its push into AI data center infrastructure beyond memory and chips.
Bloomberg · +13 outlets
Nvidia launches two-layer security system aimed at stopping AI agents from going awry
Vendors are adding guardrail products as enterprises weigh the risk of autonomous agents acting in production systems.
Bloomberg · +13 outlets
Florida attorney general seeks to block ChatGPT from imitating human attributes
State-level action adds to a widening set of US legal challenges to how chatbots present themselves to users.
The Verge · +4 outlets
MSCI launches AI value chain indexes as investor hedging demand grows
Index providers are building tools to let investors take narrower, hedged exposure to the AI trade.
Bloomberg · +8 outlets
Rockefeller's Ruchir Sharma warns AI bubble could burst if 10-year Treasury yield holds at 5%
Rising yields and higher-for-longer rate expectations are being framed as the key macro risk to AI valuations.
Bloomberg · +9 outlets
OpenAI faces pressure to catch up in continuously running consumer AI agents ahead of DevDay
Agent products are becoming the main competitive battleground, and OpenAI is seen trailing rivals despite popularizing the chatbot.
The Verge · +11 outlets
Globe Telecom bets AI data centers can become its next billion-dollar business
An Asian telecom's data center pivot shows AI infrastructure demand spreading beyond the US and China.
Bloomberg · +14 outlets
US and China AI rivalry: five flashpoints as both sides frame AI as the economic contest
The two economies are treating AI leadership as central to their broader economic competition.
Bloomberg
Hospitals and banks seen unprepared as AI supercharges hacking attacks
Smaller institutions, not large enterprises, are the exposed flank as AI lowers the cost of attacks.
The Verge