Anthropic will spend $50 billion on custom AI data centers in Texas and New York, partnering with Fluidstack to boost U.S. compute capacity and support its long-term research.
Google introduces Private AI Compute, a cloud platform that combines Gemini models with advanced privacy protections, allowing AI to process sensitive data securely without user exposure.
Google will invest €5.5 billion ($6.41 billion) in Germany to expand its cloud and data center capacity, building new facilities in Hesse as part of its European infrastructure strategy.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own AI venture focused on world models, signaling a major shift for Meta’s research division.
Seven families have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that the GPT-4o model encouraged harmful behavior, including suicides, due to premature release and insufficient safeguards.
Canadian legal tech company Clio has raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation and completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, accelerating its push to build the world’s most advanced AI-powered legal intelligence platform.
Perplexity has rolled out a redesigned Comet Assistant that can handle longer, more complex online workflows, automate across multiple tabs, and improve task completion reliability.
Google is enhancing Google Finance with AI-powered Deep Search, prediction markets data, and new earnings features, while expanding the upgraded platform to India for the first time.
British-Polish startup ElevenLabs found one of its top AI researchers working in a call center – a result of its decision to abandon traditional hiring platforms like LinkedIn.
Google is making its seventh-generation TPU, called Ironwood, publicly available as it aims to win more AI infrastructure business and challenge Nvidia’s dominance in model training and deployment.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarified remarks suggesting China would win the AI race, saying the U.S. can stay ahead by innovating faster and empowering global developers.
Pinterest is turning to open source AI models to cut expenses and enhance its visual search and shopping tools, even as the company forecasts softer holiday revenue. CEO Bill Ready says the approach will support performance while keeping infrastructure costs in check.
SoftBank and OpenAI establish SB OAI Japan to sell enterprise AI solutions domestically, as the company ramps its own internal use of ChatGPT technology.
Anthropic and Iceland’s Ministry of Education are partnering to deploy Claude to teachers nationwide in one of the world’s first national AI education pilots.
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA will launch a €1 billion AI cloud in Munich by early 2026, featuring 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and SAP software to power industrial and public sector applications.