Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected
Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected

Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company’s AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, four months after a restructuring that was supposed to speed things up. “The kind of trajectory of the agentic development over …

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it wo…

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers
Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft’s…

Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine
Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine

The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Google’s final appeal against a €4.1 billion antitrust fine, ending an eight-year fight over how the company built Android into a vehicle for its search and browser dominance. The ruling, handed …

Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later
Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later

Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wed…

US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models
US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models

The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Financial Times, with an announcement said to be possible within the next week. The standards would reportedly set benchmarks …

Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers
Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers

Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China. The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwa…

OpenAI has reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth $42.6bn
OpenAI has reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth $42.6bn

OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% equity stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as the White House and Silicon Valley’s best-funded startup edge closer to a deal that has been under discussion for more than a year. At …

Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform
Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform

Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Depart…

Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energ…