The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing six major Chinese AI firms — including DeepSeek and Alibaba — of conducting industrial-scale attacks to steal US frontier AI technology, urging American companies to secretly downgrade suspected attackers, as tensions escalate ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
French AI startup Mistral secures a record-breaking €3B Series D funding round, valuing the company at over €21B in the largest European tech fundraise ever, just three years after its founding, with Samsung Electronics leading the round to fuel global expansion and sovereign AI development.
Mark Zuckerberg personally calls President Trump to block a proposed national AI regulator, warning it could cost the U.S. its competitive edge over China, as the White House weighs two rival oversight models backed by opposing factions of the tech world.
The Pentagon directly contradicts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that Anthropic has resolved its issues with the Trump administration, with Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael confirming the Defense Department's supply-chain risk designation against the AI company remains fully in effect.
ByteDance, led personally by founder Zhang Yiming, is racing to launch a cutting-edge AI spatial video generation model as soon as next month, directly challenging Meta and Alphabet in the high-stakes world models arena with major implications for robotics and autonomous systems.
Mark Zuckerberg personally calls Trump to oppose a national AI regulatory body, and as every binding oversight proposal gets quietly softened to voluntary, questions mount over whether Big Tech is effectively writing its own rules.
All G20 nations unanimously endorse a US-proposed framework for lighter AI regulation, handing a major victory to the Trump administration and Silicon Valley in a historic global shift toward less restrictive AI governance.
Anthropic is back in the Trump administration's good graces, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declaring the AI company is 'back on the right side' as co-founder Tom Brown takes a leading role in mending White House relations, even as Anthropic continues fighting a separate Pentagon designation in federal court.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, a smarter and cost-efficient AI model, alongside a restricted cybersecurity variant capable of autonomous vulnerability discovery and automated patching, available exclusively to trusted government and critical infrastructure defenders through its new Fairwind Program.
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek, granting the Taiwanese chipmaker access to its NVLink Fusion ecosystem to design custom AI chips, as Nvidia fights to stay dominant amid rising competition from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft building their own silicon.