A small group of tech billionaires, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg, have amassed over $16 trillion in wealth while aggressively steering AI's future toward transhumanist goals, spending nearly $200 million to block regulation and operating largely beyond democratic oversight.
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI sign the White House 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge,' committing to fund their own electricity generation and grid upgrades to prevent AI datacenter expansion from driving up energy bills for American households and small businesses, though experts warn Trump's fossil fuel energy focus could …
Alibaba's Qwen AI team faces sudden instability as key technical leader Junyang Lin departs just one day after the Qwen 3.5 Small Model launch, with colleagues hinting the exit was involuntary and a second team member also signaling their departure.
India has blocked Supabase, a widely-used developer database platform, under Section 69A of the IT Act with no public explanation, disrupting developers and startups across major networks like Jio, Airtel, and ACT Fibernet, raising urgent concerns about the risks of building on platforms vulnerable to sudden, opaque government censorship orders.
President Trump meets with top tech CEOs from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others at the White House to sign a landmark AI power pledge, requiring companies to self-supply energy for data centers and protect Americans from rising electricity costs driven by surging AI demand.
Google, Anthropic, and India are reshaping the AI landscape as Gemini 3.1 Pro shatters reasoning benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 4.6 brings million-token context windows to free users, and India commits $200 billion toward AI infrastructure in a massive push to become a global tech powerhouse.
Anthropic exposes three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — running an industrial-scale operation using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct over 16 million illicit exchanges, stealing Claude's capabilities while bypassing critical safety safeguards designed to prevent misuse for bioweapons and cyberattacks.
OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
Trump's $500B Stargate AI initiative is stalling as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank clash over data center ownership, forcing a compromise where SoftBank owns a Texas facility while OpenAI controls its design — leaving the ambitious project far short of its original vision.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …