China's Z AI unveils the record-breaking GLM-5.3-Flash, built entirely on domestic chips, as OpenAI's Sam Altman claims AGI is months away and small businesses gain a surprising edge over enterprises through deeply discounted AI pricing.
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts caught running a covert AI-powered disinformation campaign across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, promoting a fabricated organization with stolen academic content and a fake 'sovereignty index' designed to praise Russia while undermining Western nations.
Waymo is making its first move into the European Union, announcing plans to launch driverless ride-hailing services in Munich, Germany by the end of 2027, with mapping and testing operations set to begin in the coming weeks.
Mistral AI and HUMAIN are launching a multi-hundred-million-euro partnership to build sovereign AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, developing localized Arabic language, cybersecurity, and voice AI models for regulated industries including finance, telecom, and the public sector.
UNDP and the DFINITY Foundation are launching a pilot program to help governments build AI-powered apps free from U.S. cloud dependency, with five countries to be selected within a month amid growing concerns over foreign access to sensitive citizen data.
Opposition to data centers is surging across America, with 61% of Americans now against new construction in their area, prompting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to declare the industry 'dug their own grave' by failing to win community support, as governors in Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York impose new restrictions that …
Nine people, including employees from Nvidia and Super Micro, are charged by Taiwanese prosecutors for smuggling banned AI servers containing high-end B300 GPUs to China, with 74 servers successfully reaching the country through Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong before authorities intercepted 56 more.
Chinese state-affiliated hackers have more than doubled their cyberattack volume by integrating DeepSeek and other open-source AI models into their operations, using the technology to automate routine tasks and develop advanced malicious software, according to Taiwanese research firm TeamT5.
Chinese AI giants DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Z.ai are shaking up the enterprise AI market with cheaper, open-source models targeting coding and agentic workloads, directly challenging US leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic, though serious security concerns and trust issues remain significant obstacles to widespread adoption.
OpenAI and Anthropic are slashing mid-tier AI model prices by up to 80% as Chinese rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot force a fierce price war, with major US companies like DoorDash and Airbnb already switching to cheaper Chinese-made models to cut costs.