President Trump and top tech CEOs join forces, announcing massive US investments to power American supremacy in the rapidly advancing artificial intelligence frontier, hailing pro-business policies as fueling AI innovation and growth.
In a meeting with President Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces a staggering $600 billion US investment plan by 2028, only to admit in a hot mic gaffe that he fabricated the figure, while tech rivals share AI investment plans.
Trump hosts 33 tech titans for White House dinner, where attendees pledge billions in U.S. investments, signaling industry's warming ties with administration despite notable absences like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang.
Mistral, a French AI startup rivaling OpenAI, secures a staggering €2 billion at a $14 billion valuation, fueling the European AI boom with its open-source language models and chatbot Le Chat, as European AI startups gain momentum with a 55% surge in Q1 2025 investments.
Switzerland unveils Apertus, a 100% open, multilingual AI model built by public institutions for public good, trained on over 1,000 languages with transparency and compliance as core principles, demonstrating generative AI can be powerful and open.
Melania Trump highlights the importance of teaching AI literacy to students from an early age, stating 'the robots are here,' as the White House emphasizes AI in K-12 education for American competitiveness, with major tech firms pledging new commitments to the initiative.
DeepSeek unveils an advanced AI agent model capable of carrying out multi-step actions with minimal direction, aiming to rival OpenAI's capabilities by the end of 2025 following the success of its R1 model.
At the SCO Summit, China's President Xi Jinping calls for strengthening artificial intelligence cooperation among members, rejects a 'Cold War mentality', proposes a new 'Global Governance Initiative', and urges peaceful coexistence without imposing rules of a few countries on others.
Korean tech titans LG, Naver, SKT, Upstage, and NC AI unveil homegrown AI models like Exaone, A.X, Solar Pro, and HyperClova X, tailored for Korean language and context, aiming to match 95% performance of ChatGPT as part of government's 'sovereign AI' push.
China unveils ambitious 5-year plan to accelerate development of brain-computer interface technology, aiming to create groundbreaking medical devices and consumer products that directly link the brain to computers, with Chinese companies already testing BCI implants in patients.