U.S. Mulls Per-Customer Cap on Nvidia Chip Sale to China
President Trump is counting on a face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make a deal on Nvidia’s access to China.
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OpenAI Updates Pentagon Agreement With Stronger Surveillance Protections
The changes tighten limits on how the military could use OpenAI models to track or monitor U.S. citizens.
BlackRock, EQT to Buy Energy Provider AES in $33.4 Billion Deal
Virginia-based AES runs consumer utility businesses and power projects that sell electricity to tech companies.
Apple Announces New Budget-Friendly iPhone
The company is expected to announce a new MacBook later this week
Anthropic Hits Top Spot in Apple’s U.S. App Store
The increase followed some backlash against rival OpenAI for its Pentagon agreement.
China’s MiniMax More Than Doubles Revenue in 2025
MiniMax continues to face fierce competition in China from tech giants and upstart rivals.
SpaceX Aims to Launch New Starlink Satellites With Faster Cell Service in 2027
SpaceX says the new satellites will eventually allow users to browse the internet, take video calls and stream videos when they’re outdoors or in vehicles at speeds akin to traditional wireless service.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Agreement
Altman said he expected the military to uphold the laws that prevent the activities, such as domestic mass surveillance, that OpenAI's corporate policy restricts.
Nvidia to Announce New Chip With Groq’s Technology
The move would be a break from Nvidia’s normal strategy, which is to develop chips that are more versatile to cater to the widest possible market.
Defense Secretary Hegseth Declares Anthropic Supply Chain Risk, Cutting It Off From Military Contractors
“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth said.
Crypto VC Giant Paradigm Raising Up to $1.5 Billion for New Fund
The venture firm is expanding into AI, robotics with the new fund, WSJ reports.
OpenAI Fires Employee for Prediction Market Trades
Markets about AI products have become common on Polymarket and Kalshi.
Trump Directs Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic’s AI
Trump’s statement came an hour before a deadline for Anthropic to agree to the Pentagon’s demands to make its AI available for “any lawful use” or face consequences.
OpenAI to Raise an Additional $10 Billion in Funding From Financial Investors
The additional funding will bring OpenAI's valuation, including the investment, to $850 billion.
OpenAI Branches Out from Microsoft with New Products For Amazon’s Cloud
Amazon will serve some new OpenAI applications on its cloud, but the AI models that power those applications will still run on Microsoft Azure.
OpenAI Lines Up $110 Billion in Funding From Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank
OpenAI says more financial investors will likely join the round.
xAI’s ‘Macrohard’ Chief Third Co-Founder to Leave This Month
Toby Pohlen is the latest high level staffer to leave xAI in recent weeks, coinciding with its acquisition by SpaceX.
Amazon and OpenAI Reach $50 Billion Investment Agreement
OpenAI committed to using Amazon's Trainium AI chips and to making Amazon's cloud unit the exclusive "third party" cloud provider of OpenAI's AI management tool Frontier.
Anthropic CEO Says Company Won’t Agree to Pentagon Demands
On Friday, Anthropic faces a deadline to agree to the Pentagon’s demands or potentially be forced to do so by law.
Exclusive: Anthropic Says Daily Signups to Claude Chatbot Tripled Since November
Paid subscribers of Anthropic's Claude chatbot have more than doubled since October while free users have grown by 60% in the last month, the company said.
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