France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says
France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wi [...]
Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity
Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing [...]
US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply
US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switc [...]
GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scores 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just one point behind Claude Fable 5. At $1.04 per task, it costs a third of what Anthropic's top model c [...]
The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit [...]
MiniMax’s CEO won’t take a salary until AGI. His company just raised $2bn after an 80% crash
The letter reads like a founder’s article of faith. The share sale underneath it tells a harder story. The founder of MiniMax has told staff he will take no salary until the Chinese AI company build [...]
Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside an AI war simulation
Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a £2bn ($2.7bn) contract to tr [...]