At its April 28 'What's Next with AWS' event, Amazon turned Connect into a four-product agentic AI family, debuted desktop assistant Amazon Quick, and previewed Bedrock Managed Agents running OpenAI's frontier models on AWS infrastructure.
Anthropic officially opened its Sydney office this week, naming former Snowflake executive Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand and reinforcing an earlier-April memorandum of understanding with the Australian government on AI deployment.
Google has entered a classified agreement allowing the US Department of Defense to deploy its AI models for any lawful government purpose, with non-binding limits on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
At its April 28 'What's Next with AWS' event, Amazon turned Connect into a four-product agentic AI family, debuted desktop assistant Amazon Quick, and previewed Bedrock Managed Agents running OpenAI's frontier models on AWS infrastructure.
Anthropic officially opened its Sydney office this week, naming former Snowflake executive Theo Hourmouzis as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand and reinforcing an earlier-April memorandum of understanding with the Australian government on AI deployment.
Google has entered a classified agreement allowing the US Department of Defense to deploy its AI models for any lawful government purpose, with non-binding limits on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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Opening statements in the Musk v. Altman OpenAI trial begin Tuesday in Oakland after Elon Musk dropped his fraud claims, leaving only breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment in front of a nine-person jury.
Google broke ground on a $15 billion, 1-gigawatt AI data centre in Visakhapatnam on April 28, 2026 — its first AI hub in India and one of the country's largest single foreign direct investments.
Brussels negotiators meet today aiming for a political deal on the AI Omnibus that would push the high-risk AI Act deadline back to December 2027 and lock in firm watermarking rules for synthetic content.
The April 27 amendment quietly kills the contractual trigger that would have voided Microsoft's IP rights to OpenAI's tech upon AGI achievement, replacing it with a non-exclusive license through 2032.
David Silver, the former DeepMind reinforcement learning lead behind AlphaZero, has launched UK lab Ineffable Intelligence with a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation — Europe's largest ever seed financing — to pursue AI that learns without human data.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is working on a smartphone that swaps traditional apps for AI agents, partnering with MediaTek, Qualcomm and Luxshare for a 2028 mass-production target.
Meta has agreed to take up to 1 gigawatt of space-beamed solar power from Virginia startup Overview Energy in a first-of-its-kind deal aimed at running AI data centers around the clock.
Adtech firm Magnite unveiled buyer and seller agents on Monday, kicking off live pilots that use Disney Advertising inventory with Publicis Media Exchange, Spectrum Reach, Kepler and MiQ.
DeepSeek slashed API prices for its newly released V4-Pro model by 75% through May 5, undercutting Western rivals and reigniting a price war among Chinese AI labs.
