Google, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI each receive $200 million contracts from Department of Defense
The Department of Defense is spending $800 million on “agentic AI workflows” and most of the big players are getting a slice of the pie. , OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI all received awards capping out at ...
Just 32 countries have an AI data center, but half are concentrated in just 5 of them
Only 32 countries in the world host AI computing data centers, resulting in an uneven distribution of resources for AI researchers, according to a new study from Oxford University. This leaves entire ...
Report: Huawei was slated to deliver the “full Chinese stack” for Malaysia’s sovereign AI
In the global race for AI, your “tech stack” really matters. The “stack” refers to the different layers of technology that make up modern AI infrastructure. To build your stack, you need to carefully ...
Nvidia teaming up with Taiwan to build its own AI supercomputer
Speaking at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company is partnering with two of Taiwan’s biggest tech companies — and Foxconn — to build Taiwan’s first A...
Billions from Nvidia’s “sovereign AI” deal with Saudi Arabia business could tamper effects of export controls
has been pursuing deals to help countries build and run their own domestically-produced “ sovereign AI .” CEO Jensen Huang has appeared in countries like Thailand, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates...
Super Micro surges after reaching $20 billion partnership agreement with Saudi Arabian data center firm
not the only AI-driven company signing big deals in Saudi Arabia . Shares of are surging after DataVolt, a data center firm in the Kingdom, announced a $20 billion multiyear deal to get its hands on ...
Nvidia surges on partnership with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund for “AI factories of the future”
Shares of are surging after the company announced a partnership with the AI arm of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to build “AI factories of the future” in the kingdom that will require “severa...
D-Wave CEO explains where the US is falling behind the rest of the world on quantum computing
To say that America is falling behind on any emergent technology is a bold statement. To say it of quantum computing might be even more eyebrow-raising, given that megacap tech companies like Amazon ,...
Ant Group boasts of breakthrough with new fast, cheap Chinese AI models
Ant Group, a digital payments company backed by Jack Ma, just released two new AI models: Ling-Plus and Ling-Lite. The models use a similar “mixture-of-experts” technique, like DeepSeek’s R1 models.
Baidu gets its own “reasoning” AI model
While DeepSeek’s fast, cheap, and open-source AI models may be getting all of the world’s attention, , one of China’s largest tech companies, is competing head-to-head with the smaller startup. This w...
Wary of US Big Tech, the EU looks to build its “EuroStack”
In the two months since President Trump took office, US allies have had to rapidly reconsider their longstanding relationships with the US. In trade, defense, and diplomacy, EU countries in particular...
Suddenly Alibaba’s new $53 billion commitment to AI doesn’t seem all that huge
Chinese e-commerce company wants to become an AI company, and it’s putting its money where its mouth is. Over the next three years, it’s committing $53 billion to AI infrastructure, including data ce...
Baidu offers its chatbot for free as OpenAI’s pay model gets more complicated
OpenAI’s product road map and pricing structure is getting more complicated . Over in China, says it will offer its Ernie AI chatbot for free to individual users starting in April. Previously, users ...
Google is the latest to praise — and criticize — DeepSeek
During earnings call last week, CEO Sundar Pichai was mostly effusive about DeepSeek , the Chinese company whose AI model has upended much of what American AI firms thought was possible for the price....
Trump signs order to create the first US sovereign wealth fund, eyes TikTok acquisition
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order to create the first US sovereign wealth fund. The investment initiative, which is expected to launch in the next 12 months, will be led by the US T...
Thailand taps Nvidia to build its sovereign AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has convinced another country to use his company’s chips to power its “ sovereign AI ” ambitions. Thailand’s Siam.AI Cloud, a cloud-computing company based in Bangkok, will hos...
Tech titans team up to sell AI to US defense and intelligence clients
Last week, the Biden administration directed the government to “Harness the Power of AI for US National Security” in the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI . AI companies got the message lo...
Meta wants the US to use its AI for defense and national security
wants the US government to use its Llama AI model for defense and national-security applications. In a press release announcing the new initiative, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, wrot...
Why countries are seeking to build “sovereign AI”
The King of Denmark just “plugged in” his country’s very own supercomputer, with CEO Jensen Huang by his side. The country’s new AI system is named “Gefion,” after a goddess from Danish mythology, an...