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Abu Dhabi's MGX, the UK's pension protection fund, and Japanese banking giant SoftBank have committed to OpenAI's flagship infrastructure program, creating an unprecedented financial coalition aimed at securing AI dominance.
SoftBank and Nvidia back the AI search startup at a 9 billion valuation, up 125% year-over-year, as Perplexity targets enterprise APIs and a 50 million push into Asian markets.
OpenAI’s retreat from a Norway data-center deal, and Microsoft’s takeover, highlights a new AI constraint: securing power, permits, capital, and political approval for hyperscale compute.
A lawsuit over Google’s Gemini chatbot and a man’s suicide turns abstract AI safety promises into a concrete test of product liability, guardrails and acceptable risk.
Google’s Agent2Agent protocol pushes AI beyond single-agent demos, defining how autonomous systems discover peers, delegate work and return results across vendor boundaries.
Meta's acquisition of Chinese-founded AI startup Manus for over $2 billion highlights the escalating battle for AI talent, as the startup relocated to Singapore before sealing its deal with the US tech giant.
OpenAI has discontinued Sora, its AI text-to-video generator, citing unsustainable economics and compute constraints. The company is pivoting the Sora team toward robotics research and world simulation as it prepares for a potential IPO.
OpenAI has flagged its dependence on Microsoft as a significant risk factor in investor documentation ahead of a potential IPO, highlighting the operational and competitive complexities of one of technology's most consequential partnerships.