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Microsoft Launches Community-First AI Infrastructure Initiative to Limit Data Centre Costs

Microsoft unveiled its Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative, pledging to cover full electricity costs, reject local property tax breaks, and replenish more water than its data centres consume. The company has been developing the initiative since September 2025, responding to shifting public sentiment observed in Wisconsin, where concerns shifted to electricity

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Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Nvidia H200 AI Chips Bound for China

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation imposing a 25% tariff on advanced AI semiconductors produced outside the United States that pass through the country before being exported to other nations, formalising a key component of the U.S. Department of Commerce's December decision to permit Nvidia to ship

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AI to Replace 200,000 Roles in European Banking Industry

More than 200,000 European banking jobs could vanish by 2030 as lenders lean into AI and shutter physical branches, according to a Morgan Stanley analysis reported by the Financial Times. This represents approximately 10 per cent of the workforce across 35 major European banks. The banks in the analysis

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Harmattan AI Raises $200 Million Series B Led by Dassault Aviation, Becomes Defence Unicorn

Dassault Aviation, the French maker of military aircrafts and business jets, led a €200 million Series B funding round in autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI on 12 January 2026, valuing the Paris-based startup at €1.4 billion and establishing France's first defence unicorn. The strategic partnership aims to

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Nvidia Licenses AI Chip Challenger Groq's assets for $20 Billion

Nvidia has agreed to license assets from AI chip startup Groq for approximately $20 billion through a non-exclusive technology licence whilst simultaneously hiring the company's founders and executives, marking the chipmaker's largest transaction to date and dwarfing its previous record of $7 billion for Mellanox in

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UK and Germany Emerge as Leading Hubs for Billion-Dollar AI Defence Startups

The UK and Germany are emerging as key hubs for a new wave of AI defence startups, as Europe scrambles to rearm amid rising geopolitical tensions. Investors have funnelled a record $4.3 billion into the sector since the start of 2022, nearly four times the funds deployed in the

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Oracle's Earnings Miss Triggers Sharp Decline in AI Stocks Across Markets

Oracle shares closed down nearly 11% on 11th December 2025, after the company announced revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates, wiping nearly 70 billion dollars off the company's market value in a matter of hours. Its revenue came in at 16.06 billion dollars, compared with

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Leonardo Unveils Michelangelo Dome: AI-Powered System for European Defense

Italian defence company Leonardo unveiled on 27 November 2025 an AI-powered integrated defence system called Michelangelo Dome, designed to protect critical infrastructure and urban areas amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company targets full operational capability by the end of the decade. Leonardo's shares rose approximately 77% since January

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Trump Signs Executive Order Launching Genesis Mission AI Initiative

On 24 November 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use AI to transform scientific research and accelerate discovery, comparing the initiative in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project. The Department of Energy will lead the effort by leveraging

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DuckDuckGo's New Subscription Now Provides Access to Advanced AI Models

DuckDuckGo’s $9.99-per-month subscription now provides access to the most advanced AI models via its Duck.ai chatbot, including GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama Maverick. The free plan remains available, but only with older models such as GPT-4o mini or Claude 3.5 Haiku. The company stressed that

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OECD Questions the Applicability of "Open Source" Terminology in AI

The OECD's August 2025 analysis of AI openness reveals that traditional "open source" terminology does not fully capture the complexities specific to AI systems. The study published in August 2025 demonstrates that AI openness exists on a spectrum from fully closed systems with restricted access to

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Character.AI Abandons Artificial General Intelligence Development to Transform into an Entertainment Platform

Character.AI, once a billion-dollar startup promising to bring personalized superintelligence to everyone, has implemented a significant strategic shift. Karandeep Anand, appointed as the company's CEO in June 2025, announced that the firm has abandoned its founders' Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas' aspirations to develop

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Sam Altman Says Without AI Model Training Costs OpenAI Would Be Far More Profitable

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated at a press dinner in San Francisco on August 15, 2025, that the company would already be profitable from running AI models if they didn't have to pay for training new ones. Altman discussed in detail the period following GPT-5's

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South Korea Halts Ambitious AI Textbook Programme Amid Teachers’ and Parents’ Criticism

On August 5, 2025, the South Korean Ministry of Education announced the cancellation of its previously ambitious AI textbook programme, which had originally launched in 2023 with 300 billion won (approximately $230 million) in government funding. The programme, which was part of President Yoon Suk Yeol's K-Digital initiative,

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California Set to Become First US State to Manage Power Outages with AI

California will launch the nation's first artificial intelligence-based electrical grid management system on August 1, 2025, which is expected to reduce power outages by 47% and significantly improve renewable energy integration. The $289 million investment, approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), deploys an advanced AI system

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WOOHOO, the First AI-Operated Restaurant, to Open Soon in Dubai

WOOHOO, the first fully AI-operated restaurant, will open its doors on August 15, 2025, in Dubai, marking a significant milestone in hospitality automation and practical applications of AI technology. The restaurant is being jointly developed by the Dubai Future Foundation and Emirates Hospitality Group, and will be located in the

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Five-Year State AI Moratorium Defeated in the U.S.Senate

The United States Senate voted 99-1 to strike down the proposed state AI regulation moratorium after 4 a.m. on July 1, 2025, which had originally been included in President Trump's tax cut legislation. The proposal initially sought a 10-year ban on state AI laws, later reduced to

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India has launched an ambitious strategy to achieve technological independence in artificial intelligence

India has launched an ambitious strategy to achieve technological independence in artificial intelligence, focusing on domestically developed AI models and infrastructure. The Indian government announced the Bhashini Digital India AI Mission programme on June 15, 2025, which allocates $12 billion (1 trillion rupees) investment over the next five years in

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Parasail Unveils AI Platform with Massive GPU Access

AI infrastructure startup Parasail officially launched its AI Deployment Network platform on 2 April 2025, offering real-time, on-demand access to GPU resources, including Nvidia's H100, H200, A100, and 4090 GPUs, at significantly lower costs than traditional cloud providers. The company's proprietary orchestration engine automatically matches workloads