Data analytics firm Palantir is reportedly assisting the IRS in large-scale data mining to investigate financial crimes, with contracts worth approximately $130 million since 2018.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek releases a preview of its highly anticipated V4 model, with Huawei pledging full support from next-generation chips, marking another milestone in China’s open-source AI expansion.
Oracle announced a massive layoff plan affecting up to 30,000 employees globally, marking another tech giant cutting jobs to fund its AI investments, following similar moves by Meta and Microsoft.
The White House released a memo accusing Chinese companies of systematically stealing US AI technology through model distillation and other techniques, and announced measures to combat such activities. China called the allegations ‘slander.’
As AI data centers continue to scale, traditional electrical interconnects are reaching physical limits, driving an accelerated shift to all-optical networking and a surge in optical module demand.
A 78-year-old woman from Washington state used hologram and digital human technology to create a memorial presence of her late husband, sparking debate about the ethics of ‘grief tech.’
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed L.D. 307, which would have paused new data center construction permits until November 2027, marking the first statewide moratorium of its kind in the US.
Anthropic ran an internal experiment called Project Deal where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers in a classified marketplace, completing 186 deals worth over $4,000.
Nuclear startup X-Energy goes public with geothermal company Fervo Energy following soon after, signaling a potential turning point for the climate tech sector.
Meta announced it will lay off approximately 10% of its workforce, affecting over 20,000 employees as the company pivots aggressively toward AI, marking a new phase in the tech industry’s AI-driven labor restructuring.