Ai-Tech

Intel shares drop on Tesla share as TSMC eyes Terafab venture, with investors assessing the deal’s potential impact on Intel foundry business.

Europe’s Mistral and US-based xAI are rapidly gaining ground in enterprise AI, siphoning major accounts from OpenAI and Anthropic and accelerating procurement diversification.

Latest benchmarks from multiple analysis firms show the capability gap between new DeepSeek models and top U.S. AI models has narrowed to within 3%, reshaping the AI race.

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced the creation of a federal AI coordination body named the “Super Intelligence Force,” naming former SEC Chair Jay Clayton to lead the effort. Multi-source reporting notes the working group’s specific scope remains undisclosed, prompting industry questions about its coordination power and legislative implementation.

A report released by the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation has found that confirmed and removed AI-generated child sexual abuse material increased more than four-fold year-on-year over the past 12 months. The report notes that the spread of generative AI tools has dramatically lowered the barrier to producing such material, and calls on national legislatures to bring AI-generated CSAM under dedicated legal frameworks.

Fox Business reports that Elon Musk has rebranded his artificial intelligence business as SpaceXAI, a move made against the backdrop of Trump administration policy guidance and a global wave of space-and-AI convergence. The rebranding marks a new phase in the integration of Musk’s space and AI businesses and will have a profound impact on the US space industry, the AI competitive landscape and the model of public-private cooperation in critical technologies. The rebranding is widely seen as a further consolidation by Musk across two strategic industries and will give the combined entity a clearer position in financing, partnerships and regulatory engagement.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told Politico’s Decoded program that the world should accept some negative consequences in exchange for the benefits of artificial intelligence. The comments come amid intense global debate over AI safety, copyright, labor disruption and regulatory pathways, and have quickly reignited discussion across the tech industry, regulators and public opinion about the boundaries of risk tolerance. They also underscore the persistent gap between Altman’s framing of AI governance and that of governments around the world.

IBM has announced an expanded AI and quantum research partnership with IIT Bombay and IISc, covering joint research projects, talent development and shared compute resources. The partnership is widely viewed as a key move by IBM to build an AI-and-quantum research ecosystem across Asia and is symbolically significant for India as it seeks to enter the global frontier-tech competitive landscape.

OpenAI’s latest model ChatGPT-6 Astra has cleared the World of Warcraft Classic orc starting zone ‘blind’ using only in-game text instructions within 40 minutes and without a single death. The agent did not rely on screenshot overlay or pre-set APIs but instead parsed the game’s raw text stream directly, marking an important milestone for AI agents in complex virtual environments and providing a new benchmark for game AI, reinforcement learning and human-computer interaction research.

According to The New York Sun, Pope Leo has launched a high-profile campaign against the flood of low-quality AI-generated content, calling to ‘disarm’ artificial intelligence. The pontiff described the current generative-AI-driven content ecosystem as ‘pollution of the human spirit’ and signaled that the Vatican will keep pushing AI-ethics and content-quality debates in the years ahead. The address is widely viewed as a milestone in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and modern technology and adds a fresh framework for global AI-ethics and content-governance discussions.