Japan's Digital Transformation Minister announces sweeping privacy law changes to attract AI developers and make Japan the most permissive AI development environment globally.

Microsoft's Bing team releases Harrier, an open-source multilingual embedding model supporting 100+ languages with a 32,000-token context window.

Z.AI releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter open source model designed for long-horizon agentic tasks, running autonomously for up to 8 hours and outperforming Claude Opus 4 on benchmarks.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts record electricity consumption in 2026 and 2027, driven by surging AI and data center power needs.

Nvidia-backed Firmus Technologies raises $505 million in a Coatue-led round, valuing the Australian AI data center builder at $5.5 billion.

Uber expands its AWS contract to leverage Amazon's custom chips for ride-sharing features and AI model training, bypassing Oracle and Google.

Musk filed a legal motion to remove OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman as officers, escalating his ongoing lawsuit over OpenAI's for-profit transition.

Anthropic hired Microsoft AI Platform president Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure, signaling aggressive cloud capacity expansion amid surging AI demand.

Anthropic bulks up its compute agreement with Google and Broadcom, securing 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity starting 2027 as revenue surges past $30 billion.

Intel signs on to Musk's Terafab initiative to build a U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, powering humanoid robots and AI data centers.

Anthropic launches Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model for defensive cybersecurity, restricted due to hacking risks, with partners including Nvidia, Google, and AWS.