a16z led a $33 million seed round in Ornn, a compute marketplace startup building a venue to trade the power and processing capacity that drives AI workloads.

SoftBank Group is pursuing an investment in Tokyo Electric Power to secure electricity supply needed to scale its artificial intelligence infrastructure ambitions.

Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU built for agentic AI workloads, with Meta confirmed as its first Big Tech customer starting production in 2028.

Wired reports on meetings with China's leading AI researchers, revealing mutual anxiety over the US-China AI arms race and the risks of unchecked AI development.

Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 says it has built tools capable of matching Anthropic's Mythos AI, a system designed to detect software vulnerabilities.

Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models at scale.

OpenAI and Broadcom debut Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI accelerator chip, purpose-built for inference workloads and developed using OpenAI's own models.