Artificial Intelligence Industry News

Canadian Officials Express "Disappointment" After OpenAI Meeting Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting as Company Offers No New Safety Protocols

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Summoned to Pentagon for "Tense" Meeting Tuesday as Claude Faces Replacement Threat and Friday Deadline Looms

Defense Secretary Hegseth to present ultimatum demanding Anthropic lift all safeguards on Claude for "all lawful purposes" or face supply chain risk designation

Nvidia Confirms N1/N1X Arm-Based Laptop Chips Launching H1 2026 with Dell and Lenovo as First Major OEMs Targeting Apple MacBook Competition

Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia-MediaTek partnership will debut consumer SoCs featuring up to 20 CPU cores and RTX 5070-level integrated GPU challenging Intel and AMD laptop dominance

Pentagon Signs Deal with xAI to Deploy Grok in Classified Military Systems as Anthropic Faces "Supply Chain Risk" Ultimatum Over AI Safety Guardrails

Defense Department finalizes agreement allowing Musk's Grok into sensitive intelligence and weapons development while threatening to blacklist Anthropic if it refuses to remove safeguards

AI Business Weekly – February 25, 2026: AI Model Theft Allegations Escalate as Big Tech's $650 Billion Infrastructure Bet Triggers Market Anxiety

Five stories revealing how Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of industrial-scale distillation while Meta commits $100 billion to AMD and speculative AI disruption scenarios spook Wall Street

Citrini Research "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" Report Triggers Wall Street Selloff as IBM Drops 13% on AI Disruption Fears and Speculative Scenario Goes Viral

Hypothetical thought experiment projecting 10.2% unemployment and 38% S&P 500 drawdown by June 2028 from AI displacement spooked markets Monday despite being labeled fiction

Bridgewater Warns Big Tech's $650 Billion AI Infrastructure Spending in 2026 Enters "More Dangerous Phase" as Compute Demand Outpaces Supply

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft projected to invest $650B in AI this year up from $410B in 2025 as co-CIO Greg Jensen cautions downside risks exceed Dot-com bubble concerns

US Officials Confirm DeepSeek Trained Latest AI Model on Banned Nvidia Blackwell Chips at Inner Mongolia Data Center Despite Export Controls

Trump administration official reports upcoming DeepSeek model launching next week used restricted processors potentially violating export restrictions as enforcement debate intensifies

Meta Strikes Up to $100 Billion AMD Deal for 6 Gigawatts of AI Chips with 160 Million Share Warrant Making Meta Major Shareholder

Five-year agreement includes MI540 GPUs and latest CPUs with performance-based warrant vesting at milestones as Meta diversifies beyond Nvidia for AI infrastructure