Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports
Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports

Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir …

DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA
DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA

DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesd…

AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority
AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to …

Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits
Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. A…

OpenAI says actors linked to China-based Moonshot AI spearheaded a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning

OpenAI says operators copied its models’ encrypted reasoning and asked a model in a separate conversation to decrypt it.

Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar
Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar

President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for…

OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn
OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn

OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and The Information reported the talks on Tuesday. The round would give the ChatGPT maker fresh capital after it pushed back its stock mar…

US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China
US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China

US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China or other hostile actors to steal their model weights. The letters went to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and …

Zuckerberg drafted Trump’s AI accord, but Microsoft and Amazon didn’t sign
Zuckerberg drafted Trump’s AI accord, but Microsoft and Amazon didn’t sign

Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White Hou…

Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test ’80x cheaper’ DeepSeek claim

A call center consultancy rented four Nvidia H200s to run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for Claude Code and found DeepSeek’s API cheaper.