Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson …

AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock
AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock

AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD exp…

Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic
Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic

Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic…

SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips
SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Comp…

Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports
Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports

Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software com…

Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the High…

Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback
Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback

Nvidia’s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share r…

Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform,” Zuc…

Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days
Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Bot…

Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him
Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported …