Amazon Web Services experienced major outages in the Middle East after drone strikes damaged data center infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting cloud services and business operations across the region.
Meta is reportedly preparing to invest up to $100 billion in AI infrastructure through a growing partnership with AMD. The move highlights a major shift in the tech industry as the AI race increasingly centers on compute power, chips, and data center scale.
In a move that’s reigniting debate across the AI community, OpenAI has once again postponed the release of a rumored “adult mode” for ChatGPT, pushing the timeline further as the company continues to wrestle with safety policies, moderation systems, and regulatory concerns.
Alibaba’s Qwen models were supposed to be China’s answer to the West’s AI dominance. But sudden departures from the team behind the project are raising new questions about talent, stability, and the future of China’s AI race.
For years, Nvidia has been the silent power behind the world’s most famous AI models. But now the company is quietly stepping back from deeper financial ties with the creators of ChatGPT and Claude — a move that could reshape the balance of power in the AI industry.
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Amazon Web Services suffers outages in UAE and Bahrain after data centre struck amid the Israel-Iran war. Latest developments on regional cloud disruption, financial systems, and global tech impact.
For decades, computers have been tools we operate.
Perplexity’s new “Computer” flips that model — it works for you. And if it succeeds, this could be the first serious attempt to build a true AI-native operating layer for work.
For the first time in modern tech history, an AI company is pushing back against direct pressure from U.S. defence and intelligence agencies.
At the centre of it: Anthropic — and a standoff that could define how AI will be used in national security for the next decade.
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