Meta, BlackRock partner on $14 billion AI data centre venture
Meta has announced a strategic venture with BlackRock to develop a 1-gigawatt artificial intelligence data centre in El Paso, Texas, marking one of the company’s largest infrastructure bets as it races to build computing capacity for advanced AI models. The project will be developed through a newly created joint venture in which investment funds managed
AI can write code faster
AI can shrink days of work into minutes and generate code at remarkable speed. But as enterprises hand more work to AI agents, the harder challenge is securing, validating, and tracking everything those agents do.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how quickly enterprises can build software, investigate incidents, and automate work. But every gain in speed
Musk criticizes Australia’s social media crackdown
Elon Musk’s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining US law with plans for tougher enforcement of a teen social media ban. Australia’s world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the US.The billionaire Musk himself
WhatsApp rolls out web calling and new call features
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a set of new calling features aimed at making it easier for users to connect across devices. The update brings full calling functionality to WhatsApp Web for the first time, alongside other tools designed to improve the calling experience.WhatsApp said all the new features are rolling out gradually and will
OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm
The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company.Modal executives emphasised that the company itself was not hacked. The rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, “hosted on a third-party provider’s
SpaceX is deepening ties with Pentagon
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in discussions with the US Defense Department to offer billions of dollars’ worth of data-centre capacity for running advanced artificial-intelligence models,If finalised, the agreement would lead to significant expansion of SpaceX’s role inside America’s national-security infrastructure, where the Pentagon already relies on the company for rocket launches, satellite communications and missile-tracking
Anthropic unveils more cost-efficient model for everyday tasks
Anthropic PBC is rolling out a new artificial intelligence model that is meant to handle workplace tasks adeptly and affordably, a key selling point as some customers grow more cost conscious and competition increases in China.The company on Friday unveiled Claude Opus 5, a model it says approaches the capabilities of its most advanced widely
SpaceX launches Starship on another test flight
Towering 407 feet (124 metres), Starship soared from the company’s base at the southern tip of Texas. NASA monitored the flight, a critical step toward using the Starship as a lunar lander for moon crews.Elon Musk’s SpaceX replaced six of the 33 engines on the first-stage booster after they failed to ignite last week, resulting
Open AI agent cyberattack
OpenAI is facing questions over the safety of its AI systems after one of its AI agents escaped testing restrictions and carried out a cyberattack on open-source AI platform Hugging Face. The company disclosed earlier this week that the agent had gone rogue and was behind the hack. A new report by Reuters has now
Samsung Electronics wins $200 billion Broadcom AI chip partnership
Samsung Electronics said on Saturday it struck a pact with U.S. chip designer Broadcom to widen cooperation across memory chips, contract chip making and advanced packaging envisaged to exceed $200 billion until 2030. Winning long-term production commitments from Broadcom, one of the world’s leading custom AI chip designers, could boost utilisation at Samsung’s advanced manufacturing