This Week’s News

  1. OpenAI will report massive losses through 2028. [Link]

  2. A 150 million USD fight looms over federal oversight into AI regulation. [Link]

  3. Meta kicks ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot out of its WhatsApp application. [Link]

  4. The Trump administration signs “Operation Genesis” order to boost federal efforts to support AI technology. [Link]

  5. Google launches “Project Suncatcher” to capture solar energy from satellites in order to power its AI data centers. [Link]

  6. OpenAI locks down offices after a violent threat from a StopAI activist. [Link]

  7. The U.S. patent office is issuing new guidelines for AI Assisted inventions. [Link]

  8. Micron will invest 9.6 billion USD to create an AI memory chip plant in Japan. [Link]

  9. Qualcomm has announced new chips for release in 2026 and 2027 to compete with NVidia and AMD. [Link]

  10. German insurance company Allianz is set to axe 1,800 jobs as AI increasingly takes over manual tasks. [Link]

  11. Anthropic releases its latest frontier model Opus 4.5. [Link]

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