AI News Brief: Tether has been ramping up its AI push over the past few months, built around its in-house QVAC platform. Back in March, Tether launched a training framework that lets AI models train and run inference directly on consumer hardware, including smartphones and non-Nvidia chips, breaking away from the old reliance on high-end GPU servers. Two months later, its QVAC MedPsy medical AI model…
AI News Flash: OpenAI recently published a report exposing a foreign influence operation linked to the Chinese government (PRC) that is systematically using AI tools to intervene in US domestic public discourse. The report identifies several target areas: US tech policy debates, attempting to shape perceptions of the US-China tech competition; narratives around data center infrastructure, possibly aimed at influencing US views on AI compute investment and reg…
AI news brief: OpenAI and Oracle Cloud announced a partnership giving enterprise users direct access to OpenAI’s models and Codex code generation tool through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), no separate OpenAI account or extra procurement process needed.
AI News Flash: US AI startup Anthropic held its developer event ‘Code with Claude’ in Tokyo on June 10, 2026, drawing nearly 500 software engineers. The event centered on promoting Claude AI tools and related products, with a spotlight on autonomous code-writing capabilities, emphasizing how this kind of automation can significantly boost developer productivity.
AI news flash: Japanese electronics component giant TDK announced it will acquire US startup Fabric8Labs for up to $400 million, officially entering the fast-growing AI data center cooling market. Fabric8Labs’ core technology applies 3D printing to the manufacturing of cooling components, more efficiently dissipating the heat generated during GPU compute. Compared to traditional air or liquid cooling, 3D…
AI News Flash: The official GitHub blog introduces a way to boost Copilot CLI’s code understanding: installing and configuring an LSP (Language Server Protocol) server. The traditional approach relies on brute-force search (grep) or decompilation to understand code structure, which only does string matching and lacks real understanding of types, symbol definitions, and references. With LSP…
AI news flash: Meta announces partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to build a 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking Meta’s first AI infrastructure investment in India. The facility will run on renewable energy, cooled by desalinated seawater, with all energy and water costs fully covered by Meta. The data center is expected to be completed within two years and gradually scale capacity, serving not only the Indian market but also integrating into Meta’s global AI computing network.
AI News Flash: At the Nikkei Asia ‘Future of Asia 2026’ summit, Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour warned that the energy crisis triggered by a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz is spreading into broader economic areas, hitting industrial raw material supply, logistics, food prices, and tourism, and putting multi-front downward pressure on Asian economies. Beyond the Iran geopolitical risk, the forum also focused on the potential threat AI disinformation poses to regional stability…
AI news brief: The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is partnering with OpenAI to drive trusted AI adoption across its global operations. According to a customer story published by OpenAI, the core goal of this partnership is to make AI trusted and scalable across LSEG’s entire business, not just confined to specific departments or pilot projects. The partnership has delivered three standout results…
AI news flash: Google announced Monday it’s cutting Google AI Plus’s monthly price from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the plan’s cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with the update rolling out to existing subscribers over the coming days. Launched this January, Google AI Plus is positioned as the cheapest paid AI subscription plan in the US market, aimed mainly at…