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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: 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…

AI News Flash: Apple kicked off WWDC 2026 at its Cupertino campus under two unusual circumstances — CEO Tim Cook announced he’ll hand the reins to hardware engineering SVP John Ternus on September 1, making this his last WWDC, and expectations were sky-high for Apple to finally catch up on AI after two rough years for Siri and core software…

AI News Flash: Microsoft recently announced a major overhaul of GitHub Copilot’s pricing model, shifting from a fixed monthly subscription to pay-per-token usage — a move that’s sparked widespread discussion in tech circles, with Reddit users even dubbing it the ‘Tokenpocalypse.’ TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast points out that this shift…

AI news brief: OpenAI plans to launch a major ChatGPT overhaul in the coming weeks, repositioning it from a pure conversational tool into a ‘super app’ that integrates coding tools and AI agent features. According to the Financial Times, the move aims to boost commercial competitiveness and narrow the path to profitability ahead of an IPO, especially in the enterprise market, putting it in direct competition with Anthropic.

AI News Flash: This weekend, Notion’s integration with Anthropic experienced a brief outage. Sunday morning, Notion officially noted that Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models suffered performance degradation, leading to higher request failure rates for Notion AI users who had selected these models.

AI news brief: OpenAI has officially rolled out ‘Lockdown Mode,’ a feature designed specifically to defend against prompt injection attacks and reduce the risk of sensitive data leaking during interactions with ChatGPT. Prompt injection is an attack technique where malicious content gets planted in model input to trick the AI into leaking private information or executing unintended commands…

AI News Brief: US President Trump recently stated publicly that he’s actively discussing a series of partnership deals with relevant parties, with the core goal of ensuring the American people directly benefit from the commercial success of the AI industry. Trump used the word ‘deals’ to describe these ongoing negotiations, language with a distinctly commercial-negotiation flavor that differs from past administrations’ tendency toward regulation or subsidies in AI policy, suggesting the current administration intends to take a more proactive stance in shaping the AI industry landscape…

AI news brief: Former White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from his role as AI policy advisor at the White House, and is reportedly launching a new organization to keep shaping the Trump administration’s AI strategy at the policy level. Krishnan previously served as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz before joining the White House in early 2025 as a tech policy and AI…

AI news brief: The AI industry is having a collective wake-up call on costs. According to TechCrunch, the industry mood has shifted fast from chasing ’tokenmaxxing’ and rapid scaling to asking ‘we need guardrails, how do we get this under control?’ Tokenmaxxing means squeezing as many tokens as possible out of every request, stretching context windows, and piling on prompts to…