Elon Musk's SpaceX has been named the lead bidder for Trump's satellite missile tracking system, sparking conflict of interest concerns from lawmakers.

Growing unrest over alleged complicity in the Gaza conflict has led to firings at Microsoft, as employees protest the use of Azure AI by the Israeli military.

DeepSeek AI has kicked off an open-source initiative by releasing FlashMLA, an efficient MLA decoding kernel optimized for NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and variable-length sequences.

Facing high AI expenses, Meta has reportedly sought funding from competitors for its Llama models, offering influence on features in return.

Google has launched its Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model into public preview, featuring hybrid reasoning controls for developers via API and availability in the Gemini app.

Popular AI ranking site Chatbot Arena has formed Arena Intelligence Inc., operating as LMArena, to fund expansion and platform upgrades while maintaining neutrality.

Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan has flattened the company's structure and appointed Sachin Katti as CTO/AI chief to drive innovation.

OpenAI has launched Flex processing, a new beta API tier offering 50% cheaper access to o3 & o4-mini models for non-urgent tasks with speed trade-offs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly spoken with Commerce Sec. Lutnick about the impact new U.S. tariffs may have on iPhone prices, following policy confusion.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's CEO C.C. Wei has refuted reports of joint venture talks with Intel during the company's Q1 2025 earnings call.

Instagram's new Blend feature has launched, creating invite-only, custom Reels feeds based on the combined interests of friends in a DM chat.

Apple says that the vulnerabilities may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.

A federal judge has found Google liable for illegally monopolizing the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets through anticompetitive tying and other tactics.

OpenAI and SoftBank's $500B Stargate AI data center venture is reportedly exploring the UK, Germany, and France for future investment.

BitNet b1.58 2B4T from Microsoft Research aims for efficient AI use on CPUs with a native 1.58-bit architecture and custom frameworks.

To combat server strain from AI bots, Wikimedia Enterprise has made a structured Wikipedia dataset available via Google's Kaggle platform.

Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, featuring agentic capabilities and vision, into Azure OpenAI Service and GitHub Copilot.

Meta has blocked Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Genmoji from working in its iOS apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.