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Micron and Anthropic have signed a multi-year agreement covering AI memory and storage supply, Claude adoption inside Micron, and a Micron investment in Anthropic.

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has warned that frontier AI capable of supercharging cyberattacks is months, not years, from public release.

IBM has joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and launched an AI application-security service that hunts software vulnerabilities faster.

California drivers have sued BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven and three other chains, alleging an AI pricing tool was used to coordinate higher petrol prices.

AI startup Baseten raised $1.5bn at a valuation of up to $13bn, led by Sands Capital and Wellington, with Blackbird VC making its largest-ever investment.

Meta has paused its Model Capability Initiative, which tracks employee mouse movements and keystrokes for AI training, after sensitive data was left exposed.

Trump signed two executive orders on quantum computing, targeting a research-grade machine by 2028 and $2bn in grants across nine firms for government equity.

Oracle ended fiscal 2026 with roughly 21,000 fewer staff, about 13% of its workforce, as it funnels cash into an AI data-centre buildout.

Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to verify legitimate web traffic without tracking users.

Amazon is inviting Indian users to beta-test a Hindi version of Alexa+, its generative AI assistant, as it expands beyond English-speaking markets.