China mandates all state-funded data centres to use domestic AI chips, escalating its tech rivalry with the US. China Tightens Rules on Data Centres, Mandates Use of Domestic AI Chips. The Chinese government has introduced new regulations requiring all data centre projects that receive state funding to use only domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) chips,…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has launched legal action against a former employee accused of stealing sensitive information about its Grok chatbot and passing it to rival OpenAI. Details of the lawsuit The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a California federal court, claims that engineerXuechen Li misappropriated confidential data on “cutting-edge AI technologies with…
In a statement that has reignited tensions in the AI industry, Elon Musk claimed that OpenAI is poised to “eat Microsoft alive,” just as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced full integration of GPT-5 across Microsoft’s ecosystem. The comment came shortly after OpenAI unveiled its most advanced model yet, GPT-5, which Nadella hailed as a breakthrough…