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District Judge Sidney H. Stein upheld the magistrate order requiring OpenAI to produce 20 million anonymised ChatGPT logs — 0.5% of its preserved data — in the consolidated copyright suits.
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's first major output unifies matrix-math instructions across AMD and Intel CPUs — a quiet but consequential détente between two long-time rivals in the face of Arm and AI accelerators.
Even as cloud providers ramp internal silicon, Nvidia keeps shipping. Its newest models — a multimodal Nemotron and an Ising family for quantum computing — are aimed at developers Nvidia does not want to lose to competitors.
Meta has committed to deploy AMD's Instinct MI450 GPUs and 6th-gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs at six gigawatts of capacity over five years, days after expanding its Nvidia order. AMD is no longer the second choice.
Talks on the European Commission's Digital Omnibus reform of the AI Act broke down on 28-29 April over how AI embedded in medical devices, machinery, toys and connected cars should be regulated.
Three days after losing the Pentagon contract, Anthropic announced an enterprise AI services joint venture backed by some of the deepest pockets in private capital and Wall Street.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, SpaceX and Reflection AI are in. Anthropic is out, after refusing to let Claude be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Member states ended the resumed sixth IGWG session in Geneva on 1 May without agreeing the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex, deferring to a seventh meeting on 6-17 July and to the 2027 World Health Assembly.
NASA's four-astronaut Artemis II flight has completed its lunar fly-by and splashed down safely, the first crewed mission to leave low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta to unwind its takeover of Manus, an autonomous-AI startup with Chinese roots, calling the deal an attempt to "hollow out" China's tech base.
A rare twin birth in eastern DRC's Virunga National Park is a small piece of unequivocally good conservation news for a species whose population has crept back from the brink across the past three decades.
Mogadishu is moving toward its first offshore drilling operations after decades of delays, with seismic data pointing to a basin that could be one of Africa's most consequential new hydrocarbon discoveries.
Ethiopian Airlines began construction in January on a Zaha Hadid-designed mega-hub at Bishoftu, with phase one targeting 60 million passengers a year by 2030 and ultimate capacity of 110 million.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation deal — $500M from Washington, $37.5M co-financed by Maputo — funds coastal livelihoods, rural transport and agricultural reform.
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela placed the National Student Financial Aid Scheme under administration on 5 May, appointing veteran Hlengani Mathebula to stabilise an organisation that has paid millions of rand to the wrong recipients.
Moscow has reaffirmed its commitment to backing Mali's military rulers despite the loss of Kidal and the killing of Defence Minister Sadio Camara, in a confrontation that is reshaping the Sahel.
An in-person 27-30 April negotiating round closed three chapters of the Mercosur-Canada free-trade agreement, the most concrete progress on the file since talks resumed in 2024.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly pushed back on US charges against the governor of Sinaloa state and nine other officials, in the most pointed bilateral exchange of her term so far.
Lawmakers reversed the president's January veto on 30 April, cutting prison time for those convicted in connection with the 2023 attack on Brasília's federal buildings — a major political win for the Bolsonarist right.
Argentina's largest trade union confederation staged a high-profile protest outside the presidential palace on 30 April, the third major mobilisation against President Javier Milei's economic programme this year.
ASEAN+3 finance officials issued a joint readiness statement on 4 May, with currency-swap lines primed and intervention frameworks rehearsed as Hormuz-driven oil prices and US-China summit uncertainty rattle Asian markets.
Reliance-Disney's $20M offer for Indian rights was rejected as unacceptable; no deal is yet in place for China — leaving roughly 2.8 billion people potentially without legal access to the 2026 World Cup.
Japan is trying to lock in a Trump-Takaichi meeting before the US president's planned mid-May visit to Beijing, anxious that a Trump-Xi deal could quietly trade Japanese interests.
The Nobel laureate has been transferred from Naypyidaw Prison to an undisclosed residence as part of a Buddha Day amnesty, days before the ASEAN summit. Her family says they have no proof.