Hanoi — Chinese companies have proposed cooperation with Vietnam on data centers, computing infrastructure, as well as AI applications and use cases.
By Alex Rowland Co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, has acquired the domain AI.com for $70 million in crypto assets and launched a consumer-focused AI platform.
By Alex Rowland lphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft plan to spend a combined $610 billion on data centers and AI infrastructure in 2026—about 70% more than in 2025, Bloomberg reports. Amazon is set to invest $200 billion, Microsoft $180 billion, Meta $125 billion, and Alphabet $105 billion. For each company, this exceeds the total of their budgets from the past three years combined.
By Alex Rowland Cerebras Systems, an AI chip startup, has closed a $1 billion funding round, valuing the company at approximately $23 billion, according to a press release. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Benchmark, Fidelity, AMD, Coatue, and other investors.
By Chris Borden The number of monthly active users (MAU) of Google’s Gemini chatbot has surpassed 750 million, according to the company’s Q4 2025 report.
By Chris Borden Apple has added support for AI agents based on Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex to its Xcode app development environment, the company announced on Wednesday.
By Chris Borden A new AI-based operating system from Google, Aluminium OS, which is set to unify Android and ChromeOS, is not expected to arrive before 2028. This was reported by The Verge, citing court documents from an ongoing antitrust case.
By Chris Borden There is now a platform where AI agents can hire humans. It looks like a joke—and probably is—but at its core it still addresses a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence.
By Chris Borden According to Reuters, the developer of ChatGPT is dissatisfied with the performance of certain Nvidia chips and has been in talks with startups offering alternatives.
By Alex Rowland A subsidiary of Bitcoin mining company Cipher Mining, Black Pearl, will carry out a private placement of $2 billion in senior notes maturing in 2031.
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