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• Data centre operator AirTrunk to invest $30 bn in India

  With more than a billion internet users, India has seen a surge of investment as generative AI players seek inroads to the world's most populous country.

  

• Trade groups warn US government of strain in chip supply on AI boom

  It could threaten higher consumer costs and supply chain disruptions, they added, in a letter addressed to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

  

• Tim Berners-Lee calls for AI to preserve 'original values' of web

  The British physicist-turned-computer scientist conceived the web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European particle physics lab in Switzerland.

  

• Intel's Alex Katouzian says competition from Nvidia PC chip a 'good thing'

  The comments come a day after Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, unveiled a powerful chip for Windows machines designed to run AI agents, tools that can carry out tasks for users.

  

• Pay workers 'as much as possible', Nvidia's Huang says

  The AI boom has driven Nvidia's stock price up more than 1,170% over the past five years, making many employees holding stock options millionaires practically overnight.

  

• Google parent Alphabet to raise $80 bn to fuel AI expansion

  Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta are collectively on track to pour roughly $700 billion into AI data centers, chips and computing infrastructure this year as each scrambles to keep pace with soaring demand for AI services.

  

• Nvidia launches Windows laptop chip in consumer PC push

  It also represents an attempt by Nvidia -- which the AI boom has made the world's most valuable company -- to diversify into the consumer market, even as it reaps record profits from massive demand for its data centre processors from global tech giants.

  

• UN says protecting children online an 'urgent priority'

  "Online harms to kids' safety, privacy and wellbeing are not innate or inevitable; they result from design choices and business practices that undermine safety, including addictive design features, such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and persistent notifications from apps.

  

• IBM says to boost open-source security with $5 bn project

  A subscription service, Lightwell would use "advanced AI capabilities to validate and test fixes across an unprecedented volume of open source code," IBM said.

  

• 'Immense' leverage: why AI chip workers are demanding more

  "An unprecedented wave of insatiable demand" for advanced memory chips has made SK hynix and its peers "an indispensable backbone of the global AI infrastructure build-out", William Keating, head of semiconductor research firm Ingenuity, told AFP.

  

• Google unveils smart glasses, taking on Meta

  The Google's so-called "audio glasses" will be equipped with a microphone, camera and small speaker, and will allow users to make calls, listen to music, take photos and chat with the Gemini AI assistant.