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The AI Infrastructure Coalition, comprising members including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, has announced commitments to pay for data centre energy costs and minimise water consumption. The move is designed to mitigate mounting political and community backlash over resource demands ahead of US midterm elections.
The Financial Times reports that the US president dismissed mandatory AI regulation, stating that technology leaders have agreed to self-regulate AI risks. The development indicates a policy stance favouring voluntary industry commitments over direct federal oversight.
Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Bedrock availability in India by adding Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 through geographic cross-Region inference. The service allows users to process data within AWS India Regions using the Bedrock console or the Messages, InvokeModel, and Converse APIs.
Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire two-year-old AI startup World Labs in an $8.2 billion all-stock transaction, according to The Information. The deal reflects a broader surge in major AI acquisitions, alongside reported transactions including SpaceX buying Cursor, Nvidia buying Hugging Face, and Stripe acquiring OpenRouter. Andreessen Horowitz held an approximate 14% stake as World Labs' largest shareholder.
OpenAI announced the release of GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay event, positioning the model as a lower-cost alternative delivering performance close to GPT-6.1 Astra. The release comes after OpenAI stated it withheld GPT-6.1 Astra due to safety concerns. Specific technical benchmarks and exact pricing tiers were not detailed in the report.
The Information reports that President Donald Trump announced the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence" via Truth Social. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
Google is running a pilot program paying approximately 100 digital publishers based on how much their material contributes to AI Overviews and other AI-driven search features, according to reporting by The Information. The initiative marks a strategic shift from Google's traditional model of compensating web publishers purely through search referral traffic.
SiliconANGLE reports that OpenAI unveiled Dots at its DevDay developer conference. The release introduces always-on AI agents within ChatGPT backed by dedicated cloud computers, designed to execute user goals continuously without requiring step-by-step prompting.
Equals Money is restricting customer AI tools connected via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to read-only data access, preventing autonomous agents from initiating payment transactions. The guardrail addresses security risks where rogue AI agents could execute unauthorized money transfers rather than just causing data leaks.
