Japanese materials firm Resonac opened the U.S.'s first advanced semiconductor packaging R&D center in Union City, joining a US‑JOINT consortium to speed AI chip development.

Meta will install software to log employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI agents, prompting fresh privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny.

Sunnyvale‑based Cerebras filed an S‑1 showing big 2025 growth, a major OpenAI compute partnership and new data‑center expansion as it aims to list as CBRS.

Meta is testing a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg at its Menlo Park campus that could speak for the CEO — and some employees are uneasy.

Three San Jose drivers sued the city over nearly 500 Flock plate‑reading cameras, asking judges to narrow searches and speed deletion of stored images.

Portuguese app store Aptoide sued Google in San Francisco federal court, accusing the Play Store of choking off rivals and seeking injunctions plus unspecified triple damages. The filing follows a string of antitrust rulings that have already forced changes to Android distribution.

Oracle will buy up to 2.8 GW of Bloom Energy fuel-cell power for its AI data centers; 1.2 GW is already under contract and deployment is underway.

Khan Academy, TED and ETS are teaming up on a competency-based B.S. in applied AI with big-tech partners and a targeted price near $10K; applications are expected in 12–18 months.

Advertisers and some publishers have begun mass arbitration against Google, seeking billions after antitrust rulings that found parts of its ad tech unlawful.

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk has agreed to buy Liberty Bank and plans to use the lender as a testing ground for AI‑driven financial tools, pending regulator approval.

Three former OpenAI Stargate leaders are joining Meta as the company rolls out Muse Spark and hikes infrastructure spending.

Anthropic will run parts of Claude on CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑powered cloud as it scales. The multiyear tie‑up gives Anthropic capacity while it builds $50B in U.S. data centers.

Palo Alto's Genspark extended its Series B and claims a roughly $1.6B valuation after explosive demand for agent‑style AI and rapid ARR growth.