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I’m Precious Amusat, Phronews’ Content Writer. I conduct in-depth research and write on the latest developments in the tech industry, including trends in big tech, startups, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and their global impacts. When I’m off the clock, you’ll find me cheering on women’s footy, curled up with a romance novel, or binge-watching crime thrillers.
The next wave in personal computing is closer than many realize. Google is preparing to redefine the personal computing landscape with plans to merge Android and ChromeOS into a unified platform specifically for desktop computing, with the new Android-powered PC platform set to launch in 2026. Announced during Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2025, Google said they plan to unify their mobile and PC platforms by merging Android and Chrome OS into a single underlying operating system foundation for PCs and mobile devices. “We are building together a common technical foundation for our products on PCs and desktop computing systems,” Rick Osterloh,…
In an effort to play catch-up in the GenAI arms race, Google has launched Mixboard, a fresh AI-powered tool that transforms how ideas are visually brainstormed and developed. Developed by Google Labs, Mixboard combines generative AI with an open, interactive canvas to give users a seamless way to generate, organize, and refine visual concepts. Google aims to use this new approach to moodboarding to speed up creativity by blending image generation, natural language editing, and contextual text creation into a single workspace. Following its launch, Google’s Mixboard surpassed ChatGPT to reach the top spot in the U.S. App Store, driven…
Nscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure company backed by Nvidia, recently raised $1.1 billion in a Series B funding round led by the Norwegian investment firm Aker ASA. Marking the largest Series B funding round ever recorded in Europe, it will be used to rapidly expand Nscale’s AI data centers across Europe, including major projects in the UK and Norway. Nscale, the famous hyperscaler engineered for AI, specializes in building data centers optimized for AI workload using Nvidia GPUs and Kubernetes, providing secure, energy-efficient infrastructure to Big Techs like OpenAI and Microsoft. This massive infusion of capital is set to accelerate…
Meta has made another high-profile move in the fierce battle for AI talent by recruiting Yang Song, a prominent AI researcher formerly leading OpenAI’s strategic explorations team, to lead its Superintelligence Lab. Song, widely known for pioneering diffusion model research that was used in building state-of-the-art generative AI like DALL-E 2, joined Meta as research principal earlier this month. Reporting to Meta Superintelligence Labs’ chief scientist Shengjia Zhao, himself an OpenAI alumnus, Song’s arrival marks a strategic boost for Meta’s ambition to further develop artificial general intelligence (AGI). Song’s expertise in multimodal AI systems, which is the foundation of advanced…
Tokio Marine Holdings (TMHD), a major Japanese financial and insurance services group, has partnered with AI pioneer OpenAI to deploy advanced AI-powered agents and services across its business operations. This collaboration aims to transform Tokio Marine’s customer service, product development, and sales team by leveraging OpenAI’s latest generative AI technologies, including capabilities from the latest GPT-5. Through this strategic partnership, Tokio Marine plans to integrate AI agents that can autonomously conduct in-depth research, analyse company data, and engage customers more efficiently. The Japanese company also aims to automate routine inquiries and enable sales teams to develop tailored proposals by harnessing…
SAP SE and OpenAI have joined forces to bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to Germany’s public sector with the launch of “OpenAI for Germany,” a sovereign AI initiative set to roll out in 2026. This collaboration will blend SAP’s expertise in enterprise applications and business AI with OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI technology, which will then be supported by SAP’s subsidiary, Delos Cloud, which runs on the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure. The Delos Cloud platform will be expanded to host up to 4,000 GPUs dedicated to AI workloads, which guarantees performance and compliance tailored to the public sector’s needs. More importantly, the OpenAI…
OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank have jointly unveiled plans to boost the United States’ artificial intelligence infrastructure by opening five new data centers under the ambitious Stargate project. This brings the project’s total capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts and over $400 billion in committed investment. The Stargate expansion also puts the companies ahead of schedule to meet their original 10-gigawatt, $500 billion commitment by the end of 2025, far ahead of the initial schedule that was announced in January this year. The five newly announced data center sites span four states including Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and a yet-to-be-disclosed location in…
Chinese tech giant Alibaba recently saw its shares leap almost 8%, reaching a peak not seen in nearly four years. This jump came as the company announced an ambitious increase in its artificial intelligence (AI) spending, alongside an aggressive global expansion of its data center infrastructure. The move resulted in more investor confidence, which also spotlights Alibaba’s gamble on AI as a core growth driver beyond its well-established e-commerce empire. The announcement came during Alibaba’s annual Apsara Conference 2025, where CEO Eddie Wu shared plans to boost AI investments well beyond the previously announced and staggering $53 billion committed to…
Nvidia is committing as much as $100 billion to OpenAI in a bold partnership that aims to change the AI landscape through an unrivalled AI infrastructure scale-up. This investment will fuel the deployment of at least 10 gigawatts of AI computing power, making it arguably the biggest AI infrastructure project in history. More importantly, for OpenAI, the investment translates into easy access to cutting-edge GPUs needed to maintain its rapid growth and competitive edge in the ferocious and escalating AI arms race. “Nvidia and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough…
Microsoft is reportedly shifting its AI model preference for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from OpenAI’s GPT-5 to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, favoring Anthropic over its long-term partner OpenAI. This shift, in addition to the tech giant’s recent integration of Anthropic Claude models into its Office 365 apps, signals a difference in Microsoft’s AI strategy, especially driven by the evolving dynamics of partnerships in the current AI ecosystem. With OpenAI, Microsoft’s partnership with the AI giant has been one of the most notable collaborations in the tech industry. Since 2019 when the partnership started, Microsoft has invested over $13 billion…