The Shanghai R&D Day revealed an AI-directed pipeline that designs, optimises and scales lipid nanoparticles in weeks, aiming to speed next-generation vaccines and rare-disease therapies while slashing wet-lab costs.

Ten-year agreement secures 4.5 GW of capacity for the Stargate project, escalating cloud-infrastructure competition and cementing Oracle’s role as a hyperscale AI landlord.

Commission delays GPAI compliance guidance by six months, intensifying industry pressure for clarity on landmark AI-Act obligations and timelines.

New DI PaaS module uses AI agents to map supplier risks, run strategic pricing simulations and suggest logistics fixes, shrinking weeks-long global profit analyses into interactive on-screen scenarios completed in days.

Commentary argues rebranding the U.S. AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation tilts federal priorities from long-term risk mitigation toward accelerationist, industry-led standard-setting and risks marginalising civil-society oversight.

Kairos Fellowship report alleges Google’s greenhouse-gas emissions rose 1 515 % since 2010 despite 100 % renewable claims, accusing the company of masking AI-driven energy growth through market-based accounting and renewable-credit offsets.

Analysis warns axing U.S. clean-energy subsidies could slow data-centre build-outs, push AI infrastructure abroad and hand China an edge, arguing reliable low-carbon power is crucial for domestic AI competitiveness.

The consulting giant’s new framework bundles agentic design patterns, value-tracking KPIs and “human-AI chemistry” change-management playbooks to speed industrial-scale deployments across finance, retail and telecoms.

LazPad turns prompt snippets into deployable DAT-based agents via a gamified interface, aiming to lower the barrier for SMEs to embed custom AI assistants in e-commerce and media apps.

A 99-1 vote stripped the decade-long freeze on state AI laws, signalling renewed U.S. support for state-level experimentation and ending weeks of partisan wrangling.

Cloudflare data show bot traffic surging as chat-based answers displace link clicks, cutting referral revenue and accelerating calls for scraper-licensing schemes.

NSF-funded consortium will analyse how generative AI alters employment, wages and training needs, informing evidence-based labour policy.