US authorities have dismantled QTFY’s QScan and QTRouter platforms, exposing a China-linked service model that blended exploit trading, automated scanning and hijacked IoT devices to reach critical infrastructure while concealing where attacks began.
The AI race is accelerating faster than the real economy can adapt. Sam Altman concedes adoption is slower than expected, while Nvidia’s record results, Musk’s ambitions, Chinese open models and new jailbreak risks reveal an intensifying contest for compute, influence and control. Across the world.
Brazil is investing US$444 million in AI infrastructure spanning Chinese and US technology. Its strategy avoids dependence on one power, using rival suppliers to build sovereign compute, domestic models and leverage, although genuine autonomy will depend on its energy, skills and strong execution.
Brazil is investing US$444 million in AI infrastructure spanning Chinese and US technology. Its strategy avoids dependence on one power, using rival suppliers to build sovereign compute, domestic models and leverage, although genuine autonomy will depend on its energy, skills and strong execution.
A Zhuhai operator used DeepSeek, a Hermes agent and a godmode jailbreak to hunt 460-plus targets. Open-weight models made the offensive kit a shopping list.
AMD's proposed Taalas acquisition targets the fast-growing AI inference market, adding specialised silicon technology designed around model-specific workloads to its Instinct, EPYC, Helios and ROCm platform.
An OpenAI test model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. Days later, Xi Jinping cast China as the champion of open AI. Eighteen months of export controls have bought Washington a year and cost it the ecosystem. Containment is not holding, and the tempo is no longer human.
Grok 4.5 marks SpaceXAI’s first serious enterprise strike, turning the $60 billion Cursor bet into a workflow weapon. Cheaper tokens, coding depth and agentic tools shift the AI race from chatbot theatre to the factory floor of software, finance, legal and cyber work at global scale now worldwide
Anthropic’s reported 1.4 GW Australian AI tender signals a major investment opportunity, but also a harder sovereignty question: will Australia and the Global South build capability inside this frontier infrastructure, or remain dependent on foreign chips, models, permissions and inference margins?
At midyear, the AI race has become a contest for global power. Energy, chips, cybersecurity, capital markets and state intervention now shape who controls the inference economy, who pays for it, and who is left exposed in the next industrial order of machines, markets and sovereignty to come ahead.
Empower AI secures a $255M DISA contract for Pentagon IT automation while Odyssey raises $310M for world models, signalling a major acceleration in defence and enterprise AI investment.
Intel’s second act is not nostalgia but necessity. As Google, Nvidia and Apple seek a credible backup to TSMC, Washington weaponises chip policy and AI mega-IPOs loom, Intel is being revalued as strategic ballast for the next decade of compute.
NVIDIA launches the Isaac GR00T open humanoid robot platform and positions DRIVE Hyperion as the global robotaxi standard, signalling the decisive shift from digital AI to physical intelligence.
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