
Tencent Plans to Double AI Investment to $5B in 2026
Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.

Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.

Seven AI and cloud companies pool $12.5M through OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega to build tools that help open-source maintainers cope with a flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports they can't triage.

Mistral's new Forge platform lets enterprises train frontier-grade AI models entirely on proprietary data, without sending any of it to a third party.

Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.

NVIDIA released OpenShell at GTC 2026 - an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI agents with locked filesystems, blocked networks, and YAML-defined policies. One command to secure Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw.

Microsoft Azure's Foundry platform now runs Fireworks AI's inference engine, bringing DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 into enterprise AI under a unified control plane.

OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.

Swedish AI app builder Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February, adding $100 million in a single month with a headcount that wouldn't fill a mid-sized office.

DPRK operatives use real-time deepfake video and LLM-generated CVs to pass European hiring pipelines, funneling income back to Pyongyang's weapons programs.

Mistral AI releases Small 4 - a 119B MoE with only 6B active parameters, 256K context, configurable reasoning, and Apache 2.0 license. Plus a new NVIDIA partnership to co-develop frontier open models.

NVIDIA announced DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 - a neural rendering model that adds photorealistic lighting, materials, and subsurface scattering directly to game pixels in real time.

Meta is reportedly planning to lay off 20% of its 79,000 workforce to offset $135 billion in AI spending - and the stock went up 3% on the news.