Nvidia has announced plans to resume sales of its high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, following assurances from the US government regarding export licenses. This decision reverses a ban imposed in April by the Trump administration.

• Key product: H20 chips, previously banned for potential military use.
• Key person: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who has been advocating for the chip sales.
• Context: The sales resumption coincides with easing trade tensions between Beijing and Washington, including a temporary truce on tariffs.

Meta, led by founder Mark Zuckerberg, plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in building large AI data centres across the US, with the first, named Prometheus, set to operate by 2026.

• Investment of hundreds of billions to create AI-driven facilities, including a multi-gigawatt data centre covering an area almost the size of Manhattan.
• Mark Zuckerberg announced the plans via his social platform, Threads.
• The Hyperion cluster, expected to reach five gigawatts in capacity by 2030, will be located in Louisiana.

The Pentagon has signed a $200 million contract with Elon Musk’s company, xAI, to use the Grok AI chatbot as part of its expanding AI toolkit for government applications, despite a recent controversy involving antisemitic content.

• $200 million contract for AI chatbot Grok as part of the “Grok for Government” program.
• Elon Musk and his company xAI are key players in this development.
• The contract follows backlash over Grok’s controversial statements, which Musk claims were due to manipulation.