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15 Jun 2026

Adani and Jabil plan massive AI data centre hardware manufacturing push in India

Adani Group and US manufacturing giant Jabil Inc. have announced plans for a strategic alliance to build AI data centre hardware in India. The proposed partnership aims to create multi-gigawatt manufacturing capacity for AI racks, servers, and supporting infrastructure, positioning India as a global exporter rather than just a consumer of AI hardware. However, the deal remains unsigned with no disclosed investment figures yet.

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Salesforce acquires Fin for $3.6 billion to accelerate AI customer service deployment

Salesforce is buying AI customer service platform Fin, formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion to strengthen its Agentforce platform. Fin's AI agents resolve 76% of support requests without human intervention across channels like WhatsApp, Slack, and phone. The deal brings 30,000 customers and proprietary AI technology to Salesforce's enterprise arsenal.

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Macron bets France AI future on €75B pledges as G7 summit spotlights Europe's tech ambitions

Emmanuel Macron is using the G7 summit to position France as Europe's AI powerhouse, backed by SoftBank's €75 billion commitment for data-center capacity. But the ambitious pitch relies heavily on foreign investment and multi-year pledges that may prove fragile. With less than a year left in office, Macron's legacy hinges on whether these commitments translate into built infrastructure.

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Zhipu AI shares surge 33% as Wall Street bets on China AI after Anthropic restrictions

Zhipu AI shares jumped 33% on Monday after JPMorgan raised its price target to HK$1,400, citing strong pricing power. The Chinese AI model developer gains momentum as Washington tightens restrictions on Anthropic's advanced models, while Zhipu announces its GLM-5.2 open-source AI model with no usage restrictions.

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Asia hedge funds deliver triple-digit returns riding AI supply chain and semiconductor boom

Asia hedge funds posted exceptional returns exceeding 100% in early 2026, capitalizing on investments across the AI supply chain and semiconductor industry. WT Asset Management's China Focus fund gained 103%, while E20 Capital surged 136%, driven by positions in AI hardware companies and memory-chip makers. Regional funds leveraged Asia's dominance in semiconductor manufacturing to identify supply constraints early.

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Satya Nadella warns against AI centralization, calls for frontier ecosystem over models

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that the global economy must prioritize building a frontier ecosystem rather than relying on a few dominant AI models. He warns against repeating globalization mistakes where value concentrates in the hands of a few, urging companies to build learning loops that compound human capital and token capital.

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Meta's $14B AI gamble with Alexandr Wang falls short as developers turn skeptical

A year after Meta invested over $14 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, the company struggles to prove it can monetize its new Muse Spark model. Despite delivering its first proprietary AI model, Meta's stock has dropped 18% while developers remain unconvinced, questioning whether the social media giant can compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race.

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13 Jun 2026

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing soars to $13,250 in just one year

Nvidia's flagship workstation GPU, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, now costs $13,250—a staggering 55% increase from its $8,565 launch price in March 2025. The price surge stems from an ongoing memory shortage and relentless AI sector demand for high-capacity VRAM cards. Even the RTX 5090 gaming GPU has crossed $4,000, doubling its original MSRP.

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OpenText Ireland commits €105M AI investment to create 400 jobs in Cork and Galway

Canadian enterprise data management company OpenText announces €105 million investment in Ireland, creating 400 highly-skilled jobs over three years. The commitment doubles OpenText's presence in Ireland and marks the single largest investment by a Canadian tech company in Ireland, focusing on agentic AI, sovereign cloud solutions, and cybersecurity capabilities for EMEA markets.

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Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes in Meta AI transformation, warns more errors likely ahead

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in an internal memo that the company made mistakes during its AI transformation. Following a major restructuring in May that cut 10% of its workforce and reassigned 7,000 employees to AI initiatives, Zuckerberg warned more errors are likely as Meta invests up to $145 billion in AI infrastructure.

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Meta AI Unit Faces Revolt as Engineers Call Forced Transfers and Data-Labeling Work 'The Gulag'

Meta's three-month-old Applied AI team of 6,500 engineers is in turmoil after forced reassignments to data-labeling tasks sparked widespread employee dissatisfaction. An expletive-laden outburst during a company livestream highlighted the crisis, prompting Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth to acknowledge mistakes in the AI reorganization that has left morale at near-record lows.

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SpaceX rents Colossus 1 after latency issues derail Grok AI training plans

SpaceX has leased its Colossus 1 AI data center to Anthropic and Google after encountering technical problems that prevented using it for Grok AI development. The company faced latency issues connecting three Memphis facilities and hardware mismatches between Nvidia chip generations. What was built as SpaceX's AI training hub now generates $2.17 billion monthly in rental income instead.

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12 Jun 2026

AI in healthcare is driving costs up 9% instead of cutting expenses, PwC report reveals

A new PwC report shows AI in healthcare is pushing medical costs up by 9% in 2027, matching the highest rate since 2010-11. AI-enabled software and scribes are documenting care more thoroughly, capturing higher-severity billing codes that inflate costs even when actual patient care remains unchanged. The findings challenge expectations that AI adoption in healthcare would reduce expenses.

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SK Hynix to triple memory production by 2034 as AI demand reshapes semiconductor industry

SK Hynix, the world's largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory for AI GPUs, plans to triple its wafer production capacity by 2034—accelerating a timeline originally set for 2045. The expansion responds to surging AI infrastructure demand that has sent memory prices soaring, though relief for consumers remains years away.

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India's Agentic AI returns set to surge fivefold to $14.4 million as enterprises accelerate adoption

Indian enterprises are rapidly advancing from AI experimentation to value-driven implementation, with agentic AI returns projected to grow fivefold to $14.4 million. A new SAP study reveals that India ranks second globally in strategic AI investment approaches, with organizations planning to invest $25.9 million and increase AI spending by 45% over the next two years.

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