Episode-006 AI and Tech Related News as on 19/09/2025 18:50 PM

 

Anthropic’s First Big Brand Push
Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, has launched its first ever major brand campaign, titled "Keep thinking". Axios
The goal: broaden appeal beyond enterprise clients into general consumers. The messaging emphasises safety, responsibility, and helping humans solve complex problems—rather than replacing human thinking. Axios

Nvidia Acquires Enfabrica Talent + Tech
Nvidia has spent over US$900 million to bring in Enfabrica’s CEO Rochan Sankar, other personnel, and license some of its tech. Reuters+1
Enfabrica makes systems that help large numbers of AI chips be networked efficiently (so that performance doesn’t degrade when you scale). Because AI workloads are becoming massive, this kind of efficiency is critical. Reuters

U.S. House to Pilot Microsoft Copilot
The U.S. House of Representatives is lifting its ban on staffers using AI tools and starting a pilot for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Up to 6,000 staffers will use it over a year. The Times of India
Earlier bans were due to security/data‐leak concerns—this marks a shift to more acceptance. The Times of India

UK-U.S. $350 Billion Tech & AI Deal
Donald Trump (U.S.) and Keir Starmer (UK) have signed a $350B “Technology Prosperity Deal aimed at strengthening cooperation in AI, quantum computing, and nuclear energy. New York Post
It includes building nuclear reactors, investing in AI research, chip and data center exports, etc. Expected to create ~17,500 jobs (mostly in the UK) and to build up infrastructure/investment pipelines. New York Post

Summit on AI + DC: U.S.-China AI Race & Regulation
At the Axios AI+ DC Summit, topics like the U.S-China rivalry in AI, potential job displacement due to AI, and regulations took center stage. Axios
Key voices warned about risks and called for safety standards. Axios

Atlassian Buys DX for $1 Billion
Atlassian acquired Utah-based “DX,” a firm focusing on measuring and improving developer productivity and how teams use AI tools. The acquisition costs ~$1B in cash + restricted stock. The Australian
Atlassian plans to integrate DX into existing tools (Jira, Bitbucket, etc.) so enterprises can better see if their investment in AI is actually boosting productivity. The Australian

Meta in Licensing Talks with News Publishers
Meta is in discussions with Fox Corp, News Corp, Axel Springer, etc., to license content for its AI tools (Meta Assistant on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp). New York Post
The trend: AI platforms increasingly need content providers to sign licensing, partly to address concerns about scraping, copyright, content attribution, etc. New York Post

Google DeepMind’s “Historic” AI Breakthrough
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 model recently won a gold medal at the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) for solving a “real-world computational problem” (optimizing liquid distribution in a complex network). It outperformed human teams in at least that problem. The Guardian
It still missed a couple of tasks in the contest—so not perfect—but the achievement is being likened to classic AI milestones (e.g. Deep Blue, AlphaGo). The Guardian

Huawei’s AI Chip Plan to Challenge Nvidia
Huawei has publicly laid out its roadmap to take on Nvidia in hardware. Bloomberg.com
Specifically, new designs for its “SuperPod” clusters capable of linking many Ascend AI accelerators (over 15,000 units) so they can work together as coherent systems. New generations of Ascend chips are to come next year. Bloomberg.com

Intel & Nvidia Team Up on CPU/GPU Integration
Intel and Nvidia are collaborating to build custom datacenter and client CPUs that link with NVIDIA’s NVLink, and also creating x86 system-on-chips (SoCs) that integrate RTX GPU chiplets. Newsroom
Nvidia will also invest US$5 billion in Intel’s stock as part of this collaboration. Newsroom

OECD Report on AI Use in Public Administration
The OECD has released a report analysing how governments are adopting AI in public administration. It finds many initiatives are still pilots; scaling AI across government has challenges—such as capacity, trust, oversight, regulation. OECD

Nvidia’s £2 Billion Investment in UK AI Startups
Nvidia pledged £2 billion (≈ €2.3B) to support UK AI startups. euronews
The initiative is part of a broader set of commitments during state visits and made in the context of boosting the UK’s AI ecosystem. Included are plans for building AI factories, harnessing academic research, helping venture capital outside London, etc.