AI Giants Court Governments, Custom Silicon, and Enterprise Embedded Engineers
OpenAI floats 5% government stake, Anthropic eyes Samsung chip deal, Z.ai launches ZCode, Microsoft deploys 6,000 engineers.
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OpenAI in talks to give Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, FT reports
Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters
Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding
Microsoft launches $2.5 billion 'Frontier Company' to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients
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