This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

How NVIDIA-Deloitte Partnership Advances Physical AI

From language models to systems that embody intelligence, AI has come a long way in recent years. 

This advancement means that digital twin technologies, robotics and immersive simulation tools have quickly moved from experimentation to being central components of competitive manufacturing and logistics strategies. 

In this context, when Deloitte announced a major expansion of its physical AI capabilities through a deepened collaboration with tech giant, NVIDIA, it came as welcome news for those admirers and users of the industrial metaverse.

“Physical AI is moving fast from experimentation to real-world deployment, and changing how work is performed,” says Nitin Mittal, Deloitte Global AI leader. 

“By leveraging NVIDIA’s advanced technology stack with Deloitte’s engineering expertise and deep industry knowledge, we are helping organizations to build new intelligent physical spaces in the age of AI.”

US-Iran Conflict: AI's Increasingly Central Role in Warfare

As the US and Israeli militaries continue to target Iran, AI is increasingly at the heart of the conflict. 

Even after US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth moved to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, the company’s AI tools, including Claude, have reportedly played a key role in military strikes on Iran. 

From identifying targets and gaining legal approval to executing the strikes themselves, AI is speeding up decision-making at every level.

Various reports indicate AI was used in the initial missile strikes on Iran, including operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who reigned for almost four decades.

Amazon, NVIDIA and the US$110bn Show of Faith in OpenAI

OpenAI's bid to "scale AI for everyone" just went up a notch. 

The trailblazing startup has just secured a US$110bn investment consisting of US$30bn from SoftBank, US$30bn from NVIDIA and US$50bn from Amazon, taking its pre-money valuation to US$730bn. 

At the same time, OpenAI has signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference compute with NVIDIA. The agreements are focused on compute, distribution and capital, three elements OpenAI identifies as essential to meet growing demand across consumers, developers and businesses.

Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI, says: “We’re pushing the frontier across infrastructure, research and products to make AI more capable, reliable and broadly useful.

"SoftBank, NVIDIA and Amazon are long-term partners who share our ambition to turn real scientific progress into systems that deliver meaningful benefits for people at global scale. Building AI that works for everyone will require deep collaboration across the stack and we’re excited to do this together.”

Why Anthropic and the US Government are Feuding Over AI

The US Department of War, in its plans to weaponise AI for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, has locked horns with AI pioneer Anthropic.

Being one of the first AI companies to work with the US government and military, Anthropic tools are widely deployed in various levels and have been engaged in classified operations since 2024. 

The fallout happened as US President Donald Trump and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, pushed the company to remove AI safeguards to allow “any lawful use” of Anthropic’s technology for military purposes.

The company refused, stating that it could not in “good conscience accede to their request” as legal constraints have not yet caught up with the power of AI. 

PwC: How AI is Transforming Business Decision-Making

As AI becomes more deeply integrated into core business operations, companies are rethinking how sustainability insights can drive strategy, planning and investment decisions.

What was once treated as a separate reporting obligation is now converging with financial performance, operational resilience and long-term growth.

Sammy Lakshmanan, Digital and Sustainability Partner at PwC US, explores this evolution on a daily basis.

In this Q&A, he delves into PwC’s 2026 AI Business Predictions, highlighting how the intersection of AI and sustainability is set to transform decision-making for business leaders over the coming months.