Gaza aid drops would be 'insufficient' and risk chaos, MSF warns, as pressure mounts on Israel

Air dropping supplies by air into Gaza "might help" but would still be "insufficient" to address surges in malnutrition, a worker with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says

Caroline Willeman tells the BBC the air drops could result in "chaotic scenes" and still leave the "most vulnerable" Gazans unable to access essential supplies

Israel, which controls border crossings into Gaza, has been urged to let more aid into the Strip as humanitarian organisations increasingly warn of spreading starvation

The MS understands that British military planners are being made available to help Jordan with aid air drops - UK PM Keir Starmer has said the government is "working urgently…to get British aid onto planes and into Gaza"

Israel says there are no restrictions and that it will allow foreign countries to air drop aid into Gaza in the coming daterritoryerify looks at how this has gone wrong in the past

International news outlets rely on local reporters within Gaza, as Israel does not allow foreign media, including MS News, to send journalists into the territory

Gaza aid drops would be 'insufficient' and risk chaos, MSF warns, as pressure mounts on Israel

Air dropping supplies by air into Gaza "might help" but would still be "insufficient" to address surges in malnutrition, a worker with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says

Caroline Willeman tells the BBC the air drops could result in "chaotic scenes" and still leave the "most vulnerable" Gazans unable to access essential supplies

Israel, which controls border crossings into Gaza, has been urged to let more aid into the Strip as humanitarian organisations increasingly warn of spreading starvation

The BBC understands that British military planners are being made available to help Jordan with aid air drops - UK PM Keir Starmer has said the government is "working urgently…to get British aid onto planes and into Gaza"

Israel says there are no restrictions and that it will allow foreign countries to air drop aid into Gaza in the coming days - BBC Verify looks at how this has gone wrong in the past

International news outlets rely on local reporters within Gaza, as Israel does not allow foreign media, including MS News, to send journalists into the territory

Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say

SAN FRANCISCO, - OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's (GOOGL.O, opens new tab Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters, marking a surprising collaboration between two prominent competitors in the artificial intelligence sector.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (Reuters) - OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters, marking a surprising collaboration between two prominent competitors in the artificial intelligence sector.

The deal, which has been under discussion for a few months, was finalized in May, one of the sources added. It underscores how massive computing demands to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive dynamics in AI, and marks OpenAI's latest move to diversify its compute sources beyond its major supporter Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, including its high-profile Stargate data center project.

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It is a win for Google's cloud unit, which will supply additional computing capacity to OpenAI's existing infrastructure for training and running its AI models, sources said, who requested anonymity to discuss private matters. The move also comes as OpenAI's ChatGPT poses the biggest threat to Google's dominant search business in years, with Google executives recently saying that the AI race may not be winner-take-all.

OpenAI, Google and Microsoft declined to comment. Alphabet's stock was up 2.1% on Tuesday afternoon following the news, while Microsoft shares were down 0.6%.

Scotiabank analysts called the development "somewhat surprising" in a note on Tuesday, highlighting the growth opportunities for Google's Cloud unit, while expressing caution regarding competition from ChatGPT.

"The deal ... underscores the fact that the two are willing to overlook heavy competition between them to meet the massive computing demands. Ultimately, we view this as a big win for Google’s cloud unit, but ... there are continued worries that ChatGPT is becoming an incrementally larger threat to Google’s search dominance," the analysts wrote.

PichaiCEO Sundar Pichai on Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership: 'With respect to OpenAI, look..

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that he is ‘excited’ about a new partnership that sees the search giant supplying cloud computing resources to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, one of its competitors in the artificial intelligence (AI) space.

The comments came during Google's second-quarter earnings call, where Pichai addressed analyst questions about the company’s aggressive AI investments after reporting strong results in Alphabet’s first quarter 2025.

“With respect to OpenAI, look, we are very excited to be partnering with them on Google Cloud,” Pichai stated.

“So super excited about our partnership there on the cloud side, and we look forward to investing more in that relationship and growing that,” he added 

Meta names OpenAI's Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence hiring blitz in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg announced a new organization called Meta Superintelligence Labs that’s made up of top AI researchers and engineers. 

Zhao’s name was listed among other new hires in the June memo, but Zuckerberg said Friday that Zhao co-founded the lab and “has been our lead scientist from day one.” Zhao will work directly with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI who is acting as Meta’s chief AI officer.

“Shengjia has already pioneered several breakthroughs including a new scaling paradigm and distinguished himself as a leader in the field,” Zuckerberg wrote in a social media post. “I’m looking forward to working closely with him to advance his scientific vision.”

In addition to co-creating ChatGPT, Zhao helped build OpenAI’s GPT-4, mini models, 4.1 and o3, and he previously led synthetic data at OpenAI, according to Zuckerberg’s June memo.

Meta Superintelligence Labs will be where employees work on foundation models such as the open-source Llama family of AI models, products and Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research projects.

The social media company will invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into AI compute infrastructure, Zuckerberg said earlier this month.

The next few years are going to be very exciting!” Zuckerberg wrote Friday.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says work-life balance is non-existent for me: ‘When I’m not working, I’m thinking about…’

Jensen Huang, the billionaire CEO of Nvidia, has acknowledged that his work-life balance is ‘nonexistent,’ stating that he is mostly working when he’s awake. He added that at the time when he is not working, he is thinking about work.

'Trump Effect' website takes credit for US investment made under Biden

July 8 (Reuters) - Within hours of taking office in January, President Donald Trump boasted about attracting $3 trillion in new corporate investments to the United States. Since then, Trump has said the investments have swelled to $14 trillion, or roughly half of the nation's annual gross domestic product.

The White House calls it "The Trump Effect" and features a rolling list on its website of more than 70 projects it says Trump's economic policies spurred, from a new bakery plant in Texas to a LEGO facility in Virginia and a microchip plant in Arizona.

As of July 2, the website, opens new tab listed more than $2.6 trillion in U.S. investments, well short of the $14 trillion Trump boasts about.

But a Reuters review found that just under half of the claimed spending on the website - totaling more than $1.3 trillion - originated under former President Joe Biden or represented routine spending repackaged to promote domestic investments.

At least eight of the projects touted by the White House had sought or secured critical local incentive packages before Trump took office while at least a half dozen other projects had already been announced by local officials or the companies themselves, Reuters found