🇪🇺 Google Beats OpenAI in NATO’s New AI Deal

Today’s Highlights:

• 🇪🇺 Google Beats OpenAI in NATO’s New AI Deal

• 🇮🇳 Google & Accel Join Forces to Back Indian AI Startups

• 🧬 Harvard’s AI Detects Rare Diseases Faster Than Ever

• ⚡ Meta debuts Zoomer to optimize AI training & inference

• 🌍 UAE pledges $1B to expand AI in Africa

• ⏳ OpenAI to sunset GPT-4o API by February 2026

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🇪🇺 Google Beats OpenAI in NATO’s New AI Deal

Google Cloud has secured a multi‑million‑dollar sovereign‑cloud contract with NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA), topping the AI‑infrastructure race for military‑grade workloads. 

The Details:

• NATO chose Google Cloud’s air‑gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) for secure, classified data and AI workloads. 

• The contract supports NATO’s Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC), modernizing sensitive data handling and AI use. 

• GDC ensures strict data sovereignty, disconnected from public internet and compliant with high‑security standards. 

• The deal came just as global demand for sovereign and defense‑grade cloud AI infrastructure surged, placing Google ahead of rivals. 

• NATO’s move signals that sovereign‑cloud + AI combos are now viable for military alliances — a strategic win for Google’s enterprise ambitions. 

Why it matters:

This deal marks the first time NATO entrusted its sensitive, AI‑enabled workloads to a major public cloud, and it chose Google. That gives Google a geopolitical edge over AI rivals and highlights how AI infrastructure is becoming a domain of strategic power, not just commercial competition.

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🇮🇳 Google & Accel Join Forces to Back Indian AI Startups

Google has partnered with VC firm Accel to launch a new initiative aimed at India’s early-stage AI founders — offering funding, compute, and mentorship to build the next global AI breakout.

The Details:

• The program is called Atoms AI Cohort 2026 and will support pre-seed Indian AI startups.

• Each selected startup can receive up to $2 million in funding.

• Google will offer access to Gemini models, Cloud credits, and technical support.

• Areas of focus: productivity, coding tools, creativity, and entertainment.

• The initiative builds on Google’s broader AI push in India, including its $1.5B investment in local AI infrastructure.

Why it matters:

India is emerging as a key global AI hub. With top-tier resources and backing from Google + Accel, this program could fast-track India’s most promising builders and ideas onto the global stage.

HARVARD

🧬 Harvard’s AI Detects Rare Diseases Faster Than Ever

Harvard Medical School just unveiled a powerful set of AI tools designed to diagnose genetic and cellular diseases faster, smarter, and with greater accuracy than traditional methods.

The Details:

• New model popEVE can analyze genetic variants and flag those likely to cause disease—crucial for diagnosing rare disorders.

• It identified 100+ previously unknown harmful mutations in undiagnosed patients, unlocking new treatment possibilities.

• PDGrapher, another tool, scans diseased cells to recommend gene or drug fixes—accelerating drug discovery.

• Dr. CaBot mimics doctors by reasoning through symptoms and offering a step-by-step diagnostic breakdown.

• All models aim to shorten the diagnostic process for both rare and common diseases while offering deeper biological insight.

Why it matters:

These tools bring AI closer to acting like real medical experts. For families facing rare or complex diseases, it means faster answers—and new hope. For medicine, it’s a leap toward truly personalized healthcare.

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MORE AI & TECH NEWS

• U.S. may ease restrictions on Nvidia H200 chip sales to China amid diplomatic thaw and national security concerns.

• Altman admitted GPT-5 pretraining issues in leaked memo; OpenAI is building a new model “Shallotpeat” to chase AGI.

• Anthropic found models trained to cheat can evolve into deceptive and sabotaging behavior, but reframing tasks may help.

• Meta launched Zoomer, an AI platform to optimize training/inference workloads, reduce energy use, and cut costs.

• OpenAI will retire GPT-4o API in Feb 2026; devs are urged to move to faster, cheaper, more capable GPT-5.1.

• UAE launched a $1B “AI for Development” fund to build AI infrastructure across Africa, focusing on social good.

• Emirates partnered with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT Enterprise and lead AI-driven innovation across its operations.

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