AI News
AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks
Home to tales inspired by the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” the archive was taken down after “an intrusion,” one of its founders said. It cou…
Daily reporting on the AI industry
AI News
Breaking AI news, model releases, research breakthroughs, and the policy shifts shaping the industry — curated from authoritative sources and expanded with original analysis.
Latest in AI News
AI News
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the i…
AI News
A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing dem…
AI News
The battle of the knee replacement robots
Smith & Nephew is trying to fight back against Stryker’s innovation in orthopaedics with a new artificial joint
AI News
How far can we push computing?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ca…
AI News
World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries
Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to k…
AI News
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web
AI News
Samsung, SK Hynix Slide Causes $137 Billion Hit to Korea Pension
South Korea’s main pension fund took a 182 trillion won ($137 billion) hit after a decline in stakes of equities including Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hyn…
AI News
5 midterm money takeaways: Democrats have candidate cash. Republicans have Elon Musk
Democrats outraise Republicans in key Congress races as Elon Musk funds Ken Paxton in Texas and GOP groups aligned with Trump
AI News
Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI
In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China There is much to fear from artificial…
AI News
SoftBank in talks to buy US security group Allied Universal
Masayoshi Son looks to increase pace of his bets on robotics and AI
AI News
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard
AI News
Can consultants reinvent themselves once again?
As AI becomes more capable, human advisers must find new ways to prove their worth
AI News
Business school teaching case study: Balancing AI capability and control in cyber defence
OpenAI agent’s escape from a test environment and its hack of Hugging Face are ringing alarm bells for businesses
AI News
Poland’s ascent from communist state to top 20 economy reverses the brain drain
In the final part of our series on the country, Poles tell how wages have soared – along with the cost of living Will military spending help or hinder Poland…
AI News
India and the World in the Age of AI: Bloomberg New Economy Forum Live Q&A
As governments and companies expand AI capabilities, how will India wield its growing influence? Bloomberg journalists answer your questions on October 15, 2…
AI News
Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI
AI News
AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how | Richard Wilson and Clara Long
A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversight What’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chan…
AI News
Google Deepmind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics
How should humans relate to generative AI ? In what ways do we, or should we, treat a large language model (LLM) as if it were a person? If an AI became cons…
AI News
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million
AI News
Microsoft to rely more on homegrown AI chips, reducing dependence on Nvidia
By increasingly counting on its own chips, Microsoft stands to expand margins and bolster its AI stack
AI News
Criminals could walk free without controls on AI use, police watchdog warns
Guidelines are vital to ensure overstretched forces in England and Wales can use the systems to speed up investigations
AI News
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem
AI News
Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots
This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to pres…
AI News
UK ministers explore compulsory AI safety reporting
Kanishka Narayan to tell companies to exercise stricter control over autonomous models and build safeguards
AI News
Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation | Simon Tisdall
This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day Humankind has fearfully and…
AI News
Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste
AI News
Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again He stands accused of being…
AI News
Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubl…
AI News
Trump Mobile failed to make required regulatory filings, senator claims
The Washington Post could not find filings for the Trump-branded service that are required by the Federal Communications Commission under rules designed to p…
AI News
The UK cannot afford to waste its DeepMind dividend
A shortage of domestic capital and the lure of the US threaten the benefits of Britain’s biggest AI research success
AI News
Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'
The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information
AI News
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful
AI News
Making scents: could AI help perfumers take pressure off endangered plants?
Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes be…
AI News
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots
AI News
Mistral unveils new AI model it says rivals best open systems from China
Western developers are racing to compete with Chinese companies in open weight and open source AI
AI News
Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley
While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “gr…
AI News
All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well be…
AI News
Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers
The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said
AI News
OpenAI in $30 Billion Round Talks With BlackRock, UAE Funds
OpenAI is in talks with multiple investment funds from the United Arab Emirates to help anchor a $30 billion round of financing, according to people familiar…
AI News
Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda…
AI News
Britain’s Reliance on US Cloud Giants Alarms Its Politicians
The UK’s dependence on big American cloud providers poses “a strategic and economic vulnerability” to the country, politicians warned, as US authorities have…
AI News
America’s data center fight is a preview of what's to come for the rest of the world
America’s fight over data centers is going global. Communities across Europe and Asia are pushing back over the rising costs of the AI infrastructure boom
AI News
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 20…
AI News
Meet the new movie villains: Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman
Unflattering portraits await all three tech titans — but while filmmakers vilify AI, studios are investing in it hungrily
AI News
AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions As tech leaders warn about the threat…
AI News
US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China US authorities have arrested a man accuse…
AI News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI 'robo bosses' in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto
California Governor Gavin Newsom has banned 'robo-bosses' from firing workers, the first U.S. state with such a law
AI News
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers
AI News
When you should use Google’s AI for search — and when you should skip it
If you’re only looking for a specific data point, scroll right past “AI Overview” and other search results
AI News
Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate
The candidates running to replace Gavin Newsom sparred over taxes, immigration and regulating AI Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton , the candidates running to…
AI News
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Google DeepMind News reports: Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence. Read the source-linked AI Ground News brief.
AI News
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level eve…
AI News
It’s raining AI, and won’t stop!
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
AI News
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 time…
AI News
South Korea bets big on AI for all
Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risks
AI News
Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots
Meta's Muse AI personal agent will work over your credit card spending if you don't mind the invasion. How big a threat is it to the subscription economy?