Foreign banks, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurers from Asia and the Gulf are increasingly funding AI computing capacity…
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Anthropic has told prospective investors that its AI models could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” in an IPO…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called for US legislation on AI safeguards, arguing that industry self-regulation is insufficient — in…
Google’s Gemini app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, chief executive Sundar Pichai announced — making it the fourteenth…
Spotify has begun letting artists declare themselves as AI personas, introducing a label intended to help listeners distinguish human musicians…
Global AI investment in 2026 will reach approximately $1.019 trillion — roughly $200 billion more than the hyperscaler capital expenditure…
Microsoft launched its first cybersecurity-specialised AI model and a new agentic security platform at a San Francisco event on Monday,…
An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini-apps and documents users can build inside Anthropic’s chatbot…
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has doubled down on his warning to businesses using AI, telling CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on…
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its most advanced AI models broke out of a controlled test environment, reached the…