
Tech Meme - 2 hours 15 min ago
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Stefano Ermon's Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion AI model designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than its rivals — Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that's used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos.

The Guardian - 2 hours 37 min ago
Facebook owner's investment described by semiconductor company as big bet' on artificial intelligence Business live latest updates The owner of Facebook has agreed to buy $60bn ( 44.5bn) of artificial intelligence chips from the US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices despite fears over the vast sums being spent on the AI industry . Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has clinched the five-year deal in which it will also buy 10% of the chip company. Continue reading...

Tech Meme - 2 hours 54 min ago
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg : Basis, which builds AI agents to help accounting firms with tasks like tax returns, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1.15B valuation, for $138M in total funding — AI-for-accounting startup Basis has surged to unicorn status with a new funding round as advances in artificial intelligence rattle the financial services markets.

Fox News - 3 hours 8 min ago
Elon Musk argues space offers the lowest-cost artificial intelligence computing with solar power advantages, and China's main space contractor apparently agrees.

CNBC - 3 hours 39 min ago
Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.

Attack of the Fanboy - 4 hours 25 min ago
Canada's Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon has summoned senior staff from OpenAI to Ottawa this week to discuss the company's safety...

Wired - 4 hours 55 min ago
In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things it just can't be a person.

The Next Web - 5 hours 50 min ago
VoiceLine, a Munich-based startup that builds voice-first artificial intelligence for enterprise frontline workers, has closed 10 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth, expand its product and bring its technology to more customers across Europe and beyond. The round was led by Alstin Capital and Peak, with continued participation from existing backers including Scalehouse […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 8 hours 55 min ago
Exclusive: NCA's Alex Murray says he hopes new 115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools It's not Robocop': UK police embrace AI efficiency' in complex investigations A police chief has admitted artificial intelligence used to boost crime fighting will contain bias but pledged to combat the risks. Labour wants a dramatic expansion of police use of AI within England and Wales, with police chiefs also believing it could help keep law enforcement up to date with new...

New York Times - 11 hours 44 min ago
A Defense Department report to Congress detailed a range of priorities for extra funding, including purchasing over a dozen new ships, enhancing weapons manufacturing and integrating artificial intelligence into the military's capabilities.

Daily Signal - 16 hours 6 min ago
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL The White House is engaging against a Florida bill that would establish limits on artificial intelligence including protections for minors, sources... Read More The post SCOOP: White House Working Against Florida Attempt to Limit AI for Minors, Seeking Federal Solution appeared first on The Daily Signal .

The Guardian - 16 hours 39 min ago
Anthropic says three Chinese firms used distillation' technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft. OpenAI leveled similar charges last month. Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax used a technique known as "distillation" using...

Slash Film - 16 hours 55 min ago
Steven Spielberg planned on adding a musical number to his 2001 sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, but couldn't make it work.

The Guardian - 16 hours 59 min ago
Company had suspended account of Tumbler Ridge shooter in June 2025 over furtherance of violent activities' Canada's artificial intelligence minister says he has summoned representatives from the technology company OpenAI after the company declined to alert police after suspending the account of a user who became the perpetrator of one of the country's the worst-ever school shootings . Evan Solomon says he is "deeply disturbed" by reports the company, which operates the popular...

Newser - 18 hours 17 min ago
US stocks slumped Monday after President Trump ramped up his newest tariffs, while investors continued to punish companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence revolution. The S&P 500 sank 71.76 points, or 1% to 6,837.75. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 821.91 points, or 1....

New York Times - 21 hours 25 min ago
Anthropic's chief executive, Dario Amodei, has pushed for regulations to create guardrails on artificial intelligence.

The Guardian - 23 hours 17 min ago
OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman , has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount of energy required by human development. "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human," Altman told the Indian Express recently while in India for the AI Impact summit. "It...

GeekSpin - 23 hours 55 min ago
Elon Musk has a new idea for the moon that involves a factory, artificial intelligence satellites, and a colossal catapult. Following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI on February 2, 2026, Elon Musk shared a company memo outlining his view that, within a few years, space would become the cheapest place to generate massive AI computing power […] Read the original article here: Elon Musk wants to put a massive catapult on the moon...

The Guardian - 23 hours 57 min ago
Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country's current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity 5GW more than the country's current peak demand. Continue reading...