For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone…
A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-ba…
Munich’s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovereign AI. A lot of the money paying for it is American. Europe’s biggest defence startup just got a lot bigger. On Monday He…
Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigge…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…
Samsung Foundry soon to join TSMC in production of Tesla’s AI5 processor, a LinkedIn post reveals.
Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartest people in the room are telling you they cannot see the road. Economists do not usually panic in public. This week, more …
Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most va…
France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Euro…
The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Whether it ever ships may come down to Elon Musk. Cursor made its name as a tool for people who write code. Now it is b…