The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of t…
A coalition that owns nearly 400 local US newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. The publishers call AI training on their reporting a death knell for local journalism. It is the largest copyright case the local press has brought yet. Local newspaper…
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build its first data centre in Indonesia through an eight-year partnership with Nvidia. The 360-megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, an island just off…
Mental health chatbots all share the same limitation: the user has to reach out first. That is not always easy when someone is stressed, anxious, or unable to articulate how they feel. Researchers at the University of Ottawa are building an AI assistan…
Micron Technology briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market valuation on Thursday, closing the week at roughly $1.27 trillion. The stock has soared over 236% in the past month alone, reaching $1,132 a share. Before mid-2025, it spent years below $100….
The Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday that an AI investment bust could hit credit markets with disruption comparable to the 2008 financial crisis. In its annual report, the Basel-based institution listed AI-led risks alongside inflati…
North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, paper repair orders, manual parts ordering. The global auto repair software market is project…
Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions have affected several Google clients, with …
India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, told Tech…
When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Salesforce promoted Anthropic’s new product on social med…