Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…

Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal
Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal

Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qu…

Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth

Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit s…

OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing
OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing

OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomb…

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default

Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about …

Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship
Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship

One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board sea…

Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity

Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Stree…

Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power
Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power

A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and t…

Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA
Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA

The world’s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AI’s $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday….

AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches
AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches

After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a …