The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White…
The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. “We shouldn’t depend solely on systems …
One focus of these contingency plans is how to manage Congress after a catastrophic event puts these labs in the spotlight.
Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe…
Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at General Atlantic, spoke on stage at Wave by Vento in Turi…
Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The ch…
A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds again this week for Semafor. The 20-page client alert was first published i…
An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary re…
Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and…
AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through…