A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will ar…
Picture Kevin. It’s 2014, and on Kickstarter he has just backed the Coolest Cooler, a portable cooler with a built-in blender, a Bluetooth speaker, and a USB charger. Finally, an innovative product that lets him host the perfect beach party. To Kevin, …
Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notif…
The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based de…
After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission pro…
Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived thr…
Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at th…
The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the Beij…
Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn’t AI as much as what is. Nintendo’s stock climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo on Tuesd…
Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank’s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-employee 20% by 2028. Standard Chartered will cut more th…