Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade tru…
Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August…
Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks after it was reported to be seeking up to $3.5B. The London company filed t…
Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human? The address was the centrepiece of a day UNESCO had dedicated to artific…
Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nad…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign minist…
SoftBank Group has invested $225 million into Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that makes work vehicles drive themselves.The two have also set up a joint venture to build self-driving machines for big road, rail and airport jobs. SoftBa…
Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven dist…
Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global s…
Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks…