While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are s…
Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those t…
OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the proj…
The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopt…
Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi…
Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI b…
On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave noti…
Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn…
“Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that’s a lie, but I am confident that’s what it will cost.” That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial i…
The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology gr…