Exclusive: Danish legal research startup Pandektes raises €13.5M Series A
Exclusive: Danish legal research startup Pandektes raises €13.5M Series A

Building a company like this requires relentlessness, belief and dedication. Every start-up will have low points, but we’ve always as founders had this die hard conviction that we could build a better and new way to do legal research, said Casper Laurs…

Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force
Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force

Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took…

RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New…

OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants
OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants

A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, Bloomberg reported. …

Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leader…

Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists

Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks sinc…

OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports
OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journal first reported the exits on Thursday. Two of the three were safety researchers, and one was a research programme manager, Rachel M…

Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic
Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the Whit…

Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatev…

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC

OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wed…