UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI’s data practices “theft” while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time […]

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has “threads” running different tasks in parallel, with a “coordinator” directing everything: […]

Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.

Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.

Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping turn saved inspiration into purchases.

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia

Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.

AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs

Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th – well ahead of recent apocalyptic warnings. A majority sees AI as a threat […]

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation.  It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a […]