The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, ro…
Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company pu…
“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, t…
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 Septembe…
London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies manage security and compliance. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the round, the company said in its funding announcement on 9 September. FinTech C…
Anthropic claims Claude refused instructions to potentially develop biological weapons — alleged state-linked accounts tried to evade identification and regional blocks
“If there is a way in, the modern AI threat will find it,” Kevin Mandia wrote in March, in the blog post that launched his cybersecurity startup, Armadin. Six months later, Amazon has elected him to its board of directors. Amazon announced the appointm…
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week as he resigned from Anthropic. He meant it as a serious warning. Within a day, the line had become a joke template on X. Dozens of u…
Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a con…
A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…