‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X
‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of m…

Never-skilling: the research says juniors using AI never learn to debug
Never-skilling: the research says juniors using AI never learn to debug

Research published this year has given a name to something employers have been circling for a while. Deskilling is what happens when an expert stops practising and gets worse. Never-skilling is what happens when a novice never gets good in the first pl…

Yann LeCun’s new VC fund lasted eight hours. Then it vanished
Yann LeCun’s new VC fund lasted eight hours. Then it vanished

A shiny new VC firm named the AI pioneer as a partner on Friday morning. By Friday night, the fund did not exist. Yann LeCun has had a busy year. Now he has had a strange one. On Friday, a new venture firm called Extelligence Invest named the man often…

Xi Jinping will give the keynote at China’s flagship AI summit for the first time
Xi Jinping will give the keynote at China’s flagship AI summit for the first time

Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and deliver a keynote speech, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Monday. It is the first time China’s leader has appeared at …

South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom
South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom

South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, the government said on Monday. It is the clearest sign yet that Seoul inten…

TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model
TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model

Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, chief executive K Krithivasan said. The move is India’s largest IT firm answering the question …

AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it
AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it

The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their r…

Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.
Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.

The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument in…

Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.
Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.

Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024, CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% across the week. The move was…

The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model
The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model

For years the industry ran on one assumption, that the biggest model wins. That belief is now breaking down, CNBC reports. Companies are choosing models by task, cost, and control instead of benchmark position. The frontier still matters, but it is no …