The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war

Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artifici…

amber raises €7M to expand its AI-powered business knowledge platform

AIplatform amber has raised €7 million in Series A funding to expand acrossEurope and further develop its technology to help small and medium-sizedbusinesses access and use internal company knowledge….

Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises

Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing that…

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text

OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not av…

Google reportedly taps AMD to design next-generation TPU — hybrid AI ASIC could integrate on-package CPU cores for reinforcement learning
Google reportedly taps AMD to design next-generation TPU — hybrid AI ASIC could integrate on-package CPU cores for reinforcement learning

Google may be building a TPU with on-package CPU cores specifically for agentic and reinforced learning workloads, according to a rumor.

Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’s …

Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs

Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being clo…

Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company pr…

LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T
LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will…

AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale
AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale

AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic. AMD has rai…