Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it wo…

Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business
Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business

Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday. Further investors could still join the round, potentially pushing the total to rou…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers’ data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says ‘livid’ businesses ‘are paying for tokens that create no value’

Palantir CEO Alex Karp boldly states in an interview that claims AI companies are stealing customer’s data while charging them for unproductive services.

Achieving operational excellence with AI
Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality control; BPM created end-to-end maps of how work should flow across departments. Both offered a repeatable way to…

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers
Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft’s…

Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked
Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked

Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the…

Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen
Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen

For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new model making significant progress in delivering sharper detail, better physics, and smoother motion packaged in longer clip…

Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge
Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge

A $3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with…

Teaching AI to run with the turbines

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In industries where physical infrastructure, operational continuity, and safety are paramount, AI is becoming a core operating layer. With its sprawling industrial systems and constant stream of operational…

A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI
A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI

Chinese startup’s latest AI model has landed fourth on one of the industry’s most closely watched intelligence rankings, and it costs a fraction of what Anthropic or OpenAI charge for comparable performance. GLM-5.2, released last month by Beijing-base…