SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device before its record IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly slimmer than an iPhone, runs on a proprietary operating system, integrates technology from xAI, and…
Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energ…
Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was art…
A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the m…
This article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia.As artificial intelligence accelerates global demand for compute, a parallel constraint is emerging with equal urgency: energy.From hyperscale d…
Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palant…
UiPath spent much of the year as one of software’s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing back. Its first profit and an all-in bet on AI agents are the reason. Shares in UiPath have rebounded in recent weeks. They …
Meta says it can turn brain activity into typed sentences without opening your skull. The leap is real. So is the catch: the system learns from typing, the one thing its intended users cannot do. On Monday, Meta unveiled the second version of Brain2Qwe…
For 30 years, small businesses fought to rank on Google. Now their customers are asking ChatGPT instead. A New York startup wants to make sure the local salon still shows up. The startup is Pie, and it has just stepped out of stealth with money to matc…
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every time—but if it…