Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-wei…

AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door
AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

AI has learned to find software bugs faster than people can, and the programmes that pay for them are straining. In a single week, the three biggest went three different ways. Microsoft paid out a record sum. Apple slammed the door on how many bugs a r…

LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.
LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.

LegaBot launches on Saturday with the first football league operated entirely by AI agents, running 24 hours a day with no predetermined outcomes. The inaugural season features 20 original city-based clubs, including New York Nythrix, Paris Luxe, Berli…

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited
Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the “epicenter of AI development,” has ordered a pause on new data-ce…

Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs ‘because they are the best’ — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’
A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close watching. Jeff Schmid said there were signs the industr…

Silicon Valley’s Other China Problem: It’s Training Their AI

The same Silicon Valley startups supplying OpenAI, Anthropic and the U.S. government are also selling AI training datasets to Chinese labs building rival models.

Neuraspace lands €15.6M to expand AI space intelligence platform

Portuguesespace technology company Neuraspace has secured €15.6 million in new financingto expand its AI-enabled Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space TrafficManagement (STM) capabilities. The financ…

AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat
AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat

AMD has had its best quarter yet, as the chipmaker reported record revenue of $11.5bn for the second quarter, up 50% on a year earlier, as demand for AI hardware kept climbing. The engine was the data centre which brought in $6.7bn, more than double la…

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban
Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on people’s behalf. The…