A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking
A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice A…

Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.
Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.

Apple is preparing a push into the smart home with a new Apple TV 4K, an updated HomePod mini, and a hub device built around its rebuilt Siri, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Tuesday. The hardware for the first two has reportedly been finished for …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.

Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.
Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two jurisdictions declined to back them. Federal, state and …

Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.
Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.

Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg reported, accelerating a pattern of investment that critics say inflates demand and valuations across the sector. The response from the de…

An AI correction is now a top global credit risk, Fitch says
An AI correction is now a top global credit risk, Fitch says

Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the market’s quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible AI market correction is now emerging as one of the biggest credit risks facing the global economy. The judgement comes in the agency’s…

Core Scientific pivots to AMD with 2.5GW AI data-centre pact months after CoreWeave deal collapsed
Core Scientific pivots to AMD with 2.5GW AI data-centre pact months after CoreWeave deal collapsed

Nine months after its own shareholders torpedoed a roughly $9bn takeover by CoreWeave, Core Scientific has found a far larger partner in the chipmaker trying to loosen Nvidia’s grip on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday the former bitcoin miner said i…

Greyparrot secures $27M Series B to scale AI waste intelligence for the circular economy

London-based AIwaste intelligence company Greyparrot has raised $27 million in Series Bfunding, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The round was led bytechnology investor Omar Mir and comes af…

Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab
Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab

New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into production, and the spend behind them isn’t disappearing, it’s just sitting in limbo. Jon Bitz, chief relationship officer and co-foun…

AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons
AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons

AI did not make buyers easier to reach. It made everyone cheaper to interrupt. A modern AI sales agent can research a company, identify a plausible buying signal, compose a personalised email, schedule follow-ups, evaluate the response, and hand a qual…