Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC
Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, release…

Aramco Digital teams up with OrbitronAI to build AI for heavy industry
Aramco Digital teams up with OrbitronAI to build AI for heavy industry

Aramco Digital, the tech arm of Saudi oil giant Aramco, has teamed up with start-up OrbitronAI to build and sell AI tools for heavy industry, the two firms said. The tools are aimed at oil and gas, power, mining, transport, and factory firms. They are …

Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn, WSJ reports
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn, WSJ reports

Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could come soon if …

AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says
AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says

Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public, Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. Both companies worry that the findings could expose trade secrets. Both l…

ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other AI platform, Semrush finds
ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other AI platform, Semrush finds

ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all …

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…

Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds
Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds

Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a survey published on Monday. Pax8 is a Denver-based marketplace. It sells AI …

UiPath’s Michael Atalla on AI slop, junior jobs and a Shaolin monk’s advice
UiPath’s Michael Atalla on AI slop, junior jobs and a Shaolin monk’s advice

UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead, chief marketing officer Michael Atalla told TNW. It collects the data, a…

Atlassian does not use Chinese AI models in production, its CEO says
Atlassian does not use Chinese AI models in production, its CEO says

Atlassian does not run any Chinese AI models in its products, chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an interview with 20VC, the podcast hosted by investor Harry Stebbings. The episode came out on Monday and was recorded in Amsterdam, where Atlass…

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…