Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned aft…
Kanishka Narayan has been named as the minister for AI in the new UK prime minister’s government, in a role in which he will attend cabinet meetings. Narayan, previously a junior AI and online safety …
Samsung wants to build humanoid robots, but its new RX division is starting with practical factory machines while consumer models and robot butlers remain distant ambitions without a launch timeline.
IQE, the Cardiff-based maker of compound semiconductor wafers, expects revenue to grow by more than 20% in 2026, betting that surging AI data-centre demand for its light-carrying materials will pull it clear of a bruising year. The upgrade landed on 21…
You probably won’t notice the next Model Context Protocol update, but it could make AI assistants much better at connecting to the apps and services you use every day.
In a decisive move to protect viewer feeds and advertiser dollars, YouTube has updated its monetization guidelines to strip cash flow from low-quality, AI-generated material. The streaming giant is refining the rules governing its lucrative YouTube Par…
Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to explain why they chose one path over another, which becomes a problem when a split-second decision goes wrong. A team at Seoul …
Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequis…
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks …
Token amplification creates a paradox in the AI economy, as more capable models beget more complicated tasks.