Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake. An…
The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian. “Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact o…
SoftBank plans to buy companies that do not use AI or robotics, then apply new technologies to improve their operations and valuation.
Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, one of the three people charged of smuggling Super Micro servers with advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, has pleaded guilty, with sentencing set for September of next year.
The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White…
The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. “We shouldn’t depend solely on systems …
One focus of these contingency plans is how to manage Congress after a catastrophic event puts these labs in the spotlight.
Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe…
Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at General Atlantic, spoke on stage at Wave by Vento in Turi…
Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The ch…