The state-owned company at the centre of China’s newest chipmaking push finally has a name. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group, a little-known state-owned group, is leading the effort to mass-produce domesti…
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand is barely a fortnight old, and it has already met the most basic of objections: the electrici…
China’s commerce ministry accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” on Monday and warned that it would retaliate, an escalation in a quarrel that started with an accusation of copying and has since pulled in chips, sanctions, and a pair of senior Wh…
Microsoft’s new Project Perception uses AI agents to hunt down hackers before they strike, and it might change cybersecurity forever.
For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says …
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chai…
Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-w…
Meta is rolling out Meta AI to Threads direct messages globally starting today. All users can now share posts, images, links, and videos with Meta AI in a one-on-one conversation, ask follow-up questions, and explore topics privately. The feature mirro…
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that So…
The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token consumption or outcome-based pricing for AI features. The flat-rate subscriptions that attracted early adopters were loss leaders. Now tha…