Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports
Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports

Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six …

Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Zi…

Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6
Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6

Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes…

Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs
Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs

Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief …

Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded
Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded

Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human? The address was the centrepiece of a day UNESCO had dedicated to artific…

Palo Alto’s Nikesh Arora tells CNBC that slowing AI down is ‘unrealistic’
Palo Alto’s Nikesh Arora tells CNBC that slowing AI down is ‘unrealistic’

Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is “unrealistic” to slow down AI development, because “not everybody is going to pace themselves”. He made the comments on CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC’s Arjun Kha…

Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent
Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nad…

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official…

Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment
Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment

Prince Harry has warned that AI companion chatbots are repeating social media’s harm to children, with technology that is “more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful”. He spoke on Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Two years…

Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI
Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would also pause work on the most advanced AI. And it would create a Departm…