Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His co…

Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure

Mozilla’s latest State of Open Source AI report argues that open-source and open-weight AI have moved beyond experimentation and become a significant part of the global AI ecosystem, driven by rapidly…

AI developer vibe codes DLSS 5 onto Intel CPU’s integrated graphics — Intel Arc 140T runs neural rendering in 360p at 10 frames per second
AI developer vibe codes DLSS 5 onto Intel CPU’s integrated graphics — Intel Arc 140T runs neural rendering in 360p at 10 frames per second

Using AI tools, a new developer has managed to get DLSS 5 neural rendering running on Intel Lunar Lake’s integrated Arc graphics, albeit with abysmal performance.

Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035
Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035

“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is…

Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit

The NYT filed a legal brief revealing potentially damaging statements from Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the copyright infringement case it brought against the two companies. The publication is now seeking a summary judgment from the court, almost three years since it started the case.

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argu…

Oracle got AI working on itself only this year
Oracle got AI working on itself only this year

Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, “I …

US frontier AI companies warn authorities over sophisticated distillation attacks — China warns of ‘countermeasures’ if America tries to constrain domestic AI models

U.S. AI companies and the government are increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of international competition using distillation attacks to glean valuable data from frontier models to train cheaper, faster alternatives overseas.

‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligenc…

Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operation…