PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada
PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada

PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha in whic…

Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI
Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI

Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US …

OpenAI is putting ads inside ChatGPT’s image generation
OpenAI is putting ads inside ChatGPT’s image generation

OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPT’s design…

Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms
Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms

Norway’s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge. The ban could cover places where the public often …

Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets at night
Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets at night

Elon Musk said Tesla’s robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austin’s hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles v…

China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine
China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine

China’s industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATL’s chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProL…

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be “super dangerous”
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be “super dangerous”

Masayoshi Son, who has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and calls bubble talk absurd, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in the wrong hands could become super dangerous and that countries must cooperate to control it. He spoke beside Michael Kratsios, who lau…

Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force
Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force

Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took…

Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in …

US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on We…