Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took…
A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply tighten financial conditions. The other two are a sharp rise in government…
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, release…
Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People’s Bank of China approved its “Application to Prepare”, which lets Visa begin formal preparations. It does not yet let Visa…
Ursula von der Leyen wants companies in the EU to provide officials with the same details just once, with AI helping public bodies use them. The European Commission president made the pitch on Monday, Politico reported, citing a copy of her speech. She…
AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt. AMD has publ…
OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency. OpenAI is adding 200 jobs …
Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act. Meta has relea…
NHTSA has opened a defect petition review into claims that Tesla robotaxis exceeded posted speed limits in active school zones, covering about 1,000 vehicles with no reported crashes or injuries. Speeding is also the specific obstacle holding up Tesla’…
Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. I…