Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot
Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot

Taiwan’s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island’s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank…

Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns
Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns

Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a ne…

Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds
Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds

Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child “relie…

Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code
Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code

Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change …

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO
RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Mid…

Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones
Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones

The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and…

“It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI
“It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI

Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audience at the Raise Summit in Paris this week, are the engine. Everything else, the vehicle, the streets, the rules that let t…

AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories
AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories

For years, electricity costs at the Belden Brick Company in Sugarcreek, Ohio, barely moved. Last year they jumped by 90%, driven largely by the data centres multiplying across the region to feed the AI boom. The 141-year-old manufacturer, whose bricks …

AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides
AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides

Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth years may already be gone for good. Christopher Pissari…

Synopsys pulls back from chip fab software to chase AI design margins
Synopsys pulls back from chip fab software to chase AI design margins

Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world’s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of AI chip des…