US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme
US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme

The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The other firms that are affected are Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, …

Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist

Europe’s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going…

Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years
Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years

Quantum computing, healthcare and energy security are the fields Nvidia wants to strengthen with commitments it values at $1 billion. The money will be spread over the next five years. The company announced the commitments on Thursday at the Science: A…

CrowdStrike links South Korean bank breaches to AI tools and a China suspect
CrowdStrike links South Korean bank breaches to AI tools and a China suspect

The person behind a wave of cyberattacks on South Korean banks may be a 26-year-old living in China’s Guangdong province, US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says. The suspect has not been named or charged, and South Korean authorities have not identifie…

Swiss prosecutors investigate data leak at federal pension fund Publica
Swiss prosecutors investigate data leak at federal pension fund Publica

Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the suppl…

Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail
Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail

Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content. The main probl…

AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself
AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself

AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator. The European Commission has been able to inspect models,…

Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models
Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models

Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone…

Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year
Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year

Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the company’s IPO prospectus. Reuters reported the figure on Tuesday after seeing the filing, which has not been made public. Most of th…

Sam Altman says OpenAI will disclose more incidents of rogue AI models
Sam Altman says OpenAI will disclose more incidents of rogue AI models

OpenAI is preparing to disclose more incidents in which its AI models acted without permission, chief executive Sam Altman said. None of them is as serious as the cases already made public, he added. Sam Altman made the comments on the first episode of…