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…
ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all …
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…
Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a survey published on Monday. Pax8 is a Denver-based marketplace. It sells AI …
Hackers linked to China broke into the network of a regional group based in Suva, Fiji, the US Embassy in Fiji said on Monday. They stayed inside for several days in July and August. The embassy, which also covers Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu, did not n…
Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more in the US open-weight model developer, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. The talks are at a…
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake. An…
The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian. “Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact o…
A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as …
An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary re…