A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.
A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of …

Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips
Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips

To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make …

Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI
Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI

Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-…

Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.
Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.

For two years, the people building AI told us it was coming for our jobs. This month, the same people started saying it will create them. Speaking in Paris, Jeff Bezos said AI would cause “a labour shortage”, not mass unemployment, and would unlock alm…

AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.
AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers …

The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.
The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.

Ask people around the world who is winning the AI race, and a surprising number now answer: China. In 11 of the 15 countries polled for a new report by the London consultancy Public First, a clear majority said they believe China is now ahead of the Un…

Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.
Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.

Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…

A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules
A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules

Silicon Valley is spending more than $100mn to elect politicians who will leave AI alone. A new group of tech workers wants to fight back with a fraction of that. The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that supports AI regulation, launched on Thursday wi…

CEO of Chinese Anthropic rival tells Elon Musk that China will have a Fable 5-class AI model before next year — it ‘won’t take that long’ says Jie Tang in response to Musk’s prediction of a Q1 target

Elon Musk estimated that Chinese AI firms would have an LLM with Mythos level capability by the first quarter of 2027. However, the CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai responded to the comment, saying that their company will achieve…