Danish startup Good Tape launches ‘Names’ campaign honouring journos killed in the line of duty

Good Tape, the Copenhagen-based creator of the novel security-first AI-powered transcription tool, has announced today the launch of its global initiative Names. The Names campaign signifies Good Tap…

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments of stress: They made tea. That wave of electric kettles clicking on, however, caused a different…

France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service
France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sovereign conversational assistant intended for every publi…

Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents
Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents

Alibaba has revealed its first suite of AI models for robots, a move that says as much about where Chinese technology is heading as about the models themselves. The launch came as the industry pivots away from chatbots and towards agents, the systems m…

Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing
Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Priv…

IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy
IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy

IMEC, the Belgian semiconductor research institute that partners with more than 600 chip industry players, has expanded its 300mm RF silicon interposer platform with three new manufacturing capabilities that bring 6G chip production closer to commercia…

AI as a dating wingman is a hot trend, but study says it’s just sabotaging your love life

A new study finds that using AI to write dating app messages creates a damaging gap between your online persona and your real-life self.

Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most
Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most

Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gai…

The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months
The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months…

Musk’s trade secret case against OpenAI is dead, and this time it’s permanent
Musk’s trade secret case against OpenAI is dead, and this time it’s permanent

A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case with prejudice on Monday, meaning xAI cannot bring the same claims again. Lin said…