China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you
China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

  For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant wit…

Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.
Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.

Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Forc…

Wowed by computer-use AI agents? Research says they’re “digital disasters” even for routine tasks

New research from UC Riverside found computer-use AI agents often push ahead with unsafe or irrational tasks, raising questions about whether today’s desktop agents are ready for sensitive everyday workflows.

AI shouldn’t make decisions for you, but this one will tell when you’re making a bad one

A new AI tool from Cornell researchers helps you make better decisions by spotting contradictions between your stated values and actual choices.

Musk’s Colossus 1 AI supercomputer’s inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn’t be used to train Grok, so Anthropic’s using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO

Anthropic has leased xAI’s entire 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 supercluster from SpaceX to ease Claude’s growing compute bottlenecks, in a deal that may reveal far bigger ambitions around AI infrastructure, orbital data centers,…

Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by E…

How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or…

Euan Blair’s Multiverse raises $70M at $2.1BN valuation

Euan Blair’s Multiverse has raised £70m in fresh funding, as it looks to expand across Europe and take a chunk of the enterprise AI training market.The funding round in the edtech, which originally sp…

Netflix has its own AI studio now, and AI-generated content is coming for your feed whether you like it or not

Netflix has been secretly building an AI animation studio called INKubator to produce animated shorts and specials using generative AI tools.

Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.
Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In…