Inside an American government data centre, a system called ImmigrationOS is assembling a stranger’s life. It reaches for a passport record, then a Social Security file, then a year of tax returns, then a licence-plate read captured by a motorway camera…
China’s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a ‘death zone’ for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too costly to match free Chinese models yet not good enough t…
One of the Chinese company’s top scientists has warned that Nvidia will soon run into the same physical limit on chip performance that Huawei says is reshaping the whole industry, according to Bloomberg. The argument is less a boast than a bet on where…
SoftBank’s AI bet meets its accountants this week. When the Japanese group reports earnings, the headline profit will look healthy, but the real story is the mountain of funding commitments Masayoshi Son has stacked behind OpenAI. Analysts expect net p…
The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America’s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was completed by its deadline, with talks on next steps now under…
People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A t…
Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind’s c…
Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once…
The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can…
A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The tim…