China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%
China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%

The gap between American and Chinese AI is closing fast. Chinese models narrowed the performance shortfall to a record-low 6% in June, down from 9% in May, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The research arm said the shift raises real questions about…

White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on Am…

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first Prime Video redesign, and studios may end up paying for it
Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first Prime Video redesign, and studios may end up paying for it

Jeff Bezos has found a new place to advertise Amazon’s artificial intelligence, and it happens to be the screen where you were hoping to watch a film. Amazon’s executive chairman is pushing a redesign of Prime Video, known internally as Lighthouse, mea…

kausable raises €12M to rethink how AI learns

AI systems need constant, costly retraining. European AI startup kausable raises €12 million in a seed funding round to solve this problem by developing reasoning-first frontier AI that adapts efficie…

Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge
Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge

Server processors were meant to be the boring corner of the AI boom. The exotic money went to graphics accelerators, while the central processing units sitting beside them were treated as a solved problem, cheap, plentiful, and interchangeable. That as…

Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them
Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them

Denis Machuel runs the world’s largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty…

Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%
Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%

Sundar Pichai spent Alphabet’s Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether t…

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way o…

telli secures $15M seed to automate customer-facing operations

Berlin-basedAI startup telli has raised $15 million in a seed funding round to expand itsAI platform for customer-facing operations. The round was led by redalpine,with participation from Mutschler, C…