Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions
Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions

JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. But investors hoping the technology will dramatica…

Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause
Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street’s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry …

Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on
Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on. Nscale’s £2bn Essex site has the money, the planning permission, and a grid connection, but no power arriving in time. Nscale has the cash, …

Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks
Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was …

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of…

Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess
Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess

Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem….

‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up
‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up

China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to…

The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI
The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI

One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. Richard Sutton shared the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack’s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab. H…

Why TensorX believes Europe’s AI race will be decided by who owns the GPUs

For the past two years, Europe’s AI debate has centred on foundation models, more recently expanding to questions of data ownership and intelligenceBut for Dublin-based TensorX, the next competitive b…

Samsung Health threatens to delete your data if you opt out of AI training

A new Samsung Health consent toggle gives users an ultimatum: agree to share sensitive health data for AI training or lose all their synced data permanently.