UK MP asks High Court to force xAI to stop Grok making sexualised images of her
UK MP asks High Court to force xAI to stop Grok making sexualised images of her

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk’s xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answ…

Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre
Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre

Meta has folded its half-built El Paso data centre into a joint venture with BlackRock, formalising a structure that keeps most of a $14bn project off its own books. Under the agreement, funds managed by BlackRock will own 80% of the Texas campus and M…

Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker
Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker

Taiwan’s investigation into smuggled AI hardware, which began with Super Micro and had spent months working through the island’s distributors, has now reached inside Nvidia itself. On July 28, prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee as part of the prob…

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chai…

Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that So…

Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.

Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. “I made myself get addicted to …

Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line
Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line

Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments u…

DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral
DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective back…

Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility fro…

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable …