US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to c…
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China. On the same day, the chief executive of the company that powers the entire AI boom went the other way. The threat Bessent said the US will scrutinise Chinese open…
The four companies announced the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades on Tuesday. The pitch is a labour shortage. The subtext is harder to miss. The number behind it Employers cannot find enough electricians, technicians, and builders. The alliance pu…
Samsung is reportedly weighing a bet on Europe’s best-funded AI startup. The South Korean conglomerate is in talks to invest in Mistral as part of a fundraising round that could value the Paris company at roughly €20bn, the Financial Times reported on …
Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noet…
Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assembling Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips. T…
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed. Th…
On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Globa…
Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eig…
Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency ov…