A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.
A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of …

As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit
As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit

At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Reliance unveiled two things at once: paperwork for what could be India’s biggest-ever stock-market listing, and a plan to put a Starlink rival into orbit. Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukes…

Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips
Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips

To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make …

The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.
The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.

The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard …

AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.
AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.

For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget …

Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.
Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.

For two years, the people building AI told us it was coming for our jobs. This month, the same people started saying it will create them. Speaking in Paris, Jeff Bezos said AI would cause “a labour shortage”, not mass unemployment, and would unlock alm…

AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.
AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers …

The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.
The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.

Ask people around the world who is winning the AI race, and a surprising number now answer: China. In 11 of the 15 countries polled for a new report by the London consultancy Public First, a clear majority said they believe China is now ahead of the Un…

Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.
Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.

Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…

Adobe just made its biggest AI push yet, and it stretches from Photoshop to Disney World
Adobe just made its biggest AI push yet, and it stretches from Photoshop to Disney World

Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the…