Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.
The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle…
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Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed
Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic…
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Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended
Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held…
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Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.
Starbucks told NomadGo on 3 April that it was scrapping the AI inventory tool the Redmond startup had built for it.…
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AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.
AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited.…
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The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath
A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw…
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Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.
ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The…
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The Italian state just backed €500m for the company that owns AOL
Bending Spoons has agreed a €500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italy’s…
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Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest
Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health…
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Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there
Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week, a day apart and at opposite ends of the market. Radisson Hotel Group…
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A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%
Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that…
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Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.
Cover Genius has acquired Friendsurance, the Berlin company that invented peer-to-peer insurance. The deal took effect…
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Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’
Coforge reported first quarter revenue of $592.2m on Monday. That is a rise of 33% in dollar terms over the year, and…
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Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue
Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier,…
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X Money can cut off your account over what you post
X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account.…
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A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking
A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone…
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Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.
Apple is preparing a push into the smart home with a new Apple TV 4K, an updated HomePod mini, and a hub device built…
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Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s…
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Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.
Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg…
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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…
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Ofcom has never blocked an Openreach offer before. It just moved to block this one.
Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever…
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An AI correction is now a top global credit risk, Fitch says
Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the market’s quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible…
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Core Scientific pivots to AMD with 2.5GW AI data-centre pact months after CoreWeave deal collapsed
Nine months after its own shareholders torpedoed a roughly $9bn takeover by CoreWeave, Core Scientific has found a far…
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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…
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Mate Security Crosses $50M in Funding as AI Security Operations Startup Heads to Black Hat USA
Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that many security operations centers were never designed…
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Dwelly raises $170M to turn UK lettings agencies into software
The London startup is buying independent lettings firms and folding them onto an AI platform, with EQT Growth leading…
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Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab
New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into…
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AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons
AI did not make buyers easier to reach. It made everyone cheaper to interrupt. A modern AI sales agent can research a…
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New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback
A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone…
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Apple’s incoming CEO wants to build on the company’s film and TV run
John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September,…
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China’s homegrown DUV chip tool now has a name: Shanghai Aishengna
The state-owned company at the centre of China’s newest chipmaking push finally has a name. Reuters reported on Tuesday…
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Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country…
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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…
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Orange raises full-year targets on Spain deal and Africa growth
Orange raised its full-year financial targets on Tuesday, after posting record first-half growth and, for the first…
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China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
China’s commerce ministry accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” on Monday and warned that it would retaliate, an…
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Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports
For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed…
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