President lays out red carpet as treasury secretary announces extension of ‘Busan agreement’ pausing trade war hostilities. AI, trade, Taiwan and climate: what will and won’t be…

Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly. I’m sitting in a small boat in Shark Bay, Australia,…

Universities need to protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment. AI companies like OpenAI are insinuating themselves into the…

OpenAI's autonomous agents breached an Australian Medicare portal and probed other public data sites in May and June after being stymied in routine data-collection efforts. Why it…

OpenAI on Monday released international AI safety standards as world leaders, namely the U.S. and China, weigh how to mitigate risk. Why it matters: The U.S. approach to…

The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation. Tributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton…

The race for AI supremacy between labs, companies and countries may be impossible to reconcile with the push for AI safety, industry insiders tell Axios. Why it matters: The top…

Meta on Wednesday debuted "Muse Charm," a new, keychain-sized AI handheld device it will use to bring its viral Muse assistant to the masses. Why it matters: Meta's has raced…

President Trump has proposed creating an AI task force, similar to Space Force. But he has offered no other details about what it would look like. Tech industry experts are…

US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity. The US vice-president has dismissed calls for global regulation…

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting. Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a presumptive presidential candidate, is getting louder on AI, releasing an executive order amid the Washington stalemate. Why it matters: Democrats…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he doesn't believe President Trump is "really dug in" against guardrails for AI , despite Trump's public campaign against restricting the…

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach. Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed…

The Nvidia CEO is a relentless AI optimist with the president's ear. Stephen Witt, author of The Thinking Machine, tells NPR's Juana Summers how their relationship could shape the…

AI companies have competed on having the best and often most dangerous models for years. Now, they're pivoting to a new focus: cost. Why it matters: The biggest risk to the AI…

Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest…

President Trump's allies are targeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the face of AI "doomerism" and a founding father of the effective altruism movement that's come under…

Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’. Stop relying on AI chatbots for…

Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up

The US and China are vying for AI supremacy while seeking to keep it under human control

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much

In spite of growing calls for Congress to take action on AI, the House went home early and won't be back until after this November's midterm elections

The shift of the AI frontier toward more powerful, lower-cost models could pave the way for safely slowing development, experts say. Why it matters: Top U.S. startups including…

Venture-capital firms are bringing AI and dealmaking to accounting, property management and other unglamorous fields

Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar. Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior…

The U.S. is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks this weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios. Why it matters: The Trump administration has…

Open AI’s CEO has called for international coordination to address potential risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI)

Data: The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios. More than half of Americans are…

AI giant announces discovery amid global debate about how to safeguard against catastrophic risks

Some people close to the president have started to use the term but experts say it is unlikely to catch on

Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’. UK politics live – latest updates. Nick Clegg has dismissed fears…

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech. UK politics live – latest updates. Datacentre nimbys are holding…

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’. The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that…

President Trump announced Saturday he is creating an "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and will soon name a new AI czar, doubling down on his push to accelerate artificial…

The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks

The BBC visits Inner Mongolia, an unlikely frontier in Beijing's AI race with Washington

Trade, AI and security are on the agenda, but experts say rebuilding trust may take priority over major deals

A distinctly Cold War calculus is looming over this week's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, as the U.S. and China weigh an emergency "red phone" for the day AI goes haywire. Why it…

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee

OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank unveiled AI infrastructure plans at White House

The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence

Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines

Schools are struggling to keep up with the evolving world of AI as concerns among parents and advocates mount regarding the use of the technology in classrooms. The two largest…

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe. It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to…

Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us?.…

From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit. Before an Anthropic…

Google's Gemini AI model broke into three companies' systems using basic hacking techniques during model testing earlier this year. Why it matters: Google was one of the only AI…

Members of Congress and governors are under increasing pressure to regulate AI , but more than two dozen of them who spoke with Axios said they don't use the technology or have…

U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%

The US dominates AI spending and computing power, but China is ahead in research and closing the gap on advanced models

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips

The South Korean memory-chip maker reported record quarterly and annual results after stronger-than-expected earnings for the final quarter of 2024 on robust chip demand

In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings

An unprecedented wave of AI-powered, human-driven cyberattacks is coming, security experts say — and it's a far more urgent risk than theoretical scenarios in which AI wipes out…

AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried

Nearly half of young people trust artificial intelligence over a human to check a fact, according to a new report

Executives from leading artificial intelligence organizations urged global cooperation Wednesday to address risks from increasingly autonomous AI systems during a UN Security…

Of the various ways experts fear AI could kill us all , one is slowly moving closer to reality: AI learning to make itself unstoppable. Why it matters: Recursive self-improvement,…

The social-media giant plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, the latest sign of tech companies’ accelerating investments into artificial intelligence

More companies are tying career progression to AI use: is that fair?

Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm. At the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world’s…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is the latest prominent Democrat to back a pause on advanced artificial intelligence, her office told Axios exclusively. Why it matters: The idea…

Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable

The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life. Why it matters: For years,…

The left's push to rein in AI is taking shape on two fronts: slowing advanced development at home, and weakening China's progress abroad. Why it matters: The nation is locked in a…

President Trump's accelerationist AI doctrine increasingly bears the stamp of the "All-In" podcast, whose tech-investor network now feeds ideas and talent directly into the White…

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials, uploaded files to the public internet or communicated…

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The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act on Wednesday, marking Congress' most significant step yet to shield consumers from the soaring infrastructure costs of the…

A host of industry players, policy wonks and businesses are grappling with the question of how to regulate AI in a trustworthy manner. Inside the White House, it's mostly business…

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without using the most advanced chips

Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown

China is waging a much different war for AI supremacy than the U.S. Why it matters: China is obsessed with state control and adoption. Chinese officials are laser-focused on deep,…

Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?

China is competing with the United States and other nations to develop AI

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