Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment. Every…

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…

What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI. Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk predicted…

Journalist and author Cory Doctorow is coming to Australia to spread his message – humans will take their jobs back. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates. Get…

Whitehall wants to triple their number in the UK. Yet in Slough, I saw the impact they’re having on communities. Amid headlines about the UK’s drought , Europe’s wildfires and…

Manny Rutinel’s House campaign draws millions from big tech as pro- and anti-AI factions spar over regulation. Political groups funded by top tech executives have been homing in…

Report finds widespread overbidding as rapid AI growth generates increased wealth in city where housing is scarce. San Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented…

Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, or the moment machines begin accelerating their own evolution.…

Minnesota has a new law taking effect Saturday to ban AI apps that allow for "nudification." Elon Musk's AI company is suing to block it, saying it violates free speech, noting…

Bayreuth festival theatre, Bayreuth For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present –…

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented

Are AI recruitment tools disadvantaging women who are seeking to return to the workplace?

New AI models, advanced robots and specialty computer chips are unsettling markets and the US tech industry. Over the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial…

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Bloomberg AI infrastructure reporter Dina Bass about concerns over circular financing in the AI sector

Two independent testing firms said Tuesday that they've uncovered more instances where Anthropic's and OpenAI's most advanced models tried — and sometimes succeeded in —…

Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over. When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal…

A Trump administration framework on AI testing leaves a lack of transparency – and plenty of open questions. After months of talking with tech industry leaders, the Trump…

On their first earnings call since SpaceX's June public offering, executives said the company is pouring funds into rocket development, Starlink satellites and AI

Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce. Children in the UK have reported a…

AI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry

What was the thinking of the investors backing the now-canned plan, and are such proposals in the future inevitable?

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

S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago. The US stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as…

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence.…

Meta announced one of its models had hacked another company during a security test. It becomes the third company to announced such a security breach

Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks. OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence…

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

If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that?. On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called…

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

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Punchbowl News tech reporter Diego Munhoz about President Trump's request for AI companies to share models with the government before their public…

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

The slightest hint of generative AI usage is fast becoming a kiss of death in creative circles. Why it matters: It's turning into a purity test that has the potential to blow up…

Investors scramble to make sense of a shock Chinese challenge to the dominance of western chipmakers. Even for the rollercoaster world of AI, last week was particularly volatile…

Finance sector will gain from the tech but it will need substantial investment and create risks, says rating agency. The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is…

Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns

Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity…

OpenAI agreed Tuesday to pay $3.2 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it discriminated against U.S. workers by favoring temporary visa holders for jobs,…

Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions. Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence…

Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign…

Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay. In March, Anthropic, the cutting-edge artificial…

A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences

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%

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

A powerful AI agent created fake online identities in an effort to trick a human into giving it access to a popular online development platform – and sabotage it with malicious…

The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models — but it won't say what the framework contains, who's seen…

As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China

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

The share of business students regularly using AI has increased from 6.2% to 29% over the past three years, according to research from American University's Kogod School of…

Data: NCSL ; Map: Sara Wise/Axios. Americans across the country could have very different experiences with AI deepfakes leading up to Election Day , thanks to a patchwork of state…

A Stanford-led research team has used generative AI to design a synthetic virus — the first time artificial intelligence has been harnessed to create an organism that has never…

Buyers of AI services are struggling to control costs and sellers are not sure how much to charge

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

NPR's science podcast rounds up new studies about a wandering black hole, humans' ability to detect AI-generated text, and the impact of cougars on vehicle-deer collisions

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

Faced with a barrage of ads, misinformation, AI slop, toxicity and doom-scrolling, it can feel like the internet is kind of. broken. Is it? And what are the alternatives?

Data: FactSet; Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios. Who cares about war, oil prices, interest rates or an AI bubble? Investors apparently do not — for now at least — sending stocks back to…

Silicon Valley's AI moguls are flooding Washington with competing blueprints for superintelligence, clashing over a defining question: Does safety come from spreading powerful AI…

What do we need to know about agentic AI?