The tech giant is reportedly using its own AI models for some AI prompts in its Excel and Outlook software.
Others, meanwhile, argue that the US has a moral obligation to build powerful autonomous weapons systems—lest our adversaries get there first.
Could the Trump Curse come for Claude?
Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted to freeze all new builds, the Guardian reports. The motion now […]
A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is installing RNGD servers at Equinix’s LS2 datacentre in Lisbon, it announced on Tuesday. The name […]
Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool launched as a desktop app in January and, from Tuesday, is rolling out in beta to Max subscribers first. The pitch is continuity across devices. Users can kick off a task at their desk, get status updates on […]
Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, its first image-generation AI model built under the Superintelligence Labs division led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. The model is rolling out inside the Meta AI chatbot and will be embedded across Instagram and WhatsApp. Users can generate images from text prompts or alter existing pictures. The most […]
Waymo’s robotaxis had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, snarled traffic for hours, and one drove over a lit firework and caught fire. Over the holiday weekend, driverless Waymo cars became the story instead of the technology. In San Francisco, dozens stalled in the gridlock after the Golden […]
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house MAI models where cost or data residency favours them. The change is incremental rather than a clean break. OpenAI and Anthropic still handle most production traffic inside Copilot, with MAI […]
In Beijing as in Washington, AI has become a critical—and jealously guarded—national resource.