Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change he casts as a promotion rather than a threat. “These agentic systems are […]
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Midway through a RAISE Summit fireside chat on open-source AI, the Master Stage lost […]
The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the conflict, according to Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots who spoke to Reuters. The tool they describe has a name. Ukrainian crews […]
Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audience at the Raise Summit in Paris this week, are the engine. Everything else, the vehicle, the streets, the rules that let the engine actually take you somewhere, is the part he is […]
For years, electricity costs at the Belden Brick Company in Sugarcreek, Ohio, barely moved. Last year they jumped by 90%, driven largely by the data centres multiplying across the region to feed the AI boom. The 141-year-old manufacturer, whose bricks feature in landmarks including the Alamo and the University of Notre Dame, traced most of […]
Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth years may already be gone for good. Christopher Pissarides, who shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics and teaches at the London School of Economics, […]
Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world’s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of AI chip design. The plan, reported by Reuters and attributed to six people briefed on the matter, is a pointed […]
Tencent is seeking up to $1.6bn by selling down its stake in short-video platform Kuaishou, Bloomberg reports. A term sheet seen by Reuters puts the block trade at up to $1.55bn. The deal covers about 273 million shares, a 7.5% stake, offered at HK$43.15 to HK$44.53 each. That represents a discount of 3.2% to 6.2% to Monday’s […]
The workers who build Samsung’s phones, televisions, and washing machines are about to make their unhappiness visible. Their union says several thousand of them will gather near the company’s Suwon headquarters on 16 July to protest the bonuses their colleagues in the chip division have won, a grievance that has been building since the semiconductor pay […]
The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerating faster than any government’s ability to understand, test, or regulate them. The warning arrives as delegates gather in Geneva for the opening of the […]
