Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a secondary Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, above the $3bn floated in April, according to Bloomberg. The com…
Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model billed as the largest ever, helped trigger a global tech and semiconductor selloff on Friday, reviving comparisons to the DeepSeek sho…
Ace, a browser that calls itself 'the helpful browser,' is building AI directly into its software to help users manage online tasks like summarizing articles, comparing information across tabs, and dr…
BrainCo, a Chinese neurotechnology company, debuted its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is the world's first integrated brain-to-robot system. Th…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $20 million funding round for Runta, a startup that helps businesses 'parent' AI agents by wrapping them in isolated environments and guardrails to prevent damage, val…
A new study from the Oversight Board, an independent body funded by Meta, found that top AI models refuse political speech requests about repressive governments at more than twice the rate as requests…
The chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic have each published memos agreeing that frontier AI models need independent pre-release testing and a single US-led regulatory body, marking a rare…
Meta will alert parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot, starting in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. The alerts, reviewed by a person before sending, include …
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said at a London business conference that a STEM degree makes people 10 times more effective with AI tools, pushing back against the idea that coding degrees are b…
Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel works to anticipate the ethical fallout of AI, bridging the gap between AI safety and AI ethics. His 2020 paper on values and alignment argues that choosing w…
Google DeepMind has launched a bioresilience programme to use AI to prevent, detect and respond to biological threats, the London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs announced in a joint blog p…
Mick Jagger told Billboard that musicians are welcome to use artificial intelligence to create music as long as the output is original, but he opposes AI that imitates his voice or the Rolling Stones'…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on 16 July published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda that would compel landlords and brokers to disclose when a listing image has been digitally altered,…
SoftBank Group is reportedly preparing to raise up to $60bn in fresh debt to fund its swelling bet on OpenAI, a target that would eclipse any previous bond sale by the Japanese conglomerate. The plan …
Databricks has reached a $188bn valuation in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, surpassing the $175bn figure it was reportedly in talks to raise at weeks earlier. Coatue is investing roughl…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence "should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international coop…
A Chinese luggage maker's stock-exchange filing implies DeepSeek is valued at around $52bn, the most precise figure yet for the Hangzhou AI startup. Anhui Korrun's subsidiary Ningbo Purun took a 0.826…
Z.ai, the Chinese AI startup formerly known as Zhipu, is on track to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with about $1bn in annual sales, according to Bloomberg. The company is monetizing at …
Researchers from KAIST and Stanford University have unveiled SWAG (Self-Wearing Adaptive Garments), a clothing system that climbs onto its wearer using inflatable tubes that evert like vine robots, el…
Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of optical parts for AI data centers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The company, already listed in Shenzh…