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The International Energy Agency forecasts US spending on coal and gas power plants will hit $50 billion this year, driven by surging electricity demand from data centers and AI infrastructure. Final Investment Decisions …
Anthropic restored its Fable 5 AI model globally on July 1 after the US government lifted export controls that had suspended access on June 12. The controls were triggered by a reported jailbreak, which Anthropic later f…
Newly appointed Prime Minister Han Seong-sook vowed to fast-track South Korea's artificial intelligence push on her first day in office, aiming to position the country as a leader in the AI era. She pledged bolder invest…
Newly appointed South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook vowed on her first day to accelerate AI investment and deregulate advanced industries, aligning with the government's 800 trillion won semiconductor mega-project…
A writer outlines four phases of caring about existential risk (x-risk), from initial skepticism to active contribution, arguing that the main challenge is overcoming human difficulty in engaging with abstract problems. …
The UK government is considering intervening in Paramount Skydance Corporation's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing concerns that the merger would bring HBO Max, CNN, Channel 5, and other…
Time, The Economist, and other major news publishers are re-engineering their websites for AI agents by creating markdown versions of content and implementing bot whitelists. Time is converting all webpages to markdown t…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business beyond a single format, with job listings indicating plans for text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ads. The company is hiring software engineers to bui…
Hong Kong's tech chief Sun Dong warned that artificial intelligence will trigger the 'greatest industrial revolution,' surpassing all previous ones, and will significantly impact graduates and workers in traditional sect…
A new subsea cable for Amazon Web Services in County Cork highlights Ireland's AI ambitions but exposes its weak defenses, as the neutral state with minimal military spending struggles to protect critical infrastructure …
Researchers introduced AgentBound, a runtime governance framework that provides verifiable behavioral oversight for autonomous AI agents by evaluating actions through three independent authorities and generating cryptogr…
Steve Rigby argues that incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has a chance to restore business confidence by focusing on AI, devolution, and regional development, drawing on his successful record as Mayor of Greater Ma…
Ireland's upcoming EU presidency is compromised by its deep ties to big tech, with the Irish state and economy captured by companies like Google, Meta, and Apple. The country's data protection commission has failed to co…
Dr. Sergey Lagodinsky, Vice Chair of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, warns that Europe is becoming a digital colony between US and Chinese AI empires. He calls for an emergency summit with leading Europe…
The US Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, restoring foreign access starting July 2. Acting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated the move strengthens Am…
Seoul stocks erased early gains and fell 3.21% late Wednesday morning as investors sold off semiconductors and large-cap tech shares, driven by BlackRock's downgrade of emerging-market equities over AI concentration risk…
Brookfield Asset Management said India's data-center expansion, driven by AI application growth, presents a major renewable-energy investment opportunity. The firm, already a top India infrastructure investor with $30 bi…
AWS announced that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 models will be available on Amazon Bedrock starting tomorrow with enhanced guardrails to prevent misuse. The release follows collaboration with Anthropic and industry partner…
The US government lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models on June 30, after imposing them on June 12 due to a reported jailbreak. Fable 5 will be available globally starting July 1, while…
Japan approved a new industrial strategy allocating 100 billion yen to rebuild its ship repair capacity, aiming to reduce dependence on China which handles 60% of global ship repairs and most of Japan's vessel maintenanc…