World Bank raises Africa's 2026 growth forecast, urges AI investments
The World Bank has raised Africa's 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.3%, citing stronger performance across the region, and urged governments to embrace
October 06, 2026The World Bank has raised Africa's 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.3%, citing stronger performance across the region, and urged governments to embrace
October 06, 2026AMD plans to substantially increase chip supply in 2027 as the US chipmaker races to meet booming demand from artificial intelligence, CEO Lisa Su said on
October 06, 2026OpenAI and Anthropic told Australian parliament on Tuesday they would welcome laws requiring them to report data breaches carried out by their AI agents,
October 06, 2026Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in
October 06, 2026Conservation group The Wilderness Society on Monday called for a moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers on federal lands, citing concerns over water use, electricity
October 06, 2026Artificial intelligence insiders are warning New York City’s leaders about dangers of the emerging technology, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting safety concerns
October 06, 2026AstraZeneca said on Monday it would spend more than $1 billion in Massachusetts as part of its broader $50 billion US investment plan, a move expected to expand its workforce in the
October 05, 2026The lengthy campaigns to protect kids on social media offer some lessons for those looking to protect children using artificial intelligence
October 02, 2026Hollywood turns on big tech — at least on screen
October 05, 2026Anthropic expected to IPO despite market uncertainty, AI slowdown calls
October 05, 2026France's Schneider Electric struck its biggest deal ever on Monday, agreeing to buy US software company PTC for around $22.6
October 05, 2026Rising political opposition to US data centers has limited near-term impact on their rapid expansion, Goldman Sachs said, with its growth outlook through 2027 remaining largely
October 05, 2026China's Huawei Technologies said on Monday it had agreed a broad multi-year patent licence deal with Qualcomm covering artificial intelligence, 5G, computing and networking
October 05, 2026On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging global organization controlled by World War II powers
October 05, 2026Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at a New York City hearing on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
October 05, 2026SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following US President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead
October 04, 2026Trump announces leadership of AI task force
October 04, 2026President Donald Trump has tapped his director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence
October 04, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton the administration's AI czar, tasking him with coordinating the federal
October 04, 2026Bull, the state-owned French maker of Europe's fastest supercomputers, reopened an expanded factory on Thursday to double its production capacity, executives told
October 02, 2026Global M&A activity in the third quarter totalled $993 billion, down 41% compared to the prior quarter, marking the first quarter to
October 02, 2026Singapore's Temasek is not worried about the massive levels of
October 01, 2026Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic exec to get information about AI
October 01, 2026UVM researchers developing AI 'digital twins' to help personalize ICU care
October 01, 2026San Francisco-based semiconductor startup Volantis on Thursday said it has raised $88 million in venture capital in an effort to solve a key
October 01, 2026Tech nonprofit faces 156% rent hike as AI fuels office demand
October 01, 2026The architecture of automated license plate readers turns local cameras into a far-reaching surveillance network that can be accessed by agencies that never purchased the devices.
October 01, 2026Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
September 30, 2026Tencent signed its largest overseas lease deal with US cloud provider Oracle to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China, the Financial Times
October 01, 2026‘Trump, Trump, Trump,’ Democrats’ hold on California and other takeaways from the governor debate
October 01, 2026South Korea's exports jumped 83.5% in September from a year earlier to a record $120.9 billion, government data showed on Thursday, as semiconductor shipments
October 01, 2026California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws aimed at protecting workers from the risks of artificial intelligence
October 01, 2026By Anhata Rooprai and Max A.
October 01, 2026Hegseth announces new autonomous weapons command while repeating attacks on ‘woke’ culture during speech to troops
October 01, 2026Alphabet's Google on Wednesday announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models in a fresh bid to
October 01, 2026Synopsys, a maker of software used in designing computing chips, said on Wednesday that it has struck a deal to share revenue with OpenAI as the
October 01, 2026Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history.
October 01, 2026The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users,
September 30, 2026ElevenLabs said on Wednesday it had completed a $300 million employee tender offer valuing the AI voice generation startup at $22 billion, twice the valuation it secured in its
September 30, 2026The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to
September 30, 2026The artificial intelligence boom has arrived in the riskiest corners of US credit markets, where leery lenders are demanding more compensation
September 30, 2026The U.S. economy grew at a solid 2.2% pace from April through June as consumer spending and business investment came in strong
September 30, 2026BMW is holding a two-day capital markets event to brief investors about the premium carmaker's strategy, the first for new CEO Milan Nedeljkovic, who took over in May.
September 30, 2026People might feel more comfortable making mistakes if they’re interacting with AI chatbots. But they will miss the nuances that come from conversing with real people.
September 30, 2026AI use and student enrollments increase at Kulia Academy after relying on donors for programs
September 30, 2026Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin donates $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon as part of his bet on Florida
September 30, 2026The Right Livelihood Award has been given to two women and two women-led organizations to recognize work against authoritarianism, violence and AI-related harms
September 30, 2026President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier
September 30, 2026OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has introduced a new AI agent called Dot, described as “remarkably capable, always-on.”
September 30, 2026President Donald Trump says that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House
September 29, 2026A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.
September 30, 2026Australia's corporate regulator said on Wednesday it would formally review the country's banking sector's usage of AI in dealing with customers.
September 30, 2026US President Donald Trump said he signed an artificial intelligence-related document on Tuesday with top tech executives in Washington.
September 30, 2026AI lab Anthropic, the developer of Claude, is planning one of the biggest IPOs in history as a public benefit corporation, a legal structure that
September 30, 2026US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said tech executives agreed to establish voluntary standards for AI and reiterated his support
September 29, 2026OpenAI aims to raise at least $30 billion in a funding round and is seeking a valuation of about $1.4 trillion, not including the money raised, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday,
September 30, 2026Developing nations are demanding a greater role in shaping the rules governing artificial intelligence, warning that a technology poised to
September 30, 2026OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled always-on agents called dots that chase user goals across apps on their own, deepening its push into
September 29, 2026Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Tuesday made a renewed case for further interest rate hikes, noting that high energy prices and a surge in AI-related
September 29, 2026Anthropic could face legal claims from customers and users over the actions of rogue artificial intelligence agents, though the legal framework is
September 29, 2026At a time when the fight for gender equality is facing a backlash, pressure is mounting for the next leader of the United Nations to be the first woman in its more than 80-year history
September 30, 2026The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America
September 29, 2026What to know about America.gov, the Trump administration’s new AI-driven services website
September 30, 2026Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system after "humbling" lessons from vulnerabilities exposed by AI models, as the payments giant
September 29, 2026Anthropic is betting that AI will reshape the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
September 29, 2026Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing: report
September 29, 2026AI could force 11 million US workers into new careers by 2035
September 29, 2026Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous
September 29, 2026Ukraine’s air force says Russia has fired ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones at Kyiv
September 29, 2026The benchmark S&P 500 was flat on Tuesday, as rising
September 29, 2026Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House
September 29, 2026Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company.
September 29, 2026China's foreign exchange regulator said on Tuesday it expects the country's trade in goods and services to keep growing, and cross-border investment to remain
September 29, 2026Alphabet's Google has challenged two EU orders to help AI rivals such as OpenAI access its services and search engine competitors to access its search
September 29, 2026Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary
September 29, 2026Pope Leo XIV says concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously
September 29, 2026OpenAI says it is delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company’s effort to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance
September 29, 2026Pope Leo on Monday said concerns that artificial intelligence could destroy the world are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously,
September 29, 2026Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed AI infrastructure agreements with Facebook parent Meta Platforms for graphics processing unit compute capacity at its data centre
September 29, 2026Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup, World Labs, in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion, a move that would give the chipmaker a
September 29, 2026Anthropic's IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, reveals its board and key executives at the helm of the AI giant, as it moves to beat its arch rival OpenAI to go public.
September 29, 2026OpenAI has scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, after internal testing found the system did not meet the company's safety
September 29, 2026Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO
September 29, 2026Nvidia boosted its share buyback authorization by a record $150 billion, eclipsing Apple's $110 billion approval in 2024, making a big bet on its own stock as
September 28, 2026Anthropic will not appear before an Australian senate committee hearing on AI on October 1, a source familiar with the matter said, days after a disclosure that an
September 28, 2026By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON, Sept 28 - President Donald Trump's meeting with tech CEOs on artificial intelligence on Tuesday will focus on finding a balance between innovation and oversight, House
September 28, 2026Florida's attorney general asked a judge on Monday to bar OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without outside oversight as part of its
September 28, 2026Nvidia’s board has cleared the way for the company to spend $150 billion more in share buybacks as the chipmaking giant looks to make use of more of its stellar revenue growth fueled by demand for its high-end artificial intelligence chips
September 28, 2026By Max A.
September 28, 2026What have we learned about Pope Leo during his visit to France
September 28, 2026Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
September 28, 2026All the training data in the world can’t account for every possibility when AI systems interact with people and the environment.
September 28, 2026An AI Force would likely push China to create its own. That arms race could turn a technology already slipping out of human control into a weapon.
September 28, 2026AI agents promise to do everything for you. There may be a big wrinkle in that plan
September 28, 2026Why the AI boom makes inflation harder to tame
September 28, 2026Parents confront a new fear: Could AI end humanity before their kids grow up?
September 28, 2026The recent pullback in the global AI trade has improved investor positioning, made valuations attractive and could spur a re-engagement, particularly in semiconductor stocks, J.P.
September 28, 2026Nvidia on Monday made available a set of software safety tools for AI agents that it says would have stopped the hack of Hugging Face, the AI
September 28, 2026President Donald Trump had plans to dine late Sunday with the CEO of Anthropic
September 28, 2026US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night,
September 27, 2026Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores
September 28, 2026OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a lack of control
September 27, 2026China and the U.S. have agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications
September 26, 2026China’s vice president has unfurled the nation’s familiar list of global talking points at the U.N. He emphasized development, issued mild statements about the U.S. war with Iran, artificial intelligence and protectionism and made no direct mention of self-ruled Taiwan
September 26, 2026Rogue OpenAI agents targeted three separate US government websites
September 26, 2026Crowds stretched the length of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday, as Pope Leo urged Catholics to find happiness in
September 26, 2026OpenAI has disclosed its artificial intelligence models have interacted with U.S. government websites in unexpected ways
September 26, 2026Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.N. General Assembly’s leader and health officials are seeking to make sure that the lurking possibility of another worldwide disease emergency stays on the global agenda
September 26, 2026Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still
September 26, 2026Campaign advertisements that use AI to attack rival candidates are not uncommon in the 2026 midterms, some more obviously fake than others
September 26, 2026President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping drank tea at the White House and visited the National Archives on Friday,
September 25, 2026Pope Leo XIV has warned that a “paradise of machines” could undermine humanity
September 25, 2026Chipmaker SK Hynix's Solidigm is considering an initial public offering as early as next year that could value the US subsidiary at up to $
September 25, 2026US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Friday he would resist describing AI agents as autonomous actors that "break loose" with "wills
September 25, 2026Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and the co-founder of technology company Palantir, said on Friday that efforts by some leading artificial intelligence
September 26, 2026An unregulated sector has risks in itself but will also aid the rapid advancement of AI in China.
September 26, 2026Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have wrapped up their Washington summit, focusing on personal rapport rather than substantial agreements
September 26, 2026The top executive of KoBold Metals said Western miners can match China's pace in developing critical
September 25, 2026A federal appeals court has rejected Anthropic's challenge to the Pentagon's labeling of it as a supply chain risk
September 25, 2026New orders for key US-manufactured capital goods increased more than expected in August and data for the prior month was revised sharply higher,
September 25, 2026Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid said that as the artificial intelligence boom unfolds it will be important for the Fed to understand if the
September 25, 2026Global equity funds attracted the most inflows since early July in the week to September 25, snapping a two-week selling streak as enthusiasm around artificial intelligence and a
September 25, 2026President Donald Trump is hailing the friendship he’s forged with Xi Jinping during the Chinese leader's highly anticipated state visit
September 24, 2026When Zhu Zhili was looking for a base to set up an artificial intelligence
September 25, 2026