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AI business news tracks how companies adopt artificial intelligence and how that changes products, competition and work. Follow enterprise deployments, partnerships, company strategy and the effects of AI on jobs and skills. Our reports separate announced ambitions from demonstrated results, with sources and context to help you judge where adoption is useful, costly or still unproven.
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Donald Trump has rejected international oversight of advanced AI as a “globalist scheme”, while OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei are due to brief the UN Security Council on AI and international security. The clash matters because the people building frontier systems are asking for…
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Microsoft says it will invest more than $10 billion in capital and operating expenses across the Middle East by 2030, with cloud and AI infrastructure at the centre of the plan. The commitment initially covers Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, tying a major technology…
MIT CSAIL Watch
MIT has appointed computer scientist and Two Sigma co-founder David Siegel as its next Innovation Fellow, giving him a year to explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery. The appointment matters because it places a technologist with experience in research, finance and AI infrastructure inside the university…
MLCommons Watch
MLCommons has joined a €16.9 million European research project to develop generative AI that models disease mechanisms, with the organisation responsible for building the benchmarks that may decide whether the system deserves anyone’s trust. AIRIS brings together 21 partners from Europe, Canada and the US for a four-year…
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Generative AI is making it easy for students to produce polished products before they have established that anyone wants them, argues entrepreneurship educator Steve Blank. His warning is not that students can build too much, but that a convincing demo can now arrive before the messy learning begins.
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Five UC Berkeley computer science graduate students have been named Siebel Scholars for 2027, receiving $35,000 each to pursue research spanning AI, robotics, security and machine-learning hardware. The useful detail is not simply that Berkeley has won another academic laurel. The awards are buying time for work aimed…
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Researchers have reported 104 public findings across 65 candidates in China’s Next-generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithms Program, including practical breaks in five designs. The early results suggest that the programme’s new algorithms need considerably more scrutiny before anyone treats them as ready-made security foundations.
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US Central Command has changed how it vets targets after a deadly school strike in Iran, with new open-source data feeds intended to track civilian movement more closely. Bloomberg reports that the command has also upgraded Palantir’s Maven system, putting the machinery of AI-assisted targeting under a sharper…
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Carnegie Mellon University has climbed to No. 14 in the 2027 U.S. News national college rankings while taking the top undergraduate position for computer science and artificial intelligence. The result gives readers a useful snapshot of where the talent pipeline for computing is being built, rather than another…
Intel AI Watch
Intel India and NAMTECH have signed a memorandum of understanding to build AI and semiconductor skills in India, linking classroom training to the country’s push to expand its chip industry. The practical point is simple: the next phase of the AI race needs technicians, engineers and educators, not…
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Help Scout has adapted its design process for AI by making its principles explicit, rebuilding its design system so language models can interpret it, and creating internal tools for prototyping and research. The practical result, according to designer Buzz Usborne, is faster execution and more production code without…
Yoshua Bengio Watch
Yoshua Bengio has urged governments to agree international safeguards for artificial intelligence, warning that competition between companies and countries could push powerful systems beyond reliable human control. His intervention comes as Donald Trump dismisses AI concerns and rejects what he calls a globalist attempt to control the technology.
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AI companies are cutting model prices while capability keeps rising, and Axios reports that this awkward combination could make it financially easier for them to slow the race for ever larger systems. The important point is that safer pacing may depend less on goodwill than on whether cheaper…
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President Donald Trump’s AI policy is being shaped not only inside government but through a tight network of Silicon Valley investors and the All-In podcast, Axios reports. The important consequence is political: an accelerationist push to move quickly, limit regulation and treat China as the overriding threat is…
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The Netherlands’ new strategic-innovation agency NADI is launching a €40m challenge with Germany’s SPRIND to accelerate chip design using artificial intelligence. The important point is not another lab demo, but public money being aimed at shortening one of computing’s slowest and most expensive development cycles.
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OpenObserve has released version 1.0 for its cloud and self-hosted platforms, adding AI observability to the same system that handles logs, metrics, traces and real-user monitoring. The practical pitch is simple: teams can follow an AI agent from a user’s screen through model and tool calls to the…
Cohere Watch
Cohere argues that companies are treating AI too much like ordinary software, when the bigger challenge is redesigning work around systems that can collaborate, act and change how decisions are made. Its practical message is clear: define what AI may do, what people must still decide, and who…
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LG is expanding its AI infrastructure partnership with Microsoft while Nvidia approves its cooling and battery systems for AI data centres. The important shift is that the AI build-out is reaching the less glamorous machinery that keeps powerful servers running: cooling, electricity and factory data.
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The Horowitz Andreessen Academy is launching in San Francisco as a $42 million alternative to traditional university, promising hands-on AI building, interpersonal skills and project work instead of conventional majors. Its central wager is that the AI economy needs people who can make useful things, not simply collect…
