Tencent Joins Alibaba (BABA) and Baidu (BIDU) in Billion-Dollar AI Funding Drive
Tencent (TCEHY), the owner of WeChat and the world’s biggest video-game business, has returned to the bond market…
AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella
Recently, Palantir – a tech corporation that boasts no fewer than five billionaire executives – announced its Q2…
Fortescue uses AI agents to tackle scam ads that use Andrew Forrest’s identity
Mining giant Fortescue is taking the fight against scam ads featuring its executive chairman Andrew Forrest into its…
Falling behind in AI is still good for Google
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US,…
Google to invest £5 billion in UK AI as Trump heads for state visit
General view of the Google headquarters in King’s Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound…
Cybersecurity and data protection threatened by AI as “bad actors” store encryption keys for advances in quantum computing
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke optimistically refers to the “human firewall” that can form part of the defence…
Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit | Google
Google has said it will invest £5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet…
Westpac stands up Copilot Studio for Gen AI agent development
Westpac is rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its business, enabling cross-functional teams to build and scale generative…
AI factory startup Firmus raises $330 million at $1.9 billion valuation
Firmus Technologies has become the latest Australian-founded startup to reach unicorn status, after the artificial intelligence infrastructure company…
Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Leading British artists including Mick Jagger, Kate Bush and Paul McCartney have urged Keir Starmer to stand up…
Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM
The companies seeking to build larger AI models have been increasingly stymied by a lack of high-quality training…
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China | China
Song-chun Zhu at Peking University, July 2025. Photograph: Sean Gallagher/The Guardian By the time Song-Chun Zhu was six…