Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It’s one of the world’s largest…
LinkedIn Introduces a ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button
LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a…
China’s open-weight model lead exposes America’s AI blind spot
Some of America’s biggest technology companies are pushing Washington to make open artificial intelligence a national priority as…
Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy | Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part of a four-year plan under which its…
With a stateless makeover, new MCP spec targets enterprise scale
The hope is that the changes, detailed in the protocol’s documentation, will make widespread deployment in an enterprise…
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A United States government map of Africa mislabelled every country during a State Department presentation at a global…
I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange…
I asked ChatGPT to stop me buying things I don’t need, and it was brutally helpful — I just wish I’d thought of it sooner
The problem with online shopping is that it makes it far too easy to buy pretty much anything,…
Google DeepMind Disbands Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Team
The award-winning team behind Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold program is no more, according to Financial Times. Google has reassigned some…
Nano Banana Image Generation Comes To Google Earth
This lets people “visualize the past” via AI-created pictures. Google just announced that its Nano Banana image generation…
German chancellor chooses pope’s AI encyclical over pacy potboiler as holiday read | Germany
Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing page-turners – airport reads that…
Rolls-Royce says defense, data centers and nuclear underpin next phase of growth
Rolls-Royce is deepening its exposure to the AI infrastructure boom, with the British engineering group forecasting that continuous…