AI

Apple's App Store is on pace to add 1 million new apps this year, most are AI slop

OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another company

Connecting the dots: The AI boom has intensified old fears about the dangers of increasingly autonomous software, but those debates have mostly stayed theoretical, confined to research papers and thought experiments rather than real incidents. A newly disclosed episode involving an OpenAI test model may have added some real-world weight to those fears, even if the full scope of the damage is still being sorted out.

Google records its first negative free cash flow since going public as its AI spending explodes

Nvidia reveals Vera CPU details, claims its custom Olympus cores outperform AMD Epyc Turin

Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"

Big quote: Jensen Huang just spent a week watching his company's valuation get hit by the threat of a Chinese open-weight model. His response was to go on the record defending it. Speaking to Axios in Fort Worth, Texas, at the opening of a new phase of the Wistron plant that builds Nvidia's AI infrastructure, the Nvidia CEO said American companies should "absolutely" be free to run Chinese models. "These Chinese models are excellent," he said. "Open-source models that are excellent should be used." Asked whether China could displace American labs, he was blunt: "Zero possibility."

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt

Ripple effect: Amid growing talk of an AI bubble, a study by Japanese market analysts has found that five of the largest American technology companies are carrying a collective "hidden" debt of over $1.65 trillion, driven largely by massive spending on AI infrastructure. That undisclosed sum exceeds the $1.35 trillion the same companies have officially reported on their balance sheets, and it has grown eightfold over the past four years.

The Marines' new AI gun can track and target people, even though it's marketed as anti-drone

Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035

Reddit and major publishers consider blocking Google as AI search continues destroying web traffic

OpenAI's ambitious ad revenue goals look like AI-generated money, analysis says

Nvidia is giving developers more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop"

Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors wins final court approval

Refuse a data center transmission line on your property, and power companies may force it through anyway

Samsung cuts hundreds of US jobs while AI boom sends chip profits soaring

Spotify is deleting millions of AI-generated music tracks to fend off spammers

Japan's first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks

The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same access as Gemini on Android

Over 4,500 Google workers demand layoff protections as Alphabet's value hits $4.3 trillion

New York school will deploy AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots

OpenAI's first hardware product is a $230 mini keypad for AI coding

Woman discovers a hidden AI camera in her rental car recording her and warning about unsafe driving

George Lucas says rejecting AI is like choosing the horse and buggy over cars

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away

IBM's stock just had its worst day since 1968

SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble

Sarah Connor warned us: Multiple reports are routinely confirming that the alleged "AI revolution" is not going the way Big Tech and VC investors would like it to. SoftBank's founder and largest shareholder, however, still believes the revolution will come to pass. AI skeptics, in his view, are simply on the wrong side of history. Or are they?