#AI

China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom are centering billable AI tokens and computing operations in their latest growth strategies as AI adoption surges nationwide.

A new Google app feature will use AI to tune Discover based on natural-language requests and remember those preferences for future visits.

The startup’s growth reflects a broader boom in AI training data demand that is also lifting rival firms.

Silicon Data is building a benchmark to help investors value and hedge the soaring cost of AI computing power.

The latest feature launch deepens Google's push to make Gemini the AI assistant students turn to for learning and studying, as competition with rivals like OpenAI intensifies.

One ad featured a pornographic deepfake closely resembling a U.S. politician, intensifying scrutiny of Meta’s ad enforcement.

The scheduling company is expanding into meeting productivity tools and is also releasing a scheduling assistant called Callie.

By reconstructing the company's surveillance software, WIRED confirms the tool's reach extends well past plate readers—and some departments are already running it.

Anthropic and OpenAI publish snapshots of how people use Claude and ChatGPT, but outside researchers say the public only sees company-selected data.

The Chinese tech giant is divesting its wholly owned gaming arm to Trustar Capital as part of a broader shift away from noncore businesses.

Secondhand sellers say mystery buyers are placing large orders, prompting speculation that AI companies are acquiring books to scan for data.

As some people describe themselves as ‘marrying’ chatbots, Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to preserve the current legal status: no recognition under US law.

An open-weight model arrives alongside a locked, more powerful system, raising questions about how far Meta's AI openness really goes.

China’s richest province has signed a new framework with Alibaba as it seeks a broader digital upgrade spanning artificial intelligence, semiconductors and smart public services.

A pro se litigant reportedly seeded his filings with chatbot-style prompts, underscoring growing confusion over how AI is being used in legal proceedings.

Wired frames Mark Zuckerberg’s lengthy AI statement as thin on substance, in a broader conversation about how AI is reshaping culture.

The Wall Street Journal says Apple has considered a nine-figure budget to help Siri deliver current news from publishers.

Heise says the conference will feature a keynote by Dr. Constanze Kurz alongside sessions on agentic AI systems, data contracts, modern Lakehouse architectures and governance.

A Verge column reframes automated writing-detection tools as a cultural fault line, tracing suspicion about machine authorship back well before ChatGPT.

Meta is developing a cloud business focused on AI compute, adding competitive pressure to the biggest cloud providers.

The legal-AI startup is reportedly seeking around $500 million in fresh funding, extending a rapid run-up in its valuation.

Report Remove says digitally manipulated intimate imagery is rising, as a watchdog warns AI is making sexualised or nudified content easier to produce.

The streaming platform's newest FAST experiment abandons handpicked libraries in favor of an unending stream of machine-made video.

Respondents to a piece by China’s ambassador to the UK argue that openly released models bring real benefits, but China’s ecosystem — like others’ — falls short of robust openness standards.

WIRED reports that ChatTJB, created by artist and former Google employee Tucker Bryant, is meant to make people reflect on the "strange moment" around AI.

A Lawfare analysis finds xAI's AI-generated encyclopedia has been frozen since late April, with no entry changed in more than three months.

More than 50 offending image and video ads appeared on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data, and some ran as recently as this week.

Meta is expanding its AI coding offerings with a new agent it says can handle complex tasks in complex software.

Tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie argues that integrating AI can inadvertently reduce acquisition value unless founders design their AI strategy with exits in mind.

The chipmaker said data center revenue reached $6.7 billion in its latest quarter, up from $5.8 billion in Q1 and 107 percent higher than a year ago, underscoring how AI demand is reshaping its business.

A seven-year review of Tesla earnings calls shows the CEO devotes roughly half his speaking time to robots and AI, leaving the core car business in the background.

The company is participating in an NSF effort to expand access to AI research and education resources across the U.S.

As competition for scarce AI expertise intensifies, companies are reaching out to doctoral students long before they finish their degrees.

A much-hyped AI-generated staging of Wagner's Ring at the festival's 150th anniversary lands as banal bric-a-brac rather than a probing meditation on power, knowledge and technology.

A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute suggests China is presenting its artificial intelligence ambitions through cultural symbolism as well as technology.

A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute highlights how China is presenting its AI ambitions as both a technical and cultural project.

A Google Research blog item presents SymptomAI as work toward AI-assisted symptom assessment in a general science context.

New EU regulations require people to be told when they're interacting with AI or viewing AI-generated content, raising fears of 'disclosure fatigue.'

Google DeepMind’s robotics update centers on extending AI capabilities from isolated actions toward coordinated, whole-body robot behavior.

The short-lived feature let users alter satellite imagery with text prompts, raising concerns about AI-generated deepfakes of real-world places.

Satya Nadella says the unified app combining chat, coding, and agentic capabilities will span consumer and commercial experiences when it launches this year.

MIT Technology Review’s newsletter flags a chip talent battle alongside a broader discussion of deflating AI hype.