SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps
SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in J [...]
The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.
HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intell [...]
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
WIRED talks to the director of the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence about Latam-GPT, the large-language model that aims to address the region’s specific needs and change the curre [...]
Founders’ takes: AI isn’t the end of developers — it’s their evolution
Founders’ takes is a new series featuring expert insights from tech leaders transforming industries with artificial intelligence. In this edition, Steven Kleinveld, founder of applied AI lab Skyla [...]
ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.
ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure an [...]
Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable
A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out [...]
Big tech signs on to White House plan for AI education in US schools
The White House hosted several tech and AI leaders at an event today centered on teaching artificial intelligence in US schools. Many of the big tech companies — including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, [...]