Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’

The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in [...]

Will We Govern AI, or Will AI Govern Us?

Commentary: The problem of aligning artificial intelligence with human interests is one of the biggest challenges we face. [...]

OpenAI is reportedly working on an AI music-generation tool

According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is interested in developing a tool that could generate music from text and audio prompts, and has been working with students from The Juilliard Schoo [...]

Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech?

AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future. [...]

America's Sovereign AI supercomputers will use AMD chips

AMD is working with the US Department of Energy to build sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the agency's famous research and development center. NVIDIA describes sovere [...]

How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

AEREDIUM’s New Patent Wants to Replace Quarterly Stablecoin Audits With AI That Never Stops Watching

The stablecoin industry has long relied on a familiar trust model: accounting firms periodically review reserve balances and publish attestations weeks after the underlying data was collected. For an [...]

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you wa [...]

Microsoft and OpenAI set their own rules for AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have decided they'll define for themselves what counts as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and when they've supposedly achieved it.<br /> The article Microsof [...]