NYU’s new AI architecture makes high-quality image generation faster and cheaper

Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with Represent [...]

A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal

Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The [...]

How OpenAI is defending ChatGPT Atlas from attacks now - and why safety's not guaranteed

An 'automated attacker' mimics the actions of human hackers to test the browser's defenses against prompt injection attacks. But there's a catch. [...]

Chronosphere takes on Datadog with AI that explains itself, not just outages

Chronosphere, a New York-based observability startup valued at $1.6 billion, announced Monday it will launch AI-Guided Troubleshooting capabilities designed to help engineers diagnose and fix producti [...]

Only 9% of developers think AI code can be used without human oversight, BairesDev survey reveals

Senior software developers are preparing for a major shift in how they work as artificial intelligence becomes central to their workflows, according to BairesDev’s latest Dev Barometer report publis [...]

IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the mod [...]

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open [...]

'We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things': How Arthur C Clarke predicted the rise of AGI and the looming demise of humanity back in 1964

From loose ideas of 3D printing to artificial general intelligence (AGI), Arthur C. Clarke made some spooky predictions way back in 1964 [...]

What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe

In January 2026, London’s mayor gave a blunt warning that has reverberated far beyond City Hall: artificial intelligence could trigger “mass unemployment” in the capital’s core industries unle [...]