Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure [...]

Sam Altman tells Congress to fund AI testing, not to require model approvals

Sam Altman spent the week in Washington making a careful distinction. He is asking lawmakers to spend more money testing artificial intelligence, and asking them not to require AI companies to win gov [...]

Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But the model chews through about 40 percent mor [...]

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of nation [...]

The University of Cambridge says it successfully tested a vaccine with an AI-designed antigen

It's the first instance of an vaccine antigen designed exclusively by artificial intelligence. [...]

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Urs [...]

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and govern [...]

Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House

Sriram Krishnan, the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down. The former Andreessen Horowitz partner was tapped by President Donald Trump to help shape the a [...]

JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring

JPMorgan Chase is hiring Nomura Holdings’ international head of artificial intelligence strategy, according to Bloomberg, as the largest US bank by assets accelerates its recruitment of AI specialis [...]