'Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI': DeepSeek wants to "at least double the size of every department" as company pursues hiring spree in pursuit of AGI

DeepSeek is hiring engineers, product managers and more as it targets the next era of AI – artificial general intelligence. [...]

Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export

The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs officers found something the paperwork did not mention: advanced artifi [...]

Apple's Price Hikes Aren't Just an AI Problem

Commentary: The boom in artificial intelligence is causing a memory chip shortage. Apple decided to make us pay for it. [...]

Austria asks the EU to consider giving Anthropic a home in Europe

European government has, in writing, asked the European Union to find a way to host an American artificial-intelligence company. The request is unusual enough that the official making it conceded, in [...]

Germany’s AI rollout is being sold as a fix for its worker shortage

The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a [...]

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl [...]

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 [...]

China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking cla [...]

Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts

A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift [...]