US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad

New Commerce Department guidance ties export-licence rules to where a company is headquartered, not where it sits, snaring the overseas units of Chinese AI firms. For about a year, there was a way aro [...]

A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turn [...]

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront [...]

Vertice buys Vendr to build what it calls the largest procurement dataset

Vertice has bought Vendr. The London-based AI procurement company announced on Monday that it has acquired the US software-pricing firm, a deal it says creates the world’s largest procurement intell [...]

Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due

Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its back [...]

White House video shows migrants arrested to Sabrina Carpenters Juno. Singer calls it evil and disgusting.

A new White House video shows migrants being arrested to the song "Juno" by Sabrina Carpenter, and the singer called the video "evil" on social media. [...]

Axos buys AI fintech Arc Technologies to bolt modern software onto a bank

Axos is buying Arc Technologies, an AI-native fintech that banks tech startups, and bolting its software onto a chartered bank. Axos Financial, a US digital bank with about $29bn in assets, has agreed [...]

Meta is committing additional funding to keep its Oversight Board running through 2028

The social media company will add to the board's irrevocable trust, though the exact amount has not been disclosed [...]

A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between € [...]