Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standar [...]
China built the AI content factory that Silicon Valley imagined but never shipped
In January 2026, a new AI-generated micro-drama went live on a Chinese streaming platform every 90 seconds. By March, approximately 50,000 AI-native titles had been added to Douyin in a single month. [...]
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen t [...]
India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions
India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of [...]
Space weather could cost the satellite industry $40 billion in a single storm. A 15-person startup is building the forecast.
There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could [...]
Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out
The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies sai [...]
Ofcom has never blocked an Openreach offer before. It just moved to block this one.
Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever moved to stop a commercial deal from BT’s network arm. The offer would have give [...]
Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away
Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving. Reuters reported the talks on Thursday, citing peo [...]
