Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers

The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaig [...]

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 [...]

Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand

Micron Technology broke ground on Saturday on a ¥1.5 trillion, roughly $9.3bn, expansion of its factory in Hiroshima, western Japan, the company’s latest bet on the AI memory boom that has already [...]

Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending

Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% i [...]

France’s antitrust probe into Nvidia is nearing its end, regulator says

France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wi [...]

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 [...]

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is its most honest AI model yet, and Mythos is coming in weeks

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model that the company says is more honest, more reliable in agentic tasks, and better at catching its own mistakes. The model is [...]

Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi is cheaper to build, harder to break, and made in China

Waymo has started offering rides to select passengers in its new Ojai robotaxi, the first vehicle purpose-built for autonomous ride-hailing rather than retrofitted from an existing car. The Ojai runs [...]

Oura’s Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and it arrives three days before a likely IPO filing

Oura has launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and, at 6.09mm wide and 2.29mm thick, is the smallest smart ring on the market. The ring weighs as little as 2 grams [...]