OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is [...]

Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it [...]

Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kaz [...]

Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning u [...]

China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.

Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing [...]

X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.

X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change is designed to reward creators who post ori [...]

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the large [...]

China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.

China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export controls on advanced semiconductors have dominat [...]

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts [...]