Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough
Nscale closed a $3.36B pre-IPO round led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia still to come
Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded
Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent
Xi tells Trump the US and China can jointly prevent AI misuse and abuse
Tesla’s Semi finally enters production, nine years after it was shown
Infrastructure complexity is reshaping how smaller technology firms operate
Peter Thiel says the pope’s AI encyclical was ‘working for’ China
Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar
US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic
Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations
Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6
Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs
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Precision Neuroscience raises $250m at a $1bn valuation, NYT reports
Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips
Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island co-founders Dan Amiga, in a navy shirt jacket, and Mike Fey, arms crossed in a cream overshirt, against a grey backdrop
O-ID co-founders Simon Gormuzov (left) and Stian Jakobsen (right) smiling as they lean on the arms of a white two-armed O-ID humanoid robot, in front of a grey backdrop
Nscale chief executive Josh Payne, smiling, in a dark shirt against a black background
Numeral co-founders Sam Ross and Matt DuVall in side-by-side portraits against a pale blue textured backdrop
White twin-propeller surveillance drone with long wings and a nose-mounted sensor turret, parked on an airfield runway under a pink evening sky
Smartphone showing the orange and red pixel Mistral AI logo, with a blurred photo of Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch on a screen behind it
Ingimar Tomasson leans back on a tan leather sofa while Gregory Janik sits forward in a leather armchair beside a chrome and glass table.
Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000
