OpenAI knew. It chose not to call the police. Now Sam Altman is sorry.
The US wants to cut off China’s chip equipment. China says the supply chain will break for everyone.
The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.
Oracle needed the world’s biggest bond fund to finance the world’s biggest data centre
Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them
The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company
Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget
Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.
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Securing the future of AI: How Tresor Lisungu Oteko is bridging cloud systems and post-quantum security
Denis Brovarnyy: Tech education that starts where theory ends
Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid
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