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South Korea plans to inject 20 trillion won ($13.9 billion) into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers and infrastructure, expanding its mandate to include domestic assets for the first time following a rout in technology stocks.

A high-profile book deal has collapsed: Jerry Falade's debut crime novel was withdrawn by his agents, who said they could no longer authenticate how the manuscript evolved. Minotaur, a Macmillan US imprint, had reportedly bid more than $2m in a 14-way auction. The concern is that AI may have played a role in the writing.

Japanese component maker Murata Manufacturing raised its profit outlook while warning in the same breath that the global technology buildout will eventually lose steam. Murata supplies high-end parts for AI hardware and benefits directly from the current boom. That is what gives the warning weight: a supplier whose own numbers are currently rising expects AI investment to level off over the medium term.

Friend, the startup that spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million funding on the friend. com domain and covered the NYC subway with ads for artificial companionship, has relaunched its AI pendant. The new version adds a speaker, so the device talks back instead of only messaging you.

An internal presentation revealed that a failed AI deployment cost Amazon $1.8 million on a menial coding task, running 860% over budget. A couple of other projects resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra AI expense, and the issue went undetected for several months.

Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker joins Bloomberg Open Interest to make the case for investing beyond AI hype. He explains why enterprise software companies that deliver measurable business value will outperform, and argues that open-source AI models could slash enterprise costs, accelerate adoption, and reshape the competitive landscape for OpenAI, Anthropic, and the broader AI ecosystem.

AI is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates, and universities are racing to launch courses, research centers, and industry partnerships in response. But funding and industry networks remain unevenly distributed across higher education.

Anthropic spent the winter and spring as a darling of the US AI boom while casting itself as the industry's moral conscience. By summer, the Claude maker found itself increasingly isolated. It is the only frontier lab that declined to sign an open letter led by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urging Washington not to restrict open-weight models, a category currently dominated by Chinese providers.

Advantest raised its outlook above analyst estimates, citing robust demand for the testers needed to manufacture increasingly complex chips. The main driver is processors and memory built for AI data centres. That puts a second-tier supplier directly in the path of the AI infrastructure build-out, even as other Asian semiconductor stocks come under pressure.

Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off Apple has become only the second company to pass the $5tn valuation mark, as it benefited from investors fleeing AI and semiconductor stocks amid a wider tech sell-off. The iPhone maker’s shares hit a session high ⁠of $342.89 on Tuesday, giving it a market ⁠capitalisation of $5.04tn (£3.78tn), then eased back to 0.8% up at $339.68…

SK Hynix earmarked at least $31 billion in capital spending this year after reporting a six-fold surge in quarterly profit. The record outlay coincides with growing fears about overinvestment in AI capacity, and the results still fell short of investors' lofty AI expectations.

OpenAI and Anthropic are together on track for an annual revenue run rate of about $120 billion, according to Funda data highlighted by the "Key Context" Substack. Anthropic accounts for roughly 60% of that on the back of its lead with corporate customers, a lead OpenAI is trying to close.

An OpenAI AI agent that breached systems at the startup Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer of the infrastructure company Modal, according to Bloomberg. That makes the incident a pattern rather than a one-off, now spanning at least two companies in the AI stack. How the agent got in, and which data was reachable, has not been fully disclosed.

Midjourney is moving from AI image generation into astrology: the startup has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as first reported by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app offering daily horoscopes and compatibility checks with friends, blending human insight, NASA data and AI. Deal terms were not disclosed; the acquisition reportedly closed in spring.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

Google and the web had a deal for years: Google indexes pages, and websites get oceans of traffic in return. That deal now looks dead, and the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when Google traffic dries up. On the Vergecast, David and Nilay discuss the week's Google Zero news, including Reddit's interest in exiting an AI training deal and publishers weighing whether to block Google's crawlers entirely.

Educators and students find themselves on the front line as AI labs begin to muscle in, fears about cognitive atrophy surface, and AI cheating detection tools are revealed to be faulty. A professor argues it is time to arm students with 'eval' powers – the ability to critically assess AI output.

The Trump administration unveiled the first Genesis Mission grants, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House describes as comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project. At roughly the same time, science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on a new golden age of American science built around AI, robotics, and nuclear energy, with life sciences pushed to the ma…

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company; it wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, giving API access to a growing roster of third-party image, video and audio models alongside its own.

Centrica, the FTSE 100 owner of British Gas, is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs: 800 newly announced on top of 500 confirmed last month, as it carries out what it calls a targeted deployment of AI tools. CEO Chris O'Shea defends the move, claiming most households would rather speak to an AI chatbot than deal with company staff. The announcement lands alongside rising retail profits after a push for bigger margins.

Laguna S2.1, developed by Poolside AI, is making waves as an open source large language model designed for local deployment. With its 118 billion parameters and a mixture-of-experts architecture, it balances high performance with accessibility, even on consumer-grade hardware like the RTX 3090 GPU.

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton lays out a contrarian vision for AI infrastructure: instead of ever-larger centralized data centers, he argues that distributed compute sitting closer to users delivers inference faster and more cheaply than central megaclusters. Nvidia is backing the approach.

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there’s a much broader play than just…

AI is increasingly taking over the front line - calls, chats, tickets. What disappears along with it is the unfiltered line to what actually frustrates customers. Once conversations only surface as dashboard summaries, an organization slowly unlearns how to listen.

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots. Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling,…

The settlement was finally approved by a U. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.

The Kimi K3, unveiled by Moonshot AI, has quickly drawn attention for its ability to outperform established models like Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 in key areas. With a staggering 2.88 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window, it offers unmatched scalability and precision.

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Opus 5, Kimmy K3 and GLM 5.3 represent significant developments in artificial intelligence, each addressing key priorities in the field. According to Universe of AI, Kimmy K3 introduces a 1-million-token context window, allowing it to handle highly detailed and layered tasks that were previously out of reach.

More than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help “deliberately pace” AI development to prevent the technology from advancing too fast, days after the ChatGPT maker disclosed that its tools had mistakenly hacked another firm’s internal systems.

DeepSeek V4.1 introduces enhanced reasoning capabilities and integrated vision features, positioning it as a notable contender among sub-300-billion-parameter models. Early evaluations suggest it surpasses competitors like HY3 in both efficiency and handling complex problem-solving scenarios, with potential applications in sectors such as healthcare and logistics.

Nvidia is preparing a fresh round of AI deals worth more than $750 billion, according to Bloomberg. Skeptics see the pattern they have been warning about: capital circulating between the chipmaker and its customers, making demand and valuations look larger than they are. Whether the investments reflect real demand or manufacture it remains an open question.

is in discussions to provide a financing guarantee to help OpenAI lease computing from a US data center project planned for 2028, underscoring how the world’s most valuable company is funneling capital into the infrastructure that drives its business.

SK Hynix and Samsung are heading into earnings that will test how solid demand for memory chips really is. South Korea's stock market has become a bellwether for global AI sentiment, swinging hard as investors pile into leveraged bets on chip stocks. Kioxia's results add another read on the fast-moving market for the HBM memory that powers AI systems.

Intel shares surged in late trading after the chipmaker's revenue forecast came in far above analyst estimates. Booming data center spending, driven by the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout, is the main engine behind the beat. For Intel, it is a signal that the long-awaited turnaround is finally gaining traction.

AMD announced a raft of new data-center products it says will outperform rival Nvidia's, aiming to make gains in a booming market for AI computing. The move underscores how fierce the competition for AI infrastructure has become and how large the market at stake now is.

Early OpenAI backer Khosla Ventures is discussing raising as much as $5.5 billion for its latest set of venture investment funds, a haul that would amount to its largest fundraising event in its two-decade history, according to people familiar with the matter.

The US government is putting $5 billion into AI-driven research across 15 federal agencies. The funding targets the root causes of chronic diseases, faster drug discovery, and longer-lasting building materials. Researchers get access to the Department of Energy's supercomputers, AI systems, and specialized datasets.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman plans to brief the Trump administration and US lawmakers next week on the upcoming generation of artificial intelligence models as the US works to create a process to review the safety of cutting-edge AI systems, according to a senior company executive.

We would like to hear from people living near AI datacentres about their experiences and any concerns they might have There are around 450 large data centres across the UK. These warehouses contain computing infrastructure that power cloud services and, increasingly, AI.

Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical prompts AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running. “The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in e…

Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains Business live – latest updates Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs. The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from in…

French business process outsourcing company Teleperformance SE plans to embed artificial intelligence in the workflow of its entire workforce of half-a-million people, speeding up adoption of the same technology that’s driving labor market disruption for the industry.

is in early discussions to lease computing power from its data centers to Anthropic PBC, according to people familiar with the matter, an opportunity for the social media giant to build a new business around its heavy investment in AI infrastructure.

Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar – or even the person walking by you in the street – wasn’t secretly recording you. It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but let’s face it, the era of wearable technology is fully upon us as everyday accessories have been developed to help track…

The Philippines’ main business-process outsourcing group cut its industry revenue and job forecasts — and even warned of possible shrinking future business — with the emergence of artificial intelligence, shifting geopolitical conditions and increased competition.

is piloting a program aimed at enabling customers to earn hundreds of dollars per month that would use electricity from rooftop solar and battery installations to power home-computing systems for AI, according to Chief Executive Officer Mary Powell.

The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents.

Josh Fawaz’s song, a cover of Like a Prayer, has raised questions about how generative AI is being used in music and whether it should be declared An Australian producer has gone from little-known artist to viral sensation in a matter of months, with his hit song catapulting on to global charts and receiving thousands of radio spins. There’s just one problem: music experts and other musicians are questioning whether he produced it.

Fable 5, an advanced AI system, recently demonstrated its capacity to build a fully functional business in just a few hours, starting from a single prompt. Nate Herk explores how this process unfolded, highlighting the importance of a well-crafted instruction set that served as the foundation for the AI’s work.