SoftBank’s Son Sounds an Unusual Alarm on Superintelligence
The man who has spent years betting more loudly than almost anyone on artificial intelligence stood before a Kyoto audience on Sunday and said the technology he champions could become,…
French Supercomputer Maker Bull Plans to Double Output
Europe’s effort to build more of its own AI computing power is about to land on a factory floor in western France. Bull, the French supercomputer maker owned by Atos,…
A Napster Founder Steers Stability AI Into the Music Business
The company that once helped upend the record business is about to sell software to the people who make the records. Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder whose file-sharing service shook…
Alphabet Faces a Securities Suit and an Ad-Tech Trial Date
Alphabet woke up to two legal fronts on October 2, and they point at opposite sides of the company. One questioned what executives told investors about its flagship AI model.…
Salesforce Reaches a Deal for Listen Labs
Listen Labs started with a question its founders could not answer with a survey. After an app the two co-founders built picked up 20,000 users overnight, they wanted to know…
xAI Pauses Minnesota’s AI-Nudes Law
Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated fake nude images was in force for two months before a federal appeals court put it on hold. On October 2, the St. Louis-based Eighth U.S.…
OpenAI Hires Former White House AI Official to Lead Cyber-Risk Team
For much of this year, Thomas Lind’s job was to help the U.S. government think about artificial intelligence. He worked inside the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director,…
Anthropic Bets $100 Million It Can Train Its Own Enterprise Engineers
Anthropic is planning to spend $100 million to teach other companies’ engineers to do a job that barely existed a year ago. The announcement landed on the same day the…
Apple Tightens the macOS Permission AI Assistants Were Exploiting
The setting was designed for backup software: a quiet toggle buried in macOS that lets a program read the files, the mail, the messages and the browsing history on a…
Trump Asked Grok About Capturing Maduro, Time Reports
In December 2025, according to an account in Time magazine, Donald Trump sat down privately with Elon Musk and put a question to a chatbot: what would Venezuelans do if…
