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MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale
A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.
China's Ambassador to the UK Says the Two Countries Should Work Together on AI
In a piece for The Guardian, Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang argues that AI is too big and too important for any one country to handle alone, and that Britain and China have real reasons to collaborate.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Lineup: Amazon, Replit, Tether and More Will Take the Stage in October
The three-day San Francisco conference runs October 13 to 15 and brings together some of the biggest names in AI, crypto and hardware. Tickets are up to $300 cheaper if you move before the pricing window closes.
Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.
Germany's Chancellor Is Reading the Pope's AI Encyclical on Holiday
Friedrich Merz packed a papal document on artificial intelligence for his summer break. Here's what that document says, and why a struggling world leader might find comfort in it.
Flock Safety's AI cameras are under fire for more than surveillance. Now critics say they can cause crashes.
The license plate reader cameras that police departments across the US use to track vehicles may also be creating physical hazards for drivers, safety advocates say.
Lloyds Bank Plans £2bn Cost Cuts With AI at the Centre of Its Strategy
Britain's biggest high street bank will invest £13bn by 2030, with artificial intelligence playing a central role in its plan to cut costs and attract new customers.
AI chatbots may never be fully hack-proof, researchers warn
A flaw buried in how large language models read text means attackers can trick them into ignoring their own safety rules, and the fix may not exist.
LinkedIn Is Freezing Its AI Data Center Spending for a Full Year
While rivals pour billions into new chips and server farms, LinkedIn says it doubled the efficiency of its existing hardware and saved $24 million in the process.
Two-thirds of people think ChatGPT is conscious. A philosopher says we've been fooling ourselves for decades.
A new survey finds most people attribute some form of feeling to AI chatbots. One scholar argues we've had the wrong idea about minds and bodies long before the first chatbot appeared.
AI Chatbots Are Better Than Human Scammers at Earning Your Trust, Study Finds
Researchers put AI against real scammers in a live experiment. The AI won, and the implications for fraud are alarming.
A Private Chef Cooked Me a Free Three-Course Meal. The Catch: Every Knife Stroke Was Filmed to Train Robots.
A startup called Shift is trading free home services for something more valuable than cash: first-person video of skilled human hands, captured inside real homes to teach the next generation of household robots.
AI reads your website but sends people to your front door. Most sites are not ready for that.
Traffic from Google Search has collapsed for many publishers. But a new kind of visitor is arriving through AI chatbots, and they land somewhere completely different from where the AI found the information.
Microsoft is quietly building a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, using their own warnings against them
CEO Satya Nadella used this week's earnings call to pitch Microsoft's own AI models and chips as a cheaper, safer alternative to the very labs his company invested in.
Jim Cramer Says Nvidia's AI Financing Deals Smell Like the Dot-Com Bubble
The veteran market commentator is not predicting a crash, but he sees a worrying pattern: a chip giant lending money to the very customers buying its chips.
Two Thousand AI Bills and Still No Long-Term Plan: The Case for a National Regulator
States, Congress and the White House have flooded the zone with AI proposals. A former Nasdaq CEO argues that every single one fixes today's problem while leaving tomorrow's wide open.
Microsoft Posts $90 Billion Quarter as Cloud and AI Drive Record Results
Azure revenue crossed $100 billion for the full year, Copilot reached 30 million paid users, and capital spending nearly doubled. Here is what the numbers mean and why a few caution flags remain.
Australian Robot Maker Buys Stake in AI Firm That Teaches Machines to Read Social Cues
GMEX Robotics has signed a deal to acquire part of Singapore's MediaMeta, which builds AI that understands human behaviour, body language, and cultural context. The goal: robots that feel less like machines.
Microsoft made more from Anthropic in one quarter than from OpenAI all year
A fresh set of earnings figures shows Microsoft's bet on Anthropic is paying off fast, while its older stake in OpenAI had a rough three months.
Microsoft Is Building One App to Rule All Its Copilot Tools
The company's CEO confirmed a single 'super app' will combine chat, coding, and AI agents for both everyday users and businesses, launching later this year.
Anthropic's Mythos AI Found Hidden Weaknesses in Two Major Encryption Systems
The cracks are small, not catastrophic. But an AI model quietly chipping away at the maths that protects your data is worth understanding.