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Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it is just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a $500 billion deal to lock down AI memory supply
The agreement covers specialised memory chips that every powerful AI processor needs, and it comes with plans for massive new data centres in South Korea.
Every major AI model leans left on politics, even Grok, half the time
A small research lab ran 16 leading AI models through a well-known political quiz thousands of times. All but one landed consistently in the libertarian-left zone. The one exception was Elon Musk's Grok, which couldn't make up its mind.
Kraken Technology hits $1 billion valuation after raising $175 million for autonomous naval drones
The UK startup builds unmanned boats and submarines for NATO and special-operations forces. Fresh funding will push production to four continents.
Microsoft's CEO says companies that hand too much to one AI lab may not survive
Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that businesses letting a single AI provider control their data, tools and workflows are making a dangerous bet. His solution: keep your own data, run your own models. Critics note Microsoft sells exactly that alternative.
Your Private Claude Chats Could Show Up in a Google Search
A technical gap between Anthropic's privacy instructions and how search engines actually work left shared Claude conversations visible to anyone who knew where to look.
Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued a company called SerpApi for selling search results it had scraped from Google. A judge dealt Google a setback last week. Google says it is pressing on anyway, and Reddit has quietly joined the fight.
Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.
Microsoft Unveils Cybersecurity Model and Platform to Tackle AI-Driven Threats
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model and Perception platform to enhance AI cybersecurity, challenging key industry players.
Radar's New Brain: How AI Is Teaching Military Systems to Outthink Jamming Threats in Real Time
Modern electronic warfare threats change their signals faster than any human or fixed database can follow. A new generation of AI-powered radar systems aims to close that gap, and the engineering challenges are enormous.
NORD Drivesystems Stretches Its Motor-Control Drive Family Up to 200 Horsepower
Four new frame sizes bring the NORDAC PRO series to ten total, covering everything from small conveyor belts to heavy industrial machinery, all in a slim, side-by-side cabinet design.
Fantasy Premier League Gets an AI Companion to Help You Pick Your Squad
Microsoft's new FPL Companion tool answers your team questions, surfaces player stats, and updates in real time, but it will not pick your team for you.
ChatGPT now refuses to copy a living author's writing style
OpenAI's chatbot has quietly started blocking requests to mimic named authors, offering a watered-down alternative instead. Here is what changed and why it matters.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That is forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they have long avoided.
British Gas says customers prefer chatbots. A reader says: that's because you made calling nearly impossible.
Centrica's chief executive claims nine in ten customers choose digital channels over a phone call. A letter writer argues the company's own call barriers are driving that number, not genuine preference.
Meta AI comes to Threads private messages, starting today
The chatbot already works in Threads public posts in some countries. Now every user worldwide can have a private conversation with it inside the app.
Why AI Vision Systems Miss What's Right in Front of Them
Apple ML Research has a new tool that finds the hidden patterns behind AI mistakes in object detection, and its findings matter for anyone relying on AI to spot things in the real world.
Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here is what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.
Fusion power, crumbling grids and hungry data centres: TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 maps out AI's energy crisis
A three-day conference in San Francisco this October will gather fusion scientists, grid engineers and data-centre operators to answer one urgent question: where does all the electricity come from?