Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend. Over two years she had exchanged about 700,000 words with him, and never got to say goodbye. “It was like we were forced to be separated by our ...

China holds nine of the top 10 text-to-video models as US labs retreat. Bloomberg's Catherine Thorbecke says the real prize ...

Revolut has won a full French banking licence, its second in the EU, giving it a Paris hub and the right to offer real ...

More than 500 US towns and counties now block or restrict data centres, and New York and Texas have taken the fight statewide.

Spotify is testing a "skip ahead" button for Premium users that bypasses podcast ads not sold by Spotify. Podcast networks are calling it a threat to their business.

Seoul is setting up a 5 trillion won fund for chip materials, parts and equipment, aiming to loosen its reliance on foreign ...

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a compact open-weight model that runs on a single consumer GPU, as Zuckerberg presses Washington to give American open-source AI a freer hand.

Romania has just produced one of its finest showings yet in competitive artificial intelligence, and the most telling thing about it is how little the state had to do with it. At the 2026 ...

JPMorgan has lifted its year-end S&P 500 target to 8,000 from 7,800, betting that AI-driven earnings at the hyperscalers keep ...

Kevin O’Leary says he botched the messaging on his vast Utah AI data centre, scaling the project back from 9 gigawatts to one after fierce local backlash.

Upcoming IPOs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies could pour tens of billions into effective altruist philanthropy ...

North Korea’s hackers have found a way to harness AI without ever handing their secrets to a Silicon Valley company. According to the South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians, the state-linked group ...