No wonder that, as AI grows rapidly more powerful, experts in the field are gloomily predicting a catastrophe. Some warn of a “Chernobyl moment”: the use of AI that leads to a disaster which causes ...

Elon Musk and other tech leaders explore building data centres in space to overcome terrestrial constraints, with launch ...

Another challenge facing test designers is that early detection may not necessarily save lives. A crucial factor, and something that is still unknown about the new multi-cancer tests, is whether they ...

Donald Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology while simultaneously demanding the company cooperate with the government for six months.

A T LOVABLE’S HEADQUARTERS in Stockholm the decor suits the startup’s cosy name. The firm, which specialises in “vibe-coding”—prompting an artificial-intelligence system to make software—has a ...

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

For nuclear boosters, it shows that atomic energy still has a future in Japan. For critics, it marks the unwelcome revival of ...

W HEN AMERICAN and Israeli warplanes struck Iran at the weekend, killing Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, China’s flagship nightly news programme covered the story with notable ...

In much of the developing world big firms are rare. The typical firm consists of a single worker—the owner. Even among those ...

In an unprecedented one-two punch against a big American firm, Mr Trump said he would immediately ban all American federal ...

This month Anthropic and OpenAI each disclosed evidence that leading Chinese AI labs have illicitly used American models to ...

Perhaps the frenzy of innovation in GPUs, and hence their risk of unexpected depreciation, will have to cool a little before financialisation can proceed at full throttle. But American executives ...