OpenAI is investing $10bn in a deal with US semiconductor firm Broadcom to develop its own artificial intelligence chips, according to reports in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. The partnership is aimed at reducing OpenAI’s reliance on Nvidia, whose processors currently dominate the AI industry. The new custom chips are expected to be … Read more
The EU on Friday slapped Google with a massive 2.95 billion euro ($3.47 billion) antitrust fine for favouring its own advertising services, despite President Donald Trump’s warnings not to target US big tech. Google vowed to appeal the decision by the European Commission, which accused the US firm of distorting competition in the 27-nation bloc. … Read more
An electric plane took to the skies between the Norwegian airports Stavanger and Bergen on Thursday, simulating a cargo flight for the first time in real-life conditions, Norwegian airlines operator Avinor announced. The small aircraft — an Alia built by US aircraft manufacturer Beta — flew the 160 kilometres (100 miles) in a test run … Read more
American artificial intelligence firm OpenAI said on Tuesday it would add parental controls to its chatbot ChatGPT, a week after an American couple said the system encouraged their teenaged son to kill himself. “Within the next month, parents will be able to… link their account with their teen’s account” and “control how ChatGPT responds to … Read more
Cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits has revealed a technique that embeds malicious prompts into images processed by large language models (LLMs). The method exploits how AI platforms compress and downscale images for efficiency. While the original files appear harmless, the resizing process introduces visual artifacts that expose concealed instructions, which the model interprets as legitimate … Read more
A new generation of stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence (AI) could transform the way doctors detect life-threatening heart conditions, according to researchers in the UK. In what experts are calling a potential “game-changer,” a study led by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust found that the AI-enabled device can identify heart failure, … Read more
Meta is adding new teenager safeguards to its artificial intelligence products by training systems to avoid flirty conversations and discussions of self-harm or suicide with minors, and by temporarily limiting their access to certain AI characters. A Reuters exclusive report earlier in August revealed how Meta allowed provocative chatbot behavior, including letting bots engage in … Read more
Pakistan now has access to Google’s newly launched “AI Mode”, which promises to offer users an advanced AI-powered search engine. The tool is a custom version of Gemini 2.5, which allows users to pose longer, more complex, questions that would have previously required several separate searches. Google, in an earlier statement, had said that early tests … Read more
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in US federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of conspiring to block competition in AI markets. The lawsuit alleged that Apple and OpenAI “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch its massive Starship rocket for a tenth time from Texas on Sunday to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures. The 232-foot tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-feet (52 meters) tall Starship upper half sat stacked on a launch mount … Read more