SoftBank unveils $87 billion France data centre expansion plan

SoftBank Group recently said that it plans to invest up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand data centre capacity in France, marking what the company described as its “largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe.”
3 June 2026

ChatGPT reaches 1 billion monthly active users, data shows

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has reached one billion global monthly active users, making it the fastest app to cross that threshold, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
3 June 2026

Nvidia is betting on AI PCs. What are they?

Nvidia has thrust AI-powered personal computers into the spotlight after chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled a new chip that embeds artificial intelligence capabilities directly into laptops and desktops, even as demand for such devices remains uneven.
2 June 2026

Nvidia unveils RTX Spark 'superchip' for Windows PCs

Nvidia has announced the RTX Spark, a new 'superchip' designed for a new generation of slim Windows laptops and compact desktop PCs.
1 June 2026

Anthropic reaches $965 bln valuation, surpasses OpenAI

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a recent Series H funding round, valuing the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion post-money.
1 June 2026

DuckDuckGo 'no-AI' search triples after Google I/O

Visits to DuckDuckGo’s 'No AI' search page have more than tripled since Google unveiled its latest round of AI features for Search, the company has announced.
31 May 2026

Altman offers $2 million in AI credits to Y Combinator startups for equity

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has pledged two million dollars worth of application programming interface (API) tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch in exchange for a future equity stake
24 May 2026

Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America

Starbucks terminated an AI programme workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week
22 May 2026

How is Google Search changing?

Google just announced some of the most significant changes to its search engine in decades. Here is what is changing, according to Google's official blog.
21 May 2026

Google launches Gemini Omni, new AI video models

Google has unveiled Gemini Omni, a new family of generative AI models capable of producing and editing video from a mix of text, images, audio, and existing clips.
21 May 2026

Alibaba launches new homegrown AI chip

Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence processor and a flagship large language model engineered specifically for autonomous AI agents.
21 May 2026

When machines lie with confidence

From phantom airline discounts to silent hiring rejections, automated systems are making consequential decisions that no human seems prepared to defend.
20 May 2026

HerWILL announces winners of global AI digital safety datathon

HerWILL has concluded its global AI for Digital Safety Datathon 2026 in Dhaka, naming Azra Tuni of Bangladesh as champion after a competition focused on using artificial intelligence to address harmful online content.
12 May 2026

AI models disagree on which jobs AI will disrupt, study finds

A new study warns that artificial intelligence cannot reliably predict which occupations it will disrupt.
12 May 2026

Cloudflare to make 1,100 layoffs despite record high revenue

Cloudflare has announced plans to cut approximately 1,100 jobs even as the internet infrastructure company reported the highest quarterly revenue in its history.
9 May 2026

Study finds AI models can replicate themselves without human assistance

Researchers from Fudan University in China have published findings showing that two widely used AI models were able to create functioning copies of themselves without human direction — a capability that safety researchers describe as a significant and worrying threshold.
7 May 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as new default ChatGPT model

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5 Instant, a new foundation model that will replace GPT-5.3 Instant as the default model powering ChatGPT, with the company saying the update significantly reduces the rate of AI hallucinations in sensitive professional domains while maintaining low response times.
6 May 2026

AI is creating an enormous number of jobs: Nvidia CEO

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has sought to counter growing concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) displacing workers, arguing that the technology is generating jobs rather than eliminating them.
5 May 2026

Fake Taylor Swift videos push online scams on TikTok

AI-generated videos featuring celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Rihanna are being used to promote scam services on TikTok, according to research from Copyleaks, an authentication company.
30 April 2026

It's Musk vs Altman, and the future of AI at stake

The years-long public war between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has entered its most consequential phase, with a federal trial now under way in Oakland, California that could reshape the structure and leadership of OpenAI and carry significant implications for the future of artificial intelligence.
29 April 2026