Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
Major US technology companies are dramatically increasing spending on personal security for their chief executives, amid a surge in threats, public hostility, and incidents of violence targeting high-profile business leaders. According to
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Meta, Elon Musk’s xAI, and OpenAI are racing to build next-generation supercomputers, with projects like “Prometheus,” “Hyperion,” “Colossus,” and “Stargate” each representing investments exceeding $100 billion. Yet the true scale of capital
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Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has postponed the launch of its new AI model due to technical difficulties with Huawei’s chips, highlighting the ongoing reliance of Chinese firms on US technology, the
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Apple Inc. is preparing an ambitious slate of new devices — including household robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display, and home-security cameras — as part of
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Grace Huckins recently covered OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, the company’s much-anticipated new flagship language model. While it offers improvements over earlier versions, Huckins concludes that GPT-5 is “above all else, a refined
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OpenAI’s recent launch of GPT-5 was widely anticipated as a significant stride towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), the kind of AI capable of performing any intellectual task a human can. CEO Sam
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The decades-long pursuit to build a practical quantum computer—a technology promising breakthroughs in materials science, AI, and beyond—may finally be nearing a critical milestone. According to a detailed report from the Financial
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly accused Apple Inc. of engaging in unfair practices that favor OpenAI in the company’s App Store rankings. Musk, founder of xAI Holdings—which includes the Grok AI
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A relatively unknown South Korean artificial intelligence start-up, Upstage, is making waves in the global AI race by developing a large language model (LLM) that rivals advanced systems from the United States
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A high-profile investment deal involving the AI start-up Manus and US venture capital firm Benchmark has ignited controversy on both sides of the Pacific, underscoring the growing geopolitical friction surrounding artificial intelligence
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OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship large language model that powers ChatGPT, with CEO Sam Altman describing it as a “major upgrade” and a crucial step toward
More OpenAI is reportedly in early discussions about a potential secondary stock sale that could value the artificial intelligence pioneer at around US$500 billion, according to individuals briefed on the matter. The transaction,
More Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a significant evolution, as developers increasingly focus on building agents — autonomous systems capable of perceiving their environment and acting independently to achieve goals. According to a
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Texas-based biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of three gene-edited animals that it claims are the world’s first “de-extinct” creatures. The announcement, made in April and reported by Nature, has
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In 2005, a groundbreaking experiment changed how scientists understand and detect consciousness. A 23-year-old woman, left unresponsive after a car accident, was asked to imagine playing tennis while undergoing a brain scan.
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