China has overtaken the United States in the global market for open artificial-intelligence models, marking a pivotal moment in the race to shape the future of the technology. A joint study by
A growing scandal over AI-generated sexual images on X has pushed women off the platform and drawn the attention of regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as critics accuse the company
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A growing struggle over the world’s underwater fiberoptic cable networks is emerging as a new front in great-power rivalry, raising fears that the internet itself could be divided into competing geopolitical blocs.
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The UK government and regulators have launched an international row over Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, hosted on his social media platform X, after users were able to manipulate images to strip
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As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, 2026 promises to be a pivotal year, with Chinese AI models gaining unprecedented influence in Silicon Valley and regulatory tensions escalating in the United States.
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The initiative, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to strengthen user data security amid rising online fraud and breaches, covers 83 security standards, including mandatory alerts to the government for major
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OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank have agreed to jointly invest $1 billion in SB Energy, a move aimed at accelerating the development of large-scale data centres to support artificial intelligence growth. The
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The law has always advanced in uneasy tandem with technology, often trailing it, sometimes resisting it, but ultimately reshaping itself in response to what society chooses to deploy in the real world.
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has limited the image generation functionality of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paying subscribers, following a surge of criticism over the tool’s use
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Europe’s largest technology companies are set to avoid heavy-handed regulation under a major overhaul of the European Union’s digital rules, despite lobbying from telecoms firms for stricter oversight, according to people with
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Chinese artificial intelligence company Zhipu AI made a strong debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday, raising $558 million in one of the city’s first major technology listings of 2026,
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