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Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants
Aug 27, 2026
Rest of World
India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing
Communities are being left behind as AI companies secure tax breaks, cheap land from willing governments.
Aug 27, 2026
Semafor Technology
Right-leaning US groups push chip curbs
“Dominance in the design and manufacture of advanced AI semiconductors is a national and economic security imperative for the United States and our allies,” the groups wrote.
Aug 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
Aug 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast
AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local comm…
Aug 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Aug 26, 2026
The Register
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Aug 26, 2026
Ars Technica
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Aug 26, 2026
The Register
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
Aug 26, 2026
Ars Technica
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
Aug 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm
Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hack OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks …
Aug 26, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. T…
Aug 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else
Booms in investment usually lead to economic growth. But this one looks unlikely to translate into better living standards for Australians Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get ou…
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
Aug 26, 2026
404 Media
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
Aug 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Hope and concern swirl for Ohioans around ‘world’s largest datacenter’
Piketon datacenter promises to generate thousands of jobs, but environmental groups voice concern over project On a winding road tucked away behind forests in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohi…
Aug 26, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people w…
Aug 26, 2026
Ars Technica
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.
Aug 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of…
Aug 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Bill Gates calls for ‘human reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology’s impact Business live – latest updates Bill Gates has called for “human reserved” jobs in certa…
Aug 26, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The…
Aug 26, 2026
Semafor Technology
'This is crazy. This is insane': Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI and jobs
The Microsoft founder says human-only jobs and token taxes will be required at “a unique moment in evolutionary history.”
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
Aug 26, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues
In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."
Aug 26, 2026
The Register
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud
Aug 25, 2026
Semafor Technology
Anticipated release of China's Z.ai model sparks cybersecurity fears
Due to become available on Friday, the open-source model is reigniting debates over whether advanced technologies should be publicly accessible.
Aug 25, 2026
The Register
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you
Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now
Aug 25, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Aug 25, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Aug 25, 2026
The Register
EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters
State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
Aug 25, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
Aug 25, 2026
Ars Technica
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.
Aug 25, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
Aug 25, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.
Aug 25, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossi…
Aug 25, 2026
Rest of World
America’s immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders
Visa restrictions are deterring international AI talent from building companies in the U.S., giving other nations including China an opportunity to catch up.
Aug 25, 2026
The Register
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
Aug 25, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond In a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a da…
Aug 25, 2026
The Register
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere
Aug 25, 2026
The Register
Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services
Aug 25, 2026
Ars Technica
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
Aug 24, 2026
Ars Technica
Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech
Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households.
Aug 24, 2026
The Guardian Technology
UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites
London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters …
Aug 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.
Aug 24, 2026
Ars Technica
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
Aug 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new inves…
Aug 24, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
Aug 24, 2026