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Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang

The petition had attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon.

Anthropic CEO Amodei admits "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year" days before a record IPO

Days before what could be the largest IPO in history, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called buying compute 'the deepest business dilemma' his company faces. Anthropic's commitments now total nearly $901 billion, and it's still far from clear whether future revenue will justify those…

Sex, spies and Silicon Valley: Nvidia scandal highlights risks for big tech

Chinese economic espionage is in the spotlight after the downfall of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and former intelligence officials say the US is not doing enough to combat it.

Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’, Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages

Andrew McLachlan says he chooses ‘real forests over virtual ones’ as he urges Labor government to consider AI’s impact on artists and environment Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Outspoken Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan has raised the alarm about…

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

Gemini 4 Carbon takes the MathArena crown but costs 15 times more than GPT-6.1 Sol

For the first time in a while, no OpenAI model leads the MathArena AI math benchmark. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon and Anthropic's Fable 5.2 have knocked GPT-6.1 Sol from the top, though both cost significantly more. Gemini ignored the time limit in testing and almost never gave up…

Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic has made Claude Opus 5.5 the default model on all paid plans and published a guide that does away with old prompting habits. The main takeaway is to drop "think hard" and start at Medium effort. The article Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down…

Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.

Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

Fully automated ransomware hasn’t arrived—yet. But seemingly unsophisticated attackers are using AI tools to wreak havoc.

Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand raised in the air, to the claps and…

Anthropic can already retrain Mythos with "a fraction of the compute originally needed," says former researcher Coxon

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon points to a slide from Anthropic's IPO roadshow as a reason he left, saying it shows the company's algorithms are improving not just quickly but at an accelerating rate. Coxon continues to call for a pause on frontier model…

No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong?

Normally, aviation is slow to embrace new technology—but AI has come for the skies.

Runway's open-source Praxis-1 turns video AI into a robot controller

Runway releases its robotics model Praxis-1 with open weights and source code under the Apache 2.0 license. The model uses knowledge from video training for robot control and leads the World Action Model category on Nvidia's RoboLab-120 benchmark. It can't yet plan complex…

‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world

With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? T he romance novelist Coral Hart got her break writing books for…

Microsoft says services fully restored after day-long global outage

Efforts to address the underlying problem with Outlook, Teams and Copilot are complete, the tech firm says.

Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

Nvidia director sold nearly $1B in stock weeks before the Jensen Huang scandal

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Opinion: Target 17 expires in seven weeks. Digital health has a part in what comes next.

Berne Gibbons. By 2026, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were to have “equal levels of digital inclusion”. That is Closing the Gap Target 17. The year ends in seven weeks. On the evidence, the target will be missed. The target is being rewritten. A Target 17 Refresh…

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Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.