DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has joined two other high-profile industry figures in launching a new venture called Inflection AI. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is joining Suleyman on the venture. “Reid and I are excited to announce that we are co-founding a new company, Inflection AI,” wrote Suleyman in a statement....
Gemini 2.5 is being hailed by Google DeepMind as its “most intelligent AI model” to date. The first model from this latest generation is an experimental version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which DeepMind says has...
A leak suggests that OpenAI is about to launch a powerful new open-source AI model, potentially within hours. The evidence comes from a trail of digital breadcrumbs, eagerly pored over by developers. At the centre...
The EU AI Act is set to fully take effect in August 2026, but some provisions are coming into force even earlier. The legislation establishes a first-of-its-kind regulatory framework for AI systems, employing a risk-based...
The EU has concluded Microsoft’s $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance doesn’t pose competition concerns. Nuance gained renown for originally creating the backend of that little old virtual assistant called Siri (you might have heard of...
As we approach a new year filled with potential, the landscape of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), is on the brink of significant transformation. Manish Jethwa, CTO at Ordnance Survey (OS),...
The proposed merger between Nvidia and British chip technology giant Arm is looking increasingly doubtful as the CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) believes the deal “raises serious competition concerns”. A $40 billion merger of two...
The majority of Axon’s AI ethics board have resigned after the company announced that it’s developing taser-equipped drones. In response to yet another shooting in a US school, Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith began...
Oracle is planning to spend around $40 billion on Nvidia chips to support a massive new data centre being developed by OpenAI in Texas, according to reporting by the Financial Times. The move marks one...
xAI unveiled its Grok 3 AI model on Monday, alongside new capabilities such as image analysis and refined question answering. The company harnessed an immense data centre equipped with approximately 200,000 GPUs to develop Grok...