Ezim Joshua 
David Ellison has finally won the fight he spent much of the past year waging. Paramount Skydance’s pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery is set to close within roughly two weeks after the company reached a settlement with 12 Democratic state attorneys general who had sued to block the deal, Ellison wrote in a staff memo … Read more
A sweeping new global survey has found that most of the world feels considerably more optimistic about artificial intelligence than the anxious, headline-driven discourse around the technology might suggest, at least outside the United States. According to Gallup’s ongoing research conducted in partnership with Microsoft, positive emotions toward AI outweigh negative ones in 34 of … Read more
The KDE open source community, best known for developing the Plasma desktop environment used across many Linux distributions, found itself in the middle of a heated internal fight this week over how the project should handle contributions generated with the help of large language models. A discussion thread proposing formal guidelines for LLM use within … Read more
Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy, announced a new collaboration with Anthropic on September 16 that will bring Claude’s frontier AI models, including the specialized Claude Science platform, directly into the company’s drug discovery and development workflows. The deal marks the latest in a string of technology partnerships Novo has struck … Read more
China’s push to secure enough electricity for its rapidly expanding AI data center network is accelerating the country’s nuclear ambitions on two fronts at once, driving both a historic buildout of conventional reactors and a heavily funded race toward nuclear fusion, long regarded as the holy grail of clean energy. According to reporting from the … Read more
Even as the AI-fueled stock rallies that swept through North Asia earlier this year have turned choppier, the wealth those rallies created is still working its way through the region’s economies, and nowhere is that more visible than at the jewelry counters, watch boutiques and luxury department stores of Seoul and Tokyo. Affluent consumers in … Read more
New details have emerged about exactly which jobs bore the brunt of Oracle’s latest round of layoffs, and the data paints a striking picture of a company cutting deep into the very cloud infrastructure teams it depends on to run its business, even as it pours tens of billions of dollars into AI data center … Read more
While American AI researchers debate whether the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity within the decade, the fear dominating conversations in China looks considerably more immediate and personal. Milo Jiang, a young professional in Hong Kong, told NBC News he isn’t worried about AI wiping out the human race. He’s worried about losing … Read more
Most founders assume their biggest obstacle is funding. Jack Ma, the man who built Alibaba into one of the largest internet companies in the world, argues the opposite. Money, in his view, tends to find its way to a genuinely convincing idea. What is actually scarce is the kind of conviction that keeps a person … Read more
Just weeks after Meta launched Muse, its new AI assistant for macOS, with promises that the product was built from the ground up for privacy and security, a security researcher has demonstrated a working zero-day vulnerability capable of hijacking the assistant entirely, undercutting much of the confidence Meta projected when it introduced the product to … Read more