Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’ Public sector workers…
Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots
Meta is changing some of the rules governing its chatbots two weeks after a Reuters investigation revealed disturbing ways in which they could, potentially, interact…
Experts warn AI stuffed animals could ‘fundamentally change’ human brain wiring in kids
Do AI chatbots packaged inside plush animals really help children, or do they threaten vital developmental milestones? Companies market them as “screen-free playmates”…
Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue
Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two customers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.…
Marketing AI boom faces crisis of consumer trust
The vast majority (92%) of marketing professionals are using AI in their day-to-day operations, turning it from a buzzword into…
Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI
It’s only been since June that Meta invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling vendor Scale AI, bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang and…
How to use AI without losing our minds
The recent launches of Gemini Deep Think and GPT-5 have highlighted the rapid evolution of large language models. With 67…
MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions
As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain…
OpenAI Restructuring Delayed by Negotiations With Microsoft
OpenAI’s corporate restructuring could reportedly be pushed back to next year. At issue, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 27) Financial Times…
Microsoft Launches Public Testing of First In-House Foundation Model
Microsoft AI (MAI) has begun public testing of the first foundation model it trained in-house. The model, dubbed MAI-1-preview, is being…
Camb.AI launches AI-powered real-time translation for news
Camb.AI has launched real-time translation for news, powered by AI. Now available in over 150 languages, Camb.AI For News adds…
AI & Tech Weekly Roundup: August 31 – September 6, 2025
As August turns into September, the global tech scene comes alive with a mix of festivals, summits, expos, and academic…
Anthropic Warns of ‘Sophisticated’ Cybercrime Via Claude LLM
Anthropic is warning of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybercrime. “Agentic AI has been weaponized,” the company wrote…
Anthropic and OpenAI Evaluate Safety of Each Other’s AI Models
Artificial intelligence startups Anthropic and OpenAI said Wednesday (Aug. 27) that they evaluated each other’s public models, using their own safety and misalignment tests.…
Nvidia CEO Huang Bets Full Stack Beats Open Source
Few companies in history have experienced a revenue trajectory as dramatic as Nvidia’s over the past two years. The latest…
EliseAI Raises $250 Million to Automate Healthcare and Housing
EliseAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on automating healthcare and housing systems, has raised $250 million in a Series E round…
Malaysia aims to be in top 20 AI economies by 2030 — Chang
Malaysia aims to be among the world’s top 20 artificial intelligence (AI) economies by 2030 through the National AI Roadmap…
Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate
A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative. But rather…
Aurelian Raises $14 Million for AI That Fields Non-Emergency 911 Calls
Aurelian began life as a company that automated hair salon appointment bookings. Now, its mission is to use artificial intelligence to…
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI
Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding…