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OpenAI's rush to match Anthropic's Mythos exposes a new front in the AI arms race, and a growing policy vacuum
The release of GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted defenders comes weeks after Anthropic's model found thousands of unknown software flaws, forcing Washington to confront whether AI has already outpaced cybersecurity regulation
The enterprise AI adoption gap is widening, and vendors have only themselves to blame
Customers at ServiceNow's annual conference said they want fewer new features, clearer pricing and honest answers about what AI can actually deliver in six months
Microsoft's Copilot retreat is the first real admission that bolting AI onto everything does not work
After two years of embedding AI across its product empire, Microsoft is removing free features, hiking prices and acknowledging that customers found many of its Copilot tools useless
OpenAI's $18bn chip deal with Broadcom hits financing snag as Microsoft declines to commit
The AI company needs Microsoft to buy 40% of a custom inference chip called Jalapeno, but Redmond has not signed a purchase agreement.
DeepSeek plans record $7bn fundraise as Chinese AI lab shifts from research project to commercial operation
The round, backed by China's state semiconductor fund and founder Liang Wenfeng, would value the company at $45 billion
EU gives Google more time to fix search data proposal as Digital Markets Act deadline looms
Brussels says the company's latest offer to address competition concerns is 'simply not strong enough' as a July decision approaches
Polymarket's regulated US arm is generating revenue but remains a fraction of its offshore empire
The CFTC-approved platform has been live since late 2025 but is still in beta, with monthly revenue in the low single-digit millions against billions in trading on its international exchange
CoreWeave's first-quarter loss exposes the tension at the heart of the AI infrastructure boom
Revenue more than doubled but losses widened sharply, raising questions about whether the economics of renting Nvidia GPUs can ever produce sustainable profits
Sony deepens partnership with TSMC on AI image sensors
The Japanese group is targeting robotics and automotive markets
Anthropic's Mythos jolts firms, but experts say risk already existed
Cybersecurity experts and artificial intelligence researchers told CNBC that the classes of flaws highlighted by Mythos can be discovered using existing models
Zcash targets quantum-proof status by 2027 as privacy coin races to outrun next-generation computers
The project will roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within weeks before a full transition to cryptography designed to resist attacks from quantum hardware
Google moves AlphaEvolve from lab to real-world deployment after year of development
The Gemini-powered agent has improved disaster prediction accuracy, accelerated drug discovery and helped stabilise power grids in simulations
Nvidia takes $2.1bn stake option in former bitcoin miner IREN to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres
The deal includes a $3.4bn cloud computing contract and positions IREN's Texas campus as a flagship site for Nvidia's DSX factory architecture.
Arm's record quarter exposes the tension at the heart of its AI ambitions
The chip designer delivered its strongest results ever, but investors are asking whether a company built on licensing can credibly sell its own silicon into a market where its biggest customers are also its fiercest competitors
Hackers hijack Canvas login pages to demand ransom from thousands of schools worldwide
ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 275 million records from Instructure and threatened to leak billions of private messages unless paid by 12 May
AWS data centre overheating knocks out Coinbase trading and disrupts cloud services
A cooling failure at Amazon's flagship Virginia facility caused power loss and hardware damage, with recovery taking longer than expected
Meta warns Canada's surveillance bill would conscript tech firms as government spyware agents
The social media giant told MPs that Bill C-22 could force companies to break encryption and install government surveillance tools on their systems
Google launches screenless Fitbit Air
The Air follows Google’s acquisition of Fitbit five years ago
The $10 trillion race: How Nvidia and Alphabet are powering, and profiting from, the AI industrial revolution
The chipmaker and the search giant have added trillions of dollars in market value in under three years, driven by a capital expenditure cycle unlike anything in the history of technology
GLP-1s reduce heavy drinking in people with obesity
A randomized trial in The Lancet found semaglutide cut heavy drinking days more than placebo in adults with alcohol use disorder and obesity.