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The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its st
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautiou
Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendum Andy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit ( Report, 11 October ) and the warning by the MI5 chief, Ken McCallum, ag
The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
Prosecutors argue Abdulrahman Alfozan should continue to be detained in the US due to his ‘considerable support from a foreign government’
Join us for a live Ask an Expert Q&A with Richard Waters, the FT’s tech writer at large, and George Hammond, the FT’s venture capital correspondent, at 8am (PDT)/4pm (BST) on Thursday October 22
Ex-OpenAI worker accused of bugging conference room planned to fly to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say
From eerie driverless tractors to precision spraying and sowing, AI is transforming America’s agricultural life
Exclusive: Using test accounts acting as 13-year-olds, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter’s Pennsylvania high school was making AI
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and