AI & Machine Learning

The Athletic’s Hannah Vanbiber discussed how technology has changed the World Cup with the implementation of tools like 3-D A.I. avatars, goalkeeper line-of-sight cameras, and Connected Ball Technology.

Excessive regulation could hamper innovation and harm savers

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, is planning to enter the silicon business, according to Reuters. Citing three people familiar with the matter, Reuters writes that DeepSeek has been working on a move into silicon for about a year. It has

IT weaknesses could be exploited by frontier models in a ‘matter of minutes’, say ECB and ESRB

Some market watchers are puzzled that shares in Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company have stalled out despite major interest from Wall Street.

North American venture investment hit all-time highs in the first half of 2026, driven by late-stage megarounds for AI industry leaders, Crunchbase data shows. If that introductory sentence sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the same storyline we reported for the first quarter, when OpenAI drove investment to stratospheric heights with the largest venture round of

In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones autonomously fly through the skies to drop off orders at customers’ homes, the idea of general-purpose robots helping humans with various tasks in workplaces or even homes may not seem far-fetched. But that future hinges on

South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly profits Tuesday thanks to the global AI infrastructure buildout coupled with a memory chip shortage. Also in this edition, oil futures rise as tensions reignite in the Hormuz Strait and Canada commits to its biggest-ever defence contract. Finally, Cuba experiences its third nationwide blackout of the year

Gaming unit under pressure from weak margins and the industry’s sharp hardware downturn

Investor concerns about massive investments outweigh April-to-June earnings fuelled by high memory chip prices