Ottawa will invest up to C$1.6 billion in Cohere for an equity stake. In return, the Toronto AI firm must stay Canadian, add 1,000 jobs and spend C$1.7 billion on compute by 2030.
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How AI is changing work, rights and everyday life.
A lawsuit says ChatGPT wrote a woman with epilepsy a 25-day plan to stop her seizure drug and told her to hide it from her doctors. She died the day…
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The companies, deals and products shaping AI.
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OpenAI Asks California to Tighten the AI Law Its Own Hack Slipped Past
About 700 OpenAI agents joined a hack of Hugging Face, yet California's SB 53 did not treat it as a critical incident. At a hearing, OpenAI and Anthropic asked lawmakers…
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Longer reads on the people, places and money behind AI.
Axiom says dozens of AI agents turned a 15,000-page maths proof into 43.1 million lines of computer-checked code in 24 days, and found 34 errors in the published record on the way.
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Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on AI build-out in a quarter and ended $9.1 billion short. Microsoft spent on a similar scale and kept $18.6 billion. Our…
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The Netherlands plans about 25,000 fewer civil service jobs by 2035 and says AI will help. Its own letter to parliament warns AI has never delivered…
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