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US tech stocks fall after big AI groups call for slowdown

Memory-chip makers and Nvidia slide during morning trading in New York

7 people hospitalized, 2 with critical injuries, after multi-vehicle S.F. crash

Two people were critically injured and five others hurt in a four-vehicle crash in San Francisco.

I Alone Can Fix It Strikes Again

Trump may have lost the aggression of David Sacks as AI czar, but he’s now picking up the baton. In another all-timer posted to Truth Social, Trump says the only guardrails AI needs can be provided by his “high IQ.” This comes right on the heels of AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who Trump maligns in his post, stating they want to slow down AI development for safety reasons.

One of the best documentaries about gen AI is finally coming to YouTube.

Director Valerie Veatch’s excellent Ghost in the Machine documentary digging into the origins of generative artificial intelligence is set to make its debut on the PBS Documentaries YouTube channel this evening.

Trump dismisses new AI guardrails, says there is a 'SICK conspiracy' against AI and data centers

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology was part of a “SICK conspiracy.”

How much should lenders charge hyperscalers?

Pricing equity punters’ collective histrionics in a credit context

AI companies must relinquish some of the power at their disposal

The founders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok and DeepMind have warned about the dangers, now technology needs to be human scale

Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Trump lashed out at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei following his urgent plea for an AI slowdown.

Michael Dell's family office leads $7.7bn deal to take insurance broker private

DFO Management and Sequence clinch acquisition of Baldwin Group as industry undergoes wave of consolidation

Little-known AI startup Micro1 tries to trump Google's bid for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data

In a sign of just how valuable corporate data has become to AI companies, a little-known startup has swept in to try to preempt Google’s bid to purchase decades-worth of documents, emails, and data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines. Micro1, which was founded in 2022 and is based in Palo Alto, has proposed paying $12.5 million for the trove of records, beating Google’s previous top bid of $10 million. Google itself had beaten out Mercor, which provides data to AI companies, which had bid $7.5 million.

In 1997 nobody could tell you why you'd want a gigabit connection. AI is in 1997.

Everyday AI is about to be good enough. That’s the strongest case anyone has made for Apple in two years, and it measures the wrong thing.

The politics of AI, part two

First it was data centres that concerned voters and lawmakers — now they’re worrying about the models themselves