UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M

UK tech startups are being urged to take bold risks, by the UK’s AI minister, saying the government will back them, as a UK chip startup pledges to invest £100m in its business. The call comes as th…

Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO 

Bhusri said in a statement that the company’s next chapter would be focused on AI.

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing Moltbook, an online hangout populated by AI agents interacting with one another, as a glimpse into the future. It appeared to show…

Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally

Cursor, an AI-assisted development environment, essentially an IDE, is being used by Nvidia internally to boost coding efficiency. Cursor says the Green Team’s internal code commits have tripled since its implementation wh…

Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter, is here

For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy needs. And our reporters have looked closely at how generative tools are being used for tasks such as coding and running scientific experiments.  But how is AI actually being used in fields like health care, climate tech, education,…

MuseCool is using audio AI to fix the biggest problem in music education

Music education hasn’t changed much in generations. Children still attend weekly lessons, practise inconsistently at home, and teachers rely largely on instinct rather than measurable data. But now a …

Darren Aronofsky’s AI-generated series faces harsh backlash online

Darren Aronofsky’s new AI-generated series is drawing intense criticism for distorted visuals and awkward storytelling, sparking fresh debate on whether AI filmmaking is ready for prime time.
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Nvidia says it didn’t use pirated books to train its AI models — company asking for Anna’s Archive suit to be dismissed

Nvidia is pushing back against claims that it trained AI models on pirated books, telling a federal court that alleged contact with Anna’s Archive doesn’t amount to proof of copyright infringement.

Moltbook was peak AI theater

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed! Launched on January 28 by Matt Schlicht,…