Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview at Anthropic’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Monday released two new artificial intelligence models, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, as the company readies for a potentially…
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has plowed Nvidia’s windfall into AI startups and labs that spend the money on his chips, a circular arrangement that could spread any trouble across the industry (Kent NISHIMURA) Nvidia chief Jensen Huang sits at the center of the artificial intelligence boom, and the spy scandal that erupted over the weekend…
Something new is happening in the world of video games. On that much at least, we can mostly agree. A new generation of agentic AI coding tools has unleashed a tsunami of mash-ups and ports and reverse-engineered remakes that have been generating nonstop headlines over the past six weeks. You know the ones: Halo playable…
Less than you might think, but a 16GB PC will only take you so far. RSplaneta/Shutterstock Download Ollama or LM Studio, pick a model, and within a matter of minutes, you can be up and running with a local chatbot. There’s no subscription fee, it works without an Internet connection, and none of…
The race to dominate artificial intelligence is creating an unusual scramble in the energy market, with technology companies hunting for equipment that was never originally meant to power data centres.From second-hand gas turbines to retired aircraft jet engines, companies are exploring unconventional ways to secure electricity as the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure runs into…
Nvidia (NVDA) is investigating its own CEO. Google is busy building the chips that could take its customers. Nvidia quickly sunk 8% after the opening bell Monday, trading at its lowest level since March, as its board looks into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. Alphabet (GOOGL) is up about 3%. It’s…
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has dominated the semiconductor market throughout the artificial intelligence (AI) revolutions. Its graphics processing units (GPUs) are essential infrastructure for companies developing generative AI models. Naturally, investors are focusing on competitors like Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), both of which make their own GPU and CPU architectures. However,…
Congress returns with a big to-do list after a Democratic sweep of the midterms. Nvidia opens an investigation after its CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy. And condemnation in Philadelphia over a boycott targeting Jewish-owned restaurants. Here’s what to know today. Big tasks await as Congress returns after Democratic wins FOR SUBSCRIBERS What’s ahead…
When Alexander Tsado worked at Nvidia as an engineer, the company was already at the centre of a technology revolution. As the world’s first $5 trillion company, it had become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global race to build artificial intelligence. But while the rest of the world was rushing to secure…
The next time someone tells you that artificial intelligence, or any other new technology, is going to cure every disease, point them to the effort to fight heart attacks and strokes, which together are the largest killer in the developed world. Because again and again, pharmaceutical researchers have learned the same hard lesson: Technologies that…