Southeast Asia’s AI Boom Could Be a Short-Term Sugar Rush
Southeast Asia is benefiting from the AI boom, but much of that growth is happening lower down the technology value
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Ulanqab Is Becoming a Major Hub for China’s AI Boom
Ulanqab, a city in Inner Mongolia, as an unlikely center of China’s rapidly expanding AI infrastructure. Nearly 100 data
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The AI Industry Has Fumbled Its Public Image
AI industry's public image has deteriorated sharply as the excitement surrounding generative AI has given way to concerns
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AI’s “Three-Body Problem”: No Single Player Controls the Future
AI industry is increasingly shaped by three competing forces: closed frontier-model companies, open-weight model developers and application companies
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AI “Brainrot” Memes Are Raising New Copyright Questions
AI-generated “brainrot” memes—absurd characters and short videos that spread rapidly online, including the viral Tung Tung Tung Sahur.
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AI Agents Are Making Startup Founders Work Even Longer Hours
The Wall Street Journal reports that AI agents are producing an unexpected effect inside some startups: instead of reducing founders&
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Civil Society Groups Urge the FTC to Challenge AI Companies Over Book Destruction
More than a dozen U.S. civil-society organizations are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate major AI
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AI Brainrot Is Turning Memes Into a Copyright and Ownership Fight
AI-generated “brainrot” memes—absurd, highly shareable characters and videos that spread rapidly across social platforms. Characters such as Tung
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Rogue AI Is Scary—but It May Be Fixable
The Bloomberg Opinion piece argues that the growing risk of “rogue AI” systems—AI agents that behave in unexpected or
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Tech Mahindra and ServiceNow Expand Partnership to Scale Enterprise AI
Tech Mahindra and ServiceNow have expanded their partnership through a multi-year agreement aimed at moving enterprise AI beyond experimentation
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Raghuram Rajan Proposes an “AI Tax” to Cushion Job Displacement
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has proposed an “AI tax” as one possible response to the risk that artificial intelligence
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Companies Are Reframing AI-Linked Layoffs as “Reshaping,” Not Replacement
Across corporate America, companies are becoming more cautious about explicitly saying that AI is replacing workers, even as layoffs and
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AI Is Forcing Organizations to Patch Security Vulnerabilities Faster
AI is accelerating the cybersecurity vulnerability cycle, putting pressure on organizations to identify and patch security flaws more quickly. As
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AI Is Now Deciding Who Gets Some Medicare Treatments
A new pilot programme in the United States is using AI to determine whether certain Medicare-covered treatments should be
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Asia’s AI Boom Could Widen the Divide Within Southeast Asia
The AI boom is producing a powerful economic boost across Asia, but Fortune argues that Southeast Asia may not be
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OpenAI Calls for Stronger AI Laws in California
OpenAI is pushing for stronger state-level AI regulation in California, signaling a shift in how the company approaches the
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The AI Reality Check: Enterprise Transformation Will Take Years, Not Months
The direction of enterprise AI transformation is clear, but the timeline is being badly overestimated. While headlines about increasingly capable
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AWS Is Turning AI Agents Into Marketplace Products
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building a marketplace around AI agents, reflecting a shift from buying software applications to increasingly
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The AI Consciousness Debate May Be a Trap
The increasingly serious debate over whether artificial intelligence could ever become conscious. As AI systems become more sophisticated and increasingly
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Consulting Firms Are Racing to Become AI-Native
The consulting industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation as major firms try to become “AI-native” rather than simply adding
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AI Data Centers Are Now Competing With Carmakers for Basic Electronic Components
The AI boom is creating a new kind of supply-chain problem for the automotive industry: data centers are consuming
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AI Could Help Therapists Catch Their Own Cognitive Errors
AI researcher Lance Eliot explores how generative AI could serve as a second set of eyes for mental-health therapists,
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Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy by Showing Students Where Chatbots Fail
U.S. schools are increasingly moving away from simply banning AI chatbots and toward teaching students how to use them
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AI Debt Boom Is Starting to Test Investor Appetite
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is increasingly being financed through corporate debt, and Reuters reports that investors are beginning
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