The OpenAI Files: Ex-staff claim profit greed betraying AI safety

‘The OpenAI Files’ report, assembling voices of concerned ex-staff, claims the world’s most prominent AI lab is betraying safety for profit. What began as a noble quest to ensure AI would serve all of humanity is now teetering on the edge of becoming just another corporate…

Apple hints at AI integration in chip design process

Apple is beginning to use generative artificial intelligence to help design the chips that power its devices. The company’s hardware chief, Johny Srouji, made that clear during a speech last month in Belgium. He said Apple is exploring AI as a way to save time and…

AI adoption matures but deployment hurdles remain

AI has moved beyond experimentation to become a core part of business operations, but deployment challenges persist. Research from Zogby Analytics, on behalf of Prove AI, shows that most organisations have graduated from testing the AI waters to diving in headfirst with production-ready systems. Despite this…

Ren Zhengfei: China’s AI future and Huawei’s long game

Ask Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei for his take on AI in China and the mountain of difficulties facing his company, and you get surprising answers. “I haven’t thought about it,” says Ren, in a Q&A with Chinese media outlet People’s Daily. “It’s useless to think about…

Hugging Face partners with Groq for ultra-fast AI model inference

Hugging Face has added Groq to its AI model inference providers, bringing lightning-fast processing to the popular model hub. Speed and efficiency have become increasingly crucial in AI development, with many organisations struggling to balance model performance against rising computational costs. Rather than using traditional GPUs,…

Meta buys stake in Scale AI, raising antitrust concerns

Meta’s $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI – and the hiring of the startup’s CEO – is drawing attention to how US regulators will handle acquihire-style deals under the Trump administration. The deal gives Meta a 49% nonvoting stake in Scale AI, which hires gig workers…

Ericsson and AWS bet on AI to create self-healing networks

Ericsson’s Cognitive Network Solutions has joined forces with AWS to develop AI technologies for self-healing mobile networks. Behind every text message and video call lies a complex system that telecom companies spend billions maintaining. This partnership between Ericsson and AWS aims to make those networks not…

The concerted effort of maintaining application resilience

Back when most business applications were monolithic, ensuring their resilience was by no means easy. But given the way apps run in 2025 and what’s expected of them, maintaining monolithic apps was arguably simpler. Back then, IT staff had a finite set of criteria on which to…