The world is focused on America’s lead but Beijing has the means, motive and opportunity to pull ahead
Lossmaking start-up commits to spending close to $1.5tn as it gobbles up processing power
Commerce department approval paves way for huge new investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Middle East
As investment rush accelerates, the winners will control inputs unlikely to be commoditised
Omar Abbosh argues technology can be transformative in education, but only if it enhances the human touch
Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft are trying to prevent ‘indirect prompt injection attacks’ by hackers
Measures aim to lure back high-skilled workers who moved abroad after 2023 war with Hamas
Legacy manufacturers seek to keep pace with advances in self-driving technology as the next competitive front
OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere have stepped up hiring for specialists to help businesses adopt their AI models
The most-used business school teaching cases tackle subjects from corporate to quirky
Music and film open us up to new ways of seeing the world — but the streaming giants offer lonely visions of culture
S&P 500 and Nasdaq post longest runs of monthly gains in years
In a week when Nvidia’s value reached $5tn, investors in even the broadest index of global companies are now heavily exposed to the AI boom
Ease of creating counterfeit documents poses risks to financial trust
The potential pay-offs of agentic commerce are huge but it also means giving away valuable data
Jumbo debt sales to fund huge artificial intelligence capex threaten to store up new risks for investors
Ecommerce giant boosts capital expenditure as it builds more data centres
And Trump’s non-deal with China
Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes reveals she held meetings with US AI firms over Online Safety Act
Gerhard Schmidt put his own money into private equity fund that bought NSO Group, and sat on board that oversaw NSO
Tech giant reports record annual profits as smartphone demand and services income pick up
Social media group sheds $200bn in market value as Mark Zuckerberg’s investment plans spook investors
There are big differences in the level of risk and likely returns of Big Tech’s spending
Tim Berners-Lee believes AI offers a chance to reset to a system that serves individuals’ needs and privacy
Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income
