Billionaire investor says US stocks are in ‘very similar’ position as lead-up to internet bust at turn of millennium
Breakthrough suggests artificial intelligence’s appetite for energy may not be as insatiable as previously thought
Companies are looking into the ways in which AI can reduce humanity’s impact on areas such as agriculture, healthcare and environmental conservation
Generative AI adoption is growing, but immediate returns remain elusive. A long-term strategy focused on implementation and value creation is key to unlocking its potential. Despite the early maturity of most organisations’ GenAI journey,
Chinese tech champion Huawei has emerged as Nvidia’s primary competitor in China for inference chips. The Financial Times has previously reported that it has been working with AI companies, including DeepSeek, to adapt models trained on Nvidia GPUs to run inference on its Ascend chips.
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SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal that would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a huge new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.
“The Financial Times’s months-old AI-powered paywall has helped improve key subscription business metrics, such as average revenue per user and lifetime value … But it hasn’t led to more readers converting into subscribers. In fact, the conversion rate dropped 10% since the paywall has rolled out in the past year.” —SS
This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Tech in 2025 — China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’’
including a new AI device, according to people familiar with the discussions. SoftBank also invested in OpenAI during a $6.6bn fundraising round in October, which valued the start-up at $157bn, and the Financial Times reported the Japanese group planned to ...
Virgin Money’s AI-powered chatbot has reprimanded a customer who used the word “virgin”, underlining the pitfalls of rolling out external artificial intelligence tools.