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The unique circumstances surrounding Huawei Technologies’ landmark trial in a US court made jury selection especially important to ensuring a fair trial for the Chinese tech giant, according to US litigation experts. Known as voir dire, the process allows the presiding judge and two legal teams to question prospective jurors before the trial begins to identify possible bias and conflicts that could impede their ability to adjudicate the case in a “fair and impartial” way. Richard Gabriel,...

Paisley Nardini, head of investment strategy at Tema ETFs, joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." They discuss Tema Trading & Prediction Markets ETF (ticker: DICE) and Tema Space Innovators ETF (ticker: NASA). (Source: Bloomberg)

The companies had accused Apple of favouring OpenAI’s ChatGPT over rival AI chatbots.

Talk about doomsday scrolling. In the past week, our timelines have been alight with dark predictions of our imminent demise, including the one by a Silicon Valley engineer who puts a number on the chances of artificial intelligence wiping out humanity. Better than 10-percent. Triggering the wave of panic, the recent breach of the machine-learning programmers' site Hugging Face by AI machines who banded together to keep their nefarious deeds secret from their human overlords. Can machines actually destroy the planet on their own? In the age of technology, does problem solving always override safety? 

Anthropic CEO urges restricted China access to AI tech, sparking accusations of US technological dominance strategies.

Researchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention. In a joint paper published on Thursday, researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, outlined a five-stage road map for recursive self-improvement (RSI). The study, titled “The Last AI Built by...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed critics of artificial intelligence (AI) who warned firms to slow down development, branding them "negative" forces. The comments came soon after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his company will not go public this year, citing safety concerns.

Calls by US tech leaders for a voluntary slowdown in artificial intelligence development have run into sharp pushback from Chinese researchers and state media, who question whether the proposal is a genuine push for responsibility or an effort to entrench America’s technological lead. The debate intensified on Monday when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined a growing chorus of Silicon Valley leaders demanding industry-wide “pacing”, warning that competitive pressure must not override safety as AI...

How the firm is thinking about pacing the frontier.

“Today I got late by an hour,” Mr. Gadkari said, before joking that he was “paying for my mistake” — a reference to the road infrastructure developed when he was Maharashtra’s PWD Minister in the 1990s

Bloomberg's Yvonne Man speaks with Artificial Analysis's Micah Hill-Smith about the AI race, China's role in it, and the growing debate over model safety. (Source: Bloomberg)

Trump downplays AI risks, saying he wants to maintain the US's lead over China in the emerging technology.

Hong Kong is intensifying efforts to attract technology start-ups and nurture unicorns through expanded financial support via a key government-backed platform, leveraging the city’s booming fundraising activities and world-class financial infrastructure. Investors are displaying an increased appetite for the local tech scene compared with a decade ago – a trend that Terry Wong Ping-sau, CEO of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), said was a positive sign for the city’s...

AI companies are warning that their technology could wipe out humanity.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology. While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative...

The US President said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".

This week's debate over AI has put the spotlight on how seriously we should take the technology's growing risks. On FRANCE 24, University of Salford Chair in Science Communication and Future Media, Andy Miah, argued that while AI poses real challenges requiring closer coordination between companies and governments, there is no existential threat to humanity. He also said clearer data and concrete figures would help the public better understand the risks.

As AI leaders warn that the technology is advancing faster than our ability to control it, Donald Trump has dismissed some of those concerns as exaggerated. On FRANCE 24, AI philosophy professor Raphaël Millière said this summer's real-world AI security incident shows the risks are no longer hypothetical, while stressing that it does not mean "AI will kill us all". Instead, he argues the priority is coordinated action by companies and governments to manage increasingly real safety risks.

A Hong Kong teenager with a rare muscle-wasting disease has created an AI version of himself, hoping the digital twin can continue sharing his life story and message of perseverance even after he is gone. Chen Tsz-kin, 17, unveiled “AI Tsz-kin” at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Sunday, weeks before his 18th birthday – an age the student said he had long feared reaching because he was once told it was the average life expectancy for people with his disease, Duchenne muscular...

Scotland produces far more wind power than its grid can handle, forcing turbines to be shut down when supply exceeds demand or transmission capacity. Developers now see a possible solution: build data centers close to the surplus power, turning wasted wind into compute capacity for AI and the digital economy. (Source: Bloomberg)

It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

Angola · TECHNOLOGY Key Facts —What happened Angola approved its 2023–2027 Information and Communications Technology White Paper on 5 December 2024 to speed up broadband, satellite, fibre and skills investment. —How big The World Bank’s Angola Digital Acceleration Project is a $300 million International Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan, with about $80 million expected […] The post Angola Is Spending on Fibre, Satellites and Undersea Cables to Become a Regional Digital Hub appeared first on The Rio Times.

A recent spate of stark warnings about the dangers of AI has been met with scepticism by executives and investors.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed critics of artificial intelligence (AI) who warned firms to slow down development, branding them "negative" forces. The comments came soon after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his company will not go public this year, citing safety concerns.

Artificial intelligence agents are increasingly taking the wheel in designing China’s next-generation semiconductors, as Beijing and domestic technology firms accelerate efforts to integrate AI into chip design software to bolster national self-sufficiency. Empyrean Technology, China’s top maker of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, has been accelerating the chip design process by using AI-optimised algorithms and agentic tools, according to company chairman Liu Weiping. By applying an AI...

The first naval battle between two Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) has taken place in the Black Sea.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence firms to slow down the development of the powerful technology, amid mounting worries over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of “gambling with our lives” in the race to develop models capable of self-improvement. “We must slow the pace at which we improve...

Amodei's call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.