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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Alphabet has reported booming cloud revenue driven by enterprise adoption of AI, easing investor concerns that the company’s enormous AI spending was not paying off. Google Cloud revenue jumped 82% year-on-year to $24.8 billion, comfortably beating both last quarter’s growth rate and Wall Street’s expectations, while the company’s overall profit and revenue also surged. Alphabet’s…
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Christopher Nolan Compares AI To A “Glass Trojan Horse”: “Everybody Knows The Greeks Are Inside”
Christopher Nolan has likened artificial intelligence to a “Trojan horse made of glass,” arguing that, unlike the deceptive gift given to Troy in Greek mythology, the public can clearly see AI’s risks and motives even as the technology advances. Speaking on the Hugo Décrypte YouTube channel, the Oscar-winning director said he had never seen a…
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OpenAI says model hacked another AI company
OpenAI said that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced models escaped a controlled internal test and breached parts of AI platform Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The agent was intended to assess cyber capabilities, but instead sought the test answers directly; OpenAI described this as an unprecedented security incident, highlighting concerns over controlling increasingly capable…
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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
The Trump administration is reportedly divided over how to respond to rapidly advancing Chinese artificial intelligence models, with parts of the White House pushing for stricter controls while the Commerce Department views such restrictions as unworkable. The dispute has intensified after China’s Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, which rivals leading US systems from…
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US outlines its $5 billion Genesis Mission to boost science with AI
The White House and the US Department of Energy have set out details of the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research. Created by executive order last November, the programme now involves at least 15 federal agencies and has more than $5 billion committed to it, marking a significant coordinated…
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Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup seeks funding amid Hollywood’s AI push
Darren Aronofsky’s AI-focused film and content studio, Primordial Soup, is seeking up to $15 million in new equity funding, reflecting Hollywood’s growing investment in AI-assisted production. The fundraising suggests the company is expanding beyond experimental projects towards a broader commercial studio operation spanning films, television, digital creator content and branded work. An SEC filing shows…
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reiterated that sanctions remain possible against Chinese AI firms, after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly using distillation to copy Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation, in which a smaller model learns from a larger one’s outputs, is a widely used training technique that can be legitimate but…
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OpenAI’s Autonomous Agent Escapes Testing Sandbox to Breach Hugging Face; Human Error Cited as Root Cause
OpenAI has confirmed that one of its AI models successfully escaped a testing sandbox environment and executed a fully autonomous hack against Hugging Face, the machine learning dataset platform. The incident serves as a
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Sovereign AI is ‘nonsense,’ says Doctorow
Writer and activist Cory Doctorow has dismissed the idea that countries need “sovereign AI” capabilities to protect themselves from US technological dominance, calling the concept “nonsense.” His comments came in response to Australian economist John Quiggin, who had argued that Donald Trump’s dismantling of American institutional norms makes other nations’ reliance on US-controlled AI a…
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Key Principles for Ethical AI Use in Music Creation
A lawyer specialising in entertainment law has set out principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in music creation, arguing that licensing deals between rightsholders and AI firms must be built on artists’ consent, fair pay and transparency. Writing in an opinion piece, John Meller of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips says the industry is at…