The Cryptonomist

Newly unsealed court filings have pulled back the curtain on private conversations inside Microsoft and OpenAI that read less like corporate memos and more like confessions. According to documents made public this week and reported by The New York Times and TechCrunch, employees at both companies debated internally whether scraping news content to train artificial intelligenc...

The United Nations has a data problem that has nothing to do with collecting numbers and everything to do with connecting them. For decades, agencies across the UN system have gathered some of the most trusted statistics on the planet — on health, poverty, education, water access — only to lock them inside separate databases that rarely speak to each other. On September 17, 2...

Huawei just gave itself less time to catch up with Nvidia — and that’s exactly the point. According to the company’s announcement, the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip has been moved up to the first quarter of 2027, two full quarters ahead of the original schedule. The Huawei Ascend 960DT launch, unveiled at the company’s Huawei Connect conf...

OpenAI has entered the legal industry with a dedicated tool built for lawyers, and the move signals just how serious the company is about turning artificial intelligence into a fixture of everyday law firm work. The new product, called Astra for Law, marks OpenAI’s clearest bid yet to become the default OpenAI legal AI provider for America’s largest firms, pa...

Oklo Inc. stock surged 11.3% on September 17, closing at $39.65 after opening at $36.98. The open-to-close gain approached 7.2%. The move was news-driven