Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying intensifies

Digital transformation minister Óscar López says ‘the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions’ as Madrid’s regulatory package moves through parliamen [...]

Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical

Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of [...]

Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ to describe what happens when people let AI think for them

A pair of Wharton researchers have put a name to something that many AI users have quietly started doing: letting chatbots make their decisions for them. Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave published a study [...]

Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra becomes the smartest open US model, but China still leads

According to benchmark platform Artificial Analysis, Nvidia's new Nemotron 3 Ultra is the most capable open AI model from the US to date.<br /> The article Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra be [...]

Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special

The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and [...]

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness [...]

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Globa [...]

The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating

Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. Th [...]

France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in

France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants build [...]