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OpenAI Lifts Planned Compute Spending to $750 Billion Through 2030
OpenAI has raised its projected compute spending through 2030 to roughly $750 billion, up from about $600 billion earlier this…
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Anthropic and Blackstone Launch ‘Ode with Anthropic’ to Bet Big on AI Implementation
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman officially launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services company built on…
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SAP Completes Prior Labs Acquisition to Build European Frontier AI Lab for Tabular Data
SAP has completed its acquisition of Prior Labs, a pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) known for its TabPFN model…
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Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million Series C to Scale AI Drug Discovery Platform
Chai Discovery raised a $400 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in…
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The Future of AI Depends on Sharing Innovation, Not Restricting It
This Xinhua commentary argues that AI’s future depends on international cooperation and open innovation rather than restrictive, unilateral policies. It…
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China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Nathan Gardels argues that China is gaining geopolitical influence by releasing open-weight AI models freely, while the US concentrates on…
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AI Is Rapidly Changing Education and Research Needs To Keep Up
Stacey Alicea and Meghan McCormick argue that traditional randomized controlled trials move too slowly to evaluate fast-evolving AI education tools.…
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China’s Crackdown on AI Companions Won’t Fill the Emotional Void
Phoebe Zhang writes that China’s new regulations, imposed on July 15, 2026, restrict AI companion services out of concern for…
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What AI Companions Do to Our Deepest Psychological Needs
Sefik Tagay examines how AI companions affect well-being through a framework of six fundamental human needs: safety, belonging, autonomy, competence,…
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If You Flirt With an AI Companion, Does That Count as Cheating?
A study of 1,815 Canadian adults found that roughly half consider a partner’s use of a romantic AI companion to…
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The Missing Ingredient for European Tech Sovereignty
Giorgos Verdi argues that Europe’s dependence on US technology firms is both an economic and strategic vulnerability that the European…
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Superintelligence Soon: How Seriously Should I Take the AI 2040 Scenario?
This AEI commentary critically analyzes the AI Futures Project’s ‘AI 2040: Plan A’ scenario, which proposes delaying superintelligence until 2040…