Two days. That is how long Nvidia’s latest robotics model sat at the top of the RoboArena leaderboard before a startup from Hangzhou knocked it off. On Wednesday, Spirit AI announced that its foundation model for embodied intelligence, Spirit v1.6, had scored 1,924 on the benchmark, edging out Nvidia’s Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881. A second Nvidia project, DreamZero, […]

The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep pace with the technology, using the term to defend a government-backed bill that would amend Japan’s personal-data protection law to let AI developers use medical and criminal records without obtaining […]

One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up from low single digits when Claude Code launched in February 2025. […]

The conversation at this year’s NY Tech Week is about AI. The panels, the pitch decks, the happy hours: agents that code, agents that sell, infrastructure for the agents. Then a screen mounted to a truck shows a man sitting on a toilet, staring at his phone in open panic. The line underneath: “His prospect […]

Switch is trying to raise money at a valuation that would have looked implausible for a data-centre developer a few years ago. The Las Vegas company is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, according to The Information, as it moves to capitalise on the demand for the […]

Hock Tan built Broadcom by buying things. So it carried some weight when the chief executive, who assembled one of the industry’s largest chip companies through a long run of acquisitions, said dealmaking has slipped down his list of priorities. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Tan said Broadcom is […]

The gap, officials worry, let Chinese companies acquire banned chips through overseas subsidiaries. New guidance is meant to close it, after the chips may already have moved. The export ban worked on paper and leaked in practice. Trump administration officials are worried that a gap in US rules allowed Chinese companies to legally buy servers […]

The idea is unusual enough that it took a moment to register: the United States government, owning a slice of the companies building frontier AI. According to a report by NOTUS, senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about exactly that, the federal government acquiring shares in the firms at the […]

Any ecommerce brand, once you hit a certain scale, needs to have a mobile app. But knowing you want an app isn’t the hard part; getting there is. Luckily, there are hundreds of companies that specialize in helping ecommerce brands launch mobile apps, without hiring developers. The problem, however, is that not all of these tools […]

The argument is about who the AI boom is for. South Korea’s labour minister, Kim Young-hoon, has called on the country’s largest technology firms to share the windfall profits flowing from the AI-driven chip cycle, warning that record sector gains risk widening the gap between the conglomerates capturing them and everyone working below the top. […]