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The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI […]

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Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next

Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. […]

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OpenAI wants ChatGPT to see your bank account. The pitch is convenience. The risk is everything else.

OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT, letting subscribers connect their bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios, and loan accounts to the chatbot and ask questions grounded in their actual financial data. The feature, released on 15 May, is available in preview to US-based ChatGPT Pro subscribers on web and iOS, with support […]

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Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money

  Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy. The money, a mix of grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support, will fund programmes in global health, life sciences, education, […]

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China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

  For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]

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Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.

Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he and Xi Jinping discussed AI guardrails and […]

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Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by Euan Blair, said on Friday it had raised $70m in primary funding led by Schroders Capital, at a $2.1bn valuation. Existing investors, […]

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Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors were net sellers of $82 million worth of Palantir shares, […]

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Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing

The name is the tell. Graphon AI, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $8.3 million in seed funding, is named after a mathematical object that most people in AI have never heard of and that its two most prominent advisors helped invent. A graphon is the limit of a sequence of dense graphs: a […]

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BCG is training its AI sales agent on what not to do – and that might be the smarter bet

  Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG’s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches […]

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