Funding, strategy, regulation and the economics of AI.
Its financial stability committee says AI hyperscalers made up 47% of sterling corporate bond issuance this year, and that a rethink of AI’s payoff could hit sovereign debt markets.
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The system, run by Tiger Analytics, weighs local willingness to pay and rivals' menus. McDonald's calls it "a tool, not a mandate"; some franchisees describe pressure to follow it.
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The chipmaker is buying a world-model lab that it backed alongside Nvidia in February, and Li becomes its chief scientist. AMD frames the deal around its chip roadmap.
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Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue back a personal AI agent that works through its own phone and computer. The start-up is still in early access and has not shared user numbers.
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The British AI cloud firm’s convertible notes turn into shares when it lists. Its filing shows most of its $103bn contract book depends on Microsoft and Anthropic.
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The insurers' association says more patients were billed as complex without getting more treatment. Hospitals answer that their patients really are sicker, and that insurers use AI too.
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Brad Smith says Microsoft is keeping every investment it planned before the conflict began on February 28 and adding to them: more than $10 billion across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait by 2030, plus $400 million for cables.
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The CMA has reversed January’s exclusion of chatbots from the search choice screens Google must show Android and Chrome users, and kept the annual prompt Google objected to. Consultation closes October 9.
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The bills signed on Monday create separate electricity tariffs for loads of 75 megawatts and more, require water-use disclosure before local approval, and pull data centres out of blanket environmental-review exemptions.
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Data Center Watch now counts 843 local opposition groups in 49 states. The dollar figure fell from the first quarter, yet more than half of newly tracked projects ran into trouble.
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A reverse-engineering report describes a year-long cookie that travels from ChatGPT to advertisers' websites and back to OpenAI. OpenAI's own documentation confirms the pixel; the account link is not yet proven.
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