An abrupt decision by American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to restrict service to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world has cast uncertainty over some Claude-dependent overseas tools backed by China’s tech giants. After Anthropic’s notice on Friday that it would upgrade access restrictions to entities “more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered…
An abrupt decision by American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to restrict service to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world has cast uncertainty over some Claude-dependent overseas tools backed by China’s tech giants. After Anthropic’s notice on Friday that it would upgrade access restrictions to entities “more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered…
The maker of Claude AI is trying to limit China’s ability to use its technology to bolster the country’s military capabilities and technology In a major policy shift, American-based AI company, Anthropic, has announced that it will stop selling its products to Chinese-owned companies and groups, as the trade war between the US and China…
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…
SenseTime has significantly narrowed its losses while achieving robust growth in its generative artificial intelligence business in the first half of 2025, as China pushes a nationwide initiative to advance the AI industry. The Hong Kong-listed company on Thursday posted revenue of 2.36 billion yuan (US$330 million) for the six months ended June 30, marking…
The foundations of Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer will work together on a new initiative. Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagens Naringsliv/Corbis via Getty Images Five of the world’s wealthiest individuals are backing a new philanthropic coalition aimed at improving the lives of low-income Americans and frontline workers. Over the next 15…
The world’s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors – lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals. In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair. Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI’s o1…
Last August, Anthropic released Artifacts. The feature allows Claude users to create small, AI-programmed apps for their own use. Today, Anthropic is making it easier to share Artifacts. At the same time, it’s making the apps you can make with the feature more powerful. To start, Artifacts now have their own dedicated space you can…