Albania hires AI minister to keep crooks at bay
Humanity has failed
Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama has appointed a new Cabinet member who cannot be bribed, threatened or buttered up because she is an AI bot.
Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring
Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.
Anthropic’s Claude falls flat on its face
Developers forced to code like cavemen
Panic erupted among developers yesterday when Anthropic’s Claude went belly up for half an hour, forcing them to write code using their own brains.
ASML throws €1.3 billion at French AI startup Mistral
Chip kit giant buys into Europe’s AI dream
Dutch chip equipment outfit ASML has splashed out €1.3 billion to become the biggest shareholder in French AI startup Mistral, which is raising €1.7 billion at a valuation of nearly €12 billion.
UK government Copilot trial finds no productivity boost
Microsoft’s AI assistant slows down more complex work
A UK government test of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has shown that the AI helper does not deliver the productivity miracle promised in Vole's glossy marketing.