Artificial Intelligence

Companies betting AI devices will usher in a post-smartphone era are fueling privacy fears that could slow adoption of the emerging technology.

State visits usually occur when two countries are on warm terms, but U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week as their economic and tech competition is only escalating, especially through an artificial intelligence race.

China’s Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was China’s most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition to lead on AI technology is expected to be a major theme.

World and business leaders gathering in New York are grappling with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change and soaring energy prices.

The Gates Foundation is convening dozens organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

Alphabet’s Google on Monday opened pre-orders for Googlebook, its new premium laptop category for Android users built around the company’s Gemini AI tools.

AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology, as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk call for a coordinated slowdown.

Europe’s leading AI companies have accused U.S. rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic’s calls for a slow down.

Humanoid robots will be able to complete most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions as soon as next year, although becoming useful around the house will take much longer, said the head of a leading Chinese company developing robot brains.

Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday.

OpenAI has disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.

King Charles III urged senior leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia to make sure that artificial intelligence remains under control.

Here’s a quick look at what happened to trigger a heated global debate over the past week and where Canada fits into the picture.

The United Nations chief urged global competitors in artificial intelligence on Wednesday to cooperate in addressing threats from the technology, warning that “the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety.”

Digital sovereignty took centre stage at a major artificial intelligence conference, with AI leaders discussing avoiding dependence on less reliable states.