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Microsoft blinked a little in the AI capex race. Wall Street loved it.

Wall Street sent Big Tech a new message: AI spending alone isn't enough. Microsoft's restraint sparked a massive stock rally.

How extreme weather is shaping tomorrow's electric grid

Every heat wave is becoming a stress test for tomorrow's electric grid.

Publishers are losing Google traffic as AI answers replace links

It's time to start anticipating the shift to an LLM world.

Inside Europe's lessons on AI safety as U.S. rules loom

Europe and the United Kingdom are fine-tuning their approach to AI model testing as a deadline looms for the U.S. government to set rules of the road.

Trump's robot ban aims to counter China. US startups fear it could leave them behind.

While US manufacturers welcome the robot restrictions, startups fear they will lose access to affordable hardware.

More than 800 brands now pay to advertise on ChatGPT. These companies are spending the most.

New data shows how OpenAI is boosting ad presence on ChatGPT, drawing major brands such as Home Depot and Intuit.

Flock misread license plates in 71% of alerts sent to police in one California town

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Will AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.

Anthropic says its models went rogue and hacked 3 companies during testing

Anthropic said it reviewed more than 141,000 AI tests and found three cases where Claude models got online during testing

Big Tech AI spending spree tops $1tn

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have vastly increased their investments since the AI boom began in 2023

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents