Artificial Intelligence
IBM shares suffered their worst day in 25 years after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could modernise COBOL – the language still behind 95% of US ATM transactions – in quarters rather than years, stoking fears AI will erode IBM’s mainframe business.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have built ReAAP, a reconfigurable processor that pairs a smart software compiler with adaptable hardware to run deep neural networks up to 5.7x faster than a leading GPU and 3.3x faster than an ARM CPU.
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
The US Department of Defense has tapped Argonne spin-out Parallel Works to link its supercomputing centres to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle through one secure platform – speeding up the AI and simulation workloads now reshaping defence research.
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
Researchers warn that AI capabilities are increasingly discovered rather than designed, and that the window to understand how these black-box systems reason is closing as their influence grows.
A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
Anthropic is lobbying the White House to reverse a foreign-access ban on its Mythos and Fable 5 models — a ban reportedly set in motion after Amazon’s CEO raised concerns with the Trump administration.
Complying with a Trump-administration export-control directive, Anthropic has suspended all foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — and disabled the models for everyone, including US users.
Anthropic has made Fable 5, the first commercial model from its advanced Mythos class, available to the public — while reserving the unrestricted Claude Mythos 5 for vetted cybersecurity partners.