In unusual weekend guidance, the Commerce Department said it would enforce license requirements for advanced chips to entities headquartered in China, even when the entities were located outside China.
Japan’s SoftBank Group will invest €45 billion over the next five years in a push to build up artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, the company announced on Saturday.
Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, as it seeks to expand computing capacity to meet growing demand for chatbot Claude and scale its products.
Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could have long-reaching impact for global powers.
Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.
When He Tingbo was put in charge of Huawei’s chip development in 2003, the young engineer was handed an annual budget of $400 million and a mandate that would eventually put her at the centre of China’s most consequential technology effort.