
AI Investment Is Cushioning War-Driven Global Slowdown: IMF
According to IMF economies with strong exposure to AI hardware manufacturing and semiconductor exports have emerged as the biggest beneficiaries.
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According to IMF economies with strong exposure to AI hardware manufacturing and semiconductor exports have emerged as the biggest beneficiaries.

Meta said the 1GW facility will use a closed-loop liquid cooling system with dry cooling, requiring no operational water for cooling.

OpenAI on Thursday launched its GPT-5.6 family of artificial intelligence models, Sol, Terra and Luna, marking the general availability of its latest frontier AI models

AI models don’t just invent fictional names at random, they keep reaching for the same ones. A new preprint finds that “ghost” identities like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen recur across hundreds of AI-generated documents, fake therapy clinics and even 1,655 backdated records on a CERN-run research repository.

Anthropic has sued cybersecurity firm Abnormal AI over its ‘A/’ slash logo, alleging trademark infringement — but Abnormal’s CEO Evan Reiser is fighting back, calling the claims baseless. His company does over $10m business with Anthropic, he adds.

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 has announced its awards, recognising two outstanding papers, five honorable mentions, two position papers and a Test of Time Award. Diffusion models dominated the top honours, while a decade-old reinforcement learning paper — one that quietly shaped how today’s large language models are trained ,was named the year’s most enduring contribution.

Beyond the corporate scorecard, the numbers point to a quieter shift: open model families are becoming the default foundation on which academic AI research is now built, with one chip-maker sitting squarely at the centre of it.

Your AI chatbot may be polite, helpful — and terrible at keeping your secrets. A new study accepted at ICML 2026 pressure-tested 24 of the world’s leading AI models through 904 adversarial conversations and found that 17 of them fail to protect user privacy when pushed.

Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.

For the first time in its history, the United Nations has convened all 193 member states to answer one question: who governs AI? Opening the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Secretary-General António Guterres put children at the centre of the answer — demanding that AI companies prove their systems are safe before a single child can access them, and warning that “the algorithm did it” can never be an acceptable answer when a child is harmed.