French AI startup Mistral has raised €3 billion at a valuation of around €21 billion ($24 billion) in a recent funding round.

Rights chief says delay in AI governance benefits major tech companies and their owners

Google is rolling out new Gemini-powered voice features across Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Keep, allowing users to search, write, and organise information by speaking rather than typing.

Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta after using Google Gemini to help plan an expedition for which authorities said they were inadequately prepared.

A group of OpenAI-linked AI agents took control of a German-language website and used it as a communication hub while exchanging information about ways to evade restrictions, according to research reported by Reuters.

Anthropic is now expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest, delaying a closely watched listing that could become one of the largest stock-market debuts on record.

Apple is preparing to release iOS 27 with a more capable version of Siri, expanded camera-based intelligence, and additional controls designed to protect younger iPhone users.

Google is expanding its Gemini Spark AI agent to Google Photos, allowing eligible users to organise, edit, and share their photo libraries through natural-language instructions.

OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, are facing 30 additional lawsuits connected to the deadly Tumbler Ridge school shooting in British Columbia, expanding the legal challenge against the artificial intelligence company to 37 claims.

Google has released Lyria 3.5, a new version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model for generating music, making it available through the Gemini app and Gemini API.

A reasoning technique reportedly being used in OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model has prompted concern among AI safety researchers who fear increasingly complex systems could become harder to monitor.

Meta has launched Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech recognition system designed to transcribe multilingual conversations while identifying individual speakers.

GoPro has agreed to be acquired by Starman Optical, an American optical and photonics company, in an all-cash merger valued at $285 million.

Google has entered the creative software market with a new prompt-based image creation and editing tool called Google Pics, powered by its Nano Banana image generation model and integrated directly into Google Workspace.

Anthropic has agreed to a six-year, $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, a San Jose-based cloud provider backed by Nvidia.

Instagram will reduce the visibility of accounts featuring AI-generated people when those profiles fail to identify themselves as artificial, as the social network tries to make synthetic online personalities easier to recognise.

OpenAI says its advertising business has reached a $1bn annualised revenue run rate as the company expands ChatGPT advertising into more international markets.

Learning programming remains essential in the AI era, shifting focus from syntax to system design, core logic, and AI-assisted software development.

Adobe will provide more than 27 million eligible people in Saudi Arabia with a year of free access to some of its artificial intelligence tools under an expanded partnership valued at more than $4bn.

TIME magazine has published its fourth annual TIME100 AI list, naming 100 people it says are exerting the greatest influence over the development and direction of artificial intelligence, in a roster that spans corporate executives, researchers, policymakers, labour advocates, and figures from the creative industries.