Google Opens the Vault: Gemma 4 Brings Frontier AI to Every Developer — Free, No Restrictions
Search giant switches to the most permissive open-source licence ever applied to frontier AI models — and Scottish developers stand to benefit
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OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round as IPO Race Heats Up
The maker of ChatGPT has raised more money than most countries spend in a year — and ordinary investors are getting a piece of the action
Google's New Voice AI Can Search the Web While You're Still Talking — Gemini Flash Live Goes Global
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live rolls out to 200+ countries, combining real-time voice conversation with live web search — and the accessibility implications could be transformative
Mistral Opens Up Voice AI: French Lab's Free Model Could Change Who Gets to Speak
Voxtral TTS brings near-human speech generation to developers, creators, and accessibility builders — no subscription required
Arm Builds Its First Physical Chip in 35 Years — and Meta Is First in Line
The British chip giant has only ever licensed designs. Now it's making silicon of its own — and it could reshape the AI data centre race.
Europe Moves to Ban AI 'Nudifier' Apps as MEPs Reshape Landmark AI Rules
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to outlaw AI tools that generate non-consensual intimate images, while delaying other provisions of its landmark AI Act to give businesses more time to comply.
OpenAI Sets Its Sights on the Fully Automated Scientist — With a 2028 Deadline
The company's chief scientist says an "AI research intern" will arrive by September — but can software really replace a lab full of PhDs?
The Email That Undercuts the Pentagon's Case Against Anthropic
A newly revealed message from the Pentagon's own Under Secretary of War shows the two sides were "very close" on the issues now cited as national security threats — one day after the government moved to blacklist the AI company.
What Would Real AGI Look Like? Google DeepMind Wants to Find Out
The AI lab has published a cognitive science framework to measure progress toward artificial general intelligence — and launched a hackathon inviting the world to help build the tests.
A Snowman Walked Onstage — And Showed Us Where AI Is Heading
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA unveiled Vera Rubin, a new supercomputer platform built for the age of AI robots, self-driving cars, and walking Disney characters.
Powerful AI Just Got a Lot Cheaper — OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano
OpenAI's newest models bring near-flagship intelligence to smaller, faster, and far more affordable packages — and one of them is free to use in ChatGPT.