There is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could “kill all humans,” an Anthropic safety researcher said on Tuesday, hours after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are “gambling with our lives.” The comments underscore growing concerns among those at the heart of AI development that…
ASML’s Assia Haddou shows CNBC’s Katie Tarasov a High NA chipmaking machine in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on April 24, 2025. Magdalena Petrova Samsung and TSMC, the world’s two biggest chipmakers, have committed to using ASML‘s High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, as demand grows for more advanced chips. ASML’s EUV lithography machines are critical tools…
At a July protest against data centers in Lubbock, Texas, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller took the microphone to share his concerns about data center land grabs in his home state. But what he said could apply to what’s happening in dozens of states across the U.S. “When [data centers] first started popping up, nobody…
In September 2025, Olivia Tai trekked to Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco with a makeshift box, blank notecards and a cardboard sign with a message scrawled in Sharpie: “Confessions Box: Tell Me Your AI Secret.” She set up her DIY confessions booth on a sidewalk and hid out of sight, waiting for passersby to…
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai (R) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (left) during a keynote speech for Computex 2025 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall in Taipei on May 20, 2025. I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty Images Shares of MediaTek closed 10% higher on Tuesday after the Taiwanese chip firm announced a partnership…
Putilich | Istock | Getty Images Analysts and pundits in finance have an endless supply of clever, simplistic explanations for complex market movements. Over the years, culprits have ranged from El Niño and climate change to the World Trade Organization, rock ‘n’ roll music and the fluoridation of water. Many of these explanations proved wrong, yet commentators…
Somewhere in Chicago, one 40-year-old project director spent her summer wondering if she’s been working with a human or a bot. She was recently put on a project with an artificial intelligence expert who started using AI agents to manage his inbox. But in the course of their partnership, the bots began filtering out important…
A man walks past the Alibaba logo displayed at its booth during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, China July 16, 2025. Florence Lo | Reuters Meta wants to lead in open-source AI. China’s Alibaba just reminded the U.S. tech giant how competitive the market is. On Monday, the Chinese tech giant launched…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta said it would open source its most powerful AI models and…
SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images SK Hynix said on Friday it will invest 54 trillion Korean won ($38.1 billion) to build two new memory chip manufacturing plants, as demand for the components, which are key to…
