• September 5 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  US, Britain and Brussels to sign agreement on AI standards

  Growing push to regulate fast-growing technology leads to pact focused on human rights and democracy

  
• August 30 2024
  OpenAI

  OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks

  Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn

  
• August 26 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

  Money surges into the Harris campaign

  The vice president raised four times as much money as Donald Trump in July

  
• August 23 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status

  Software engineering attracts investors but making money from generative artificial intelligence still eludes many

  
• August 10 2024
  OpenAI

  Where have OpenAI’s founders gone?

  Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year

  
• August 9 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google

  Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques

  
• August 9 2024
  The Big Read

  How Microsoft spread its bets beyond OpenAI

  The tech giant has worked to execute an AI strategy independent of Sam Altman’s start-up following a leadership crisis last year

  
• August 2 2024
  InterviewLunch with the FT

  Helen Toner on the OpenAI coup: ‘It was about trust and accountability’

  The former board member who (briefly) ousted Sam Altman talks about taking on one of tech’s most powerful CEOs

  
• July 26 2024
  News in-depthRobotics

  Artificial intelligence breakthroughs create new ‘brain’ for advanced robots

  Google, OpenAI and Tesla race start-ups to develop AI robotic systems in effort to transform healthcare and manufacturing

  
• July 25 2024
  OpenAI

  OpenAI to launch ‘SearchGPT’ in challenge to Google

  Microsoft-backed group unveils prototype search tool, targeting rival’s $175bn-a-year search business

  
• July 19 2024
  ExplainerMicrosoft Corp

  What caused the huge global IT outage?

  Minor update sparks havoc among businesses that use equipment running Windows

  
• July 18 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

  Viktor Orbán’s world tour irks the EU

  Hungarian PM tells EU leaders that Donald Trump would rapidly push to end the Ukraine War

  
• July 16 2024
  Microsoft Corp

  Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff probed by UK regulator

  CMA had invited comments over tie-up as part of broader concerns about dealmaking in AI industry
• July 16 2024
  Arkady Volozh

  Yandex founder to build AI business in Europe after Russia exit

  Arkady Volozh tells the FT he will launch artificial intelligence venture Nebius mostly staffed by former Yandex employees

  
• June 26 2024
  YouTube Inc

  YouTube in talks with record labels over AI music deal

  Licensing negotiations come as industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence

  
• June 19 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces rival AI start-up

  Safe Superintelligence Inc to focus on safety and comes a month after star researcher quit the ChatGPT maker

  
• June 11 2024
  Working It20 min listen

  AI and Work: Can I send a chatbot to that meeting?

  ‘Digital twins’ could help you be in two places at once

  
• June 3 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen

  Russia-China pipeline deal stalls

  Internal divisions linger at OpenAI

  
• May 30 2024
  News in-depthOpenAI

  Internal divisions linger at OpenAI after November’s attempted coup

  Arguments over safety and Sam Altman’s leadership spill back into public domain as artificial intelligence start-up hit by resignations

  
• May 24 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  Google’s AI search tool tells users to ‘eat rocks’ for your health

  ‘Hallucinations’ in new feature provoke ridicule and raise questions about betting core business on an experimental product

  
• May 20 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  AI companies seek big profits from ‘small’ language models

  Microsoft, Meta and Google have released new versions with fewer ‘parameters’ that are cheaper to build and train

  
• May 17 2024
  The Big Read

  The race for an AI-powered personal assistant

  Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI?

  
• May 14 2024
  Google LLC

  Google advances AI vision with launch of Project Astra assistant

  Tech giant showcases series of artificial intelligence products in wake of new models by Meta and Microsoft

  
• May 9 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  TikTok to automatically label AI-generated user content in global first

  Social media companies under pressure to identify deepfakes and prevent spread of misinformation

  
• April 29 2024
  Financial Times

  FT and OpenAI strike content licensing deal

  Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models