Dismissing claims of a 'dangerous breakthrough' at OpenAI, Microsoft President Brad Smith said a breakthrough in super-intelligent AI was not likely this year

A letter written by staff researchers to the OpenAI board of directors, in the days before Altman's dismissal, warned of an AI discovery that ‘could threaten humanity’

Analysts say investors looking to sue the ChatGPT-maker will have a 'weak case' as the company's structure insulates the board, even from decisions that backfire

Dozens of OpenAI staffers have reportedly announced internally that they are quitting the company, and many of them have taken to X to say the firm is "nothing without its people"

"The shelving is a surprise and makes us wonder if there are issues behind the scenes that we aren't aware of," one analyst said, but news that Jack Ma's family trust was selling shares likely also hurt the stock

Tencent is the second large Chinese technology company to look for domestic alternatives to Nvidia amid tightening US sanctions

China is changing its approach to AI amid a slowdown and debt crisis in its real estate sector — which has accounted for nearly a quarter of the country’s economic output

The three, along with 26 other other signatories signed the "Bletchley Declaration" at the AI Safety Summit in Britain on Wednesday

Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Baidu, had placed orders worth billions for 2024 and Nvidia had planned to deliver some of them by mid-November

Up until now Japan, the US and countries in Southeast Asia have taken a more hands-off approach than the EU and Canada to AI innovation

Foxconn boss Liu Young-way said the new cutting-edge data centres could be used to help self-driving cars learn

‘Five Eyes’ intelligence chiefs from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand say Beijing has built an unprecedented espionage programme