The legendary designer behind Apple's iPhone, Jony Ive, has joined OpenAI to create devices tailored for using generative artificial intelligence, according to a video posted Wednesday by the ChatGPT maker. Ive and his team will take over design at OpenAI as part of an acquisition of his startup named "IO" valued at 6.5 billion. Sharing no details, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in the video that a prototype Ive shared with him "is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen."

SoftBank Group's investments in AI will be financed through a loan in which Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and JPMorgan Chase serve as lead underwriters -- a sign of the Japanese tech investor's ability to secure financing for its outsized ambitions. The one-year 15 billion bridge loan, one of the biggest borrowings SoftBank has pulled off to date, will be financed by 21 banks and includes 1.35 billion from Mizuho, 1.25 billion from SMBC and 1 billion from JPMorgan, according to people familiar with the matter. It also includes a combined 950 million from HSBC Holdings and Barclays and 850 million jointly from seven banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., MUFG Bank and Credit Agricole, said the people, who asked not to be named as the details of the financing remain private. Representatives of the banks also declined to comment.

Malaysia declared it'll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies chips, only to distance itself from that statement a day later, underscoring the Asian nation's delicate position in the U.S.-Chinese AI race. Deputy Minister of Communications Teo Nie Ching said in a speech Monday her country would be the first to activate an unspecified class of Huawei "Ascend GPU-powered AI servers at national scale." Malaysia would deploy 3,000 units of Huawei's primary AI offering by 2026, she said in prepared remarks reviewed by Bloomberg News. Chinese startup DeepSeek would also make one of its AI models available to the Southeast Asian country, the official added.

Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations' International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday. It found 9.6% of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5% of those carried out by men as AI increasingly takes on administrative tasks and transforms clerical jobs, such as secretarial work. Human involvement will still be required for many tasks -- and roles are more likely to be radically changed rather than eliminated, the report said. Jobs in the media, software and finance-related roles are also at the forefront of change as generative AI expands its learning abilities. "We stress that such exposure does not imply the immediate automation of an entire occupation, but rather the potential for a large share of its current tasks to be performed using this technology," the report said. It called on governments and employers' and workers' organizations to think about how AI can be used to enhance productivity and job quality.

Huawei Technologies debuted its first in-house operating system for personal computers, offering an alternative to Microsoft's Windows as China pushes to replace American technologies amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company's HarmonyOS is now ready to run on the MateBook Fold, its new foldable laptop, said the head of its consumer business, Richard Yu, on Monday. Huawei is working to make its operating system compatible with more than 2,000 apps, including the popular WeChat and QQ messaging platforms, he said. The laptop features an 18-inch organic light-emitting diode screen when opened flat. Along with the Huawei MateBook Pro and MateBook Fold Ultimate Design laptops, it will be available from June 6.

The Chinese government has accused U.S. President Donald Trump's administration of undermining recent trade talks in Geneva with its warning that using Huawei Technologies' artificial intelligence chips "anywhere in the world" would violate U.S. export controls. The U.S. Commerce Department had said in a statement last week that it was issuing guidance to make clear that the use of Huawei Ascend chips is a breach of the U.S. government's export controls. The agency said at the time that it would also warn the public about "the potential consequences of allowing U.S. AI chips to be used for training and inference of Chinese AI models." The department's statement has since changed to say that the agency was issuing guidance about "the risks of using PRC advanced computing ICs, including specific Huawei Ascend chips," stripping the "anywhere in the world" reference. PRC is the abbreviation for China's formal name, the People's Republic of China, while ICs refers to integrated circuits, or chips.

Microsoft is adding models from Elon Musk's xAI to its artificial intelligence marketplace. Grok 3, which Musk's AI outfit introduced earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft's cloud computing platform, the company said Monday. Microsoft and its biggest rivals in selling rented computing power, including Amazon and Google, are vying to be the place where AI applications are built and deployed. That has made a battleground out of the competition to host the latest models and build sophisticated controls to manage how they're used.

Sakana AI has signed a 5 billion ( 34 million) deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to automate the creation of banking documents, including credit approval memos, the companies announced Monday. "We are very happy to take on the meaningful challenge of revolutionizing banking -- a core domain of society -- with MUFG," said Ren Ito, the Japanese artificial intelligence startup's cofounder and chief operating officer. A six-month pilot phase begins in July, when MUFG's banking subsidiary will start generating documents using Sakana AI's The AI Scientist, "a fully AI-driven system" that was originally designed for automating scientific discovery, including manuscript writing and peer review.

Nvidia has unveiled the latest raft of technologies aimed at sustaining the boom in demand for AI computing -- and ensuring that its products stay at the center of the action. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang on Monday kicked off Computex in Taiwan, Asia's biggest electronics forum, touting new products and cementing ties with a region vital to the tech supply chain. The CEO introduced updates to the ecosystem around Nvidia's accelerator chips, which are key to developing and running AI services. The central goal is to broaden the reach of Nvidia products and eliminate barriers to AI adoption by more industries and countries. Nvidia is keen to shore up its place at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, at a time investors and some executives remain uncertain whether spending on datacenters is sustainable.

Beth Hyland thought she had met the love of her life on Tinder. In reality, the Michigan-based administrative assistant had been manipulated by an online scam artist who posed as a French man named "Richard," used deepfake video on Skype calls and posted photos of another man to pull off his con. Deepfakes -- manipulated video or audio made using artificial intelligence to look and sound real -- are often difficult to detect without specialized tools.