Are you married to a man who's obsessed with AI? If i had to listen to another minute of my husband talking about Claude Code, I might have actually died. It was 11 pm in Berkeley, California, where I was home alone with our 10-month-old daughter, and 2 am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was visiting for his newish job in AI. "JUST LOOK AT THIS!" he shouted. The FaceTime camera zoomed toward a laptop sitting on a hotel bed. I still had to take the dog out. "ARE YOU LOOKING?" he shouted again. I was looking at our real baby. There are two babies in this household now: the small human one and the large language model.

The trial between the CEOs makes the AI boom seem sordid and small. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are two of the most influential people in Silicon Valley, if not the world. Between the two of them, Musk and Altman run technology companies worth many trillions of dollars that promise to reshape civilization. But this morning, both sat under fluorescent lights in a courthouse in downtown Oakland, suffering through all manner of technical glitches as their respective attorneys kicked off the long-awaited trial in . As Steven Molo, a lawyer for Musk, began his opening argument, confused looks swept the courtroom.

Australia's AI boom may revive productivity, CBA says Cabinets housing servers inside a data hall at a NextDC data center in Sydney. The company partnered with OpenAI last December to build a large-scale computing cluster in Sydney. Australia has become the world's third-largest artificial intelligence investment destination behind the U.S. and China, a result that's set to spur productivity in an economy currently struggling with a low potential growth rate and high inflation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia says. CBA's updated estimates suggest that Australia's data center pipeline is closer to 6 gigawatt, or 150 billion Australian dollars ($105 billion), implying installed capacity could more than triple over the period to 2030, according to a research note released Monday by economists led by Luke Yeaman. Shares in Australian data centers jumped following the report, with Goodman Group rising as much as 6.9%, the most since Dec. 23.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg plans to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence (AI) projects this year, even as other executives warn of a potential bubble in the industry. During a call with financial analysts on Wednesday to discuss the Facebook-owner's 2025 financial results, the company said it expects to spend up to $135bn (£97bn) this year, mostly on infrastructure related to AI. That is nearly twice the $72bn Meta spent last year on AI projects and infrastructure. In the last three years, the technology giant has spent roughly $140bn in an attempt to get ahead of the AI boom. Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that he is expecting 2026 to be the year that AI dramatically changes the way we work.

The government has launched a series of free AI training courses designed to help people learn how to use the technology at work. The online lessons give advice on things such as how to prompt chatbots or use them to assist with admin tasks. Many of the courses are free, with others subsidised, and the government aims to reach 10 million workers by 2030 - calling it the most ambitious training scheme since the launch of the Open University in 1971. But the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned workers will need to know more than just how to prompt a chatbot as the workforce adapts to the growth of AI. Skills for the age of AI can't be reduced to short technical courses alone, said Roa Powell, senior research fellow at the IPPR.

Tech giant ASML has reported a quarterly record in orders of its chip-making equipment, boosting hopes for the sustainability of the artificial intelligence boom and countering fears of an investment bubble. The Dutch firm said on Wednesday that it booked orders worth 13.2 billion euros ($15.8bn) in the final quarter of 2025, more than half of which were for its most advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. Net sales came to 9.7 billion euros in the October-December period, ASML said, taking sales for all of 2025 to 32.7 billion euros. Net profit for the year was 9.6 billion euros, up from 7.6 billion euros in 2024. ASML Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet said the company's chip-making customers had conveyed a "notably more positive assessment" of the market situation in the medium term based on expectations of strong AI-related demand.

Winners will emerge from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom, but there will be carnage along the way, the boss of a US tech giant has warned. Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems, told the BBC the technology will be bigger than the internet, but the current market is probably a bubble and some companies won't make it. Cisco, one of the world's leading technology companies, is behind some of the critical IT infrastructure enabling day-to-day use of AI. Robbins said some jobs will be changed, or even eliminated, by AI, particularly in areas like customer services where companies will need fewer people, but urged workers to embrace, not fear, the technology. His comments follow a series of warnings over the recent surge in investment in AI, with some claiming the sector amounts to a bubble set to burst, rocking markets and bankrupting companies.

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China's AI Boom. How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country's homegrown AI revolution. When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was just one of the thousands of generative AI tools that have been released in China since 2023--and there's a public archive of every single one of them. Here are 23 ways China is rewiring the future .

Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to pop? Here's what history says. Investors are increasingly asking if we're living through another financial bubble that's destined to burst. As the artificial intelligence trade continues to push the stock market to new highs, investors are increasingly asking if we're living through another financial bubble that's destined to burst. The S&P 500 Index jumped 16% in 2025, with AI winners Nvidia, Alphabet, Broadcom and Microsoft contributing the most. But at the same time, concerns are mounting about the hundreds of billions of dollars Big Tech has pledged to spend on AI infrastructure. Capital expenditures from Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta Platforms are expected to rise 34% to roughly $440 billion combined over the next year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. As technologists race to accelerate AI's progress with minimal guardrails, they are being met with increasing resistance from a powerful global contingent: Christian leaders and their congregations. Christians are not a monolith by any means. But this year, Christian leaders across sects--including Catholics, Evangelicals, and Baptists--sounded the alarm on AI's potential impact on family, human relationships, labor, and the church itself.