Posts by Mike Knight
Amazon Targets Perplexity Over AI Shopping Assistant Comet
Amazon has accused AI startup Perplexity of illegally accessing its e-commerce systems through its agentic shopping assistant, Comet, marking one of the first major legal tests of how autonomous AI tools interact with major online platforms. Perplexity and Comet Perplexity is a fast-growing Silicon Valley AI company valued at around $18 billion and known for…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Fake Marketplace Reveals AI Agents Still Struggle
Microsoft has built a synthetic online marketplace to stress test AI agents in realistic buying and selling scenarios, but the early results appear to have revealed how fragile even the most advanced models remain when faced with complex, competitive environments. Why Microsoft Built A Fake Marketplace Magentic Marketplace is Microsoft’s new open source simulation environment…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s ‘Humanist Superintelligence’ For Medical Diagnosis
Microsoft has launched a new research division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, aiming to build artificial intelligence systems that surpass human capability in specific fields, beginning with medical diagnostics. AI For “Superhuman” Performance in Defined Area The new team sits within Microsoft AI and is led by Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s AI chief, with Karen…
Read MoreUK’s First Renewable-Powered Sovereign AI Cloud
Argyll Data Development has signed a landmark deal with AI infrastructure company SambaNova to build the UK’s first sovereign AI cloud in Scotland, powered entirely by renewable energy, marking a major step towards sustainable data sovereignty and low-carbon artificial intelligence. Who Is Behind The Project? Two companies from opposite sides of the Atlantic are joining…
Read MoreWorld’s First $5 Trillion Company
Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries. Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter? Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming…
Read MoreBrands Pay To Be Recommended By AI, Not Google
The Prompting Company has raised $6.5 million to help businesses get mentioned in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, signalling a major shift in how people now discover products online. Who Is The Prompting Company? The Prompting Company is a young, Y Combinator-backed startup (Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator)…
Read MoreMicrosoft Accusedly Misleads Over Copilot Prices
Australian regulators have taken Microsoft to court, alleging the company misled around 2.7 million Microsoft 365 users by implying they had to accept a higher-priced AI-powered plan or cancel altogether, while failing to reveal a cheaper alternative that was still available. What Happened and Why? The case focuses on Microsoft’s handling of its consumer subscription…
Read MoreWhatsApp Introduces Passkey-Encrypted Backups
WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups, thereby letting users protect and recover their chat history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen lock instead of remembering a long password or storing a 64-digit recovery key. A Major Step in WhatsApp’s Encryption Journey WhatsApp has announced a new feature that allows users to encrypt their chat…
Read MoreOpenAI Completes Shift Into For-Profit Company
OpenAI has now finished converting itself into a for-profit public benefit corporation, while keeping a mission-led foundation on top, in what may be the most important restructuring so far in the commercial AI race. Started As Non-Profit OpenAI was originally founded (back in 2015) as a non-profit research lab with a stated mission to ensure…
Read MoreEurope’s First Underground Mine Data Centre
Europe’s first full-scale data centre built inside a working mine in northern Italy is being hailed as a landmark in sustainable digital infrastructure, combining high-performance computing with energy efficiency and circular use of underground space. Who’s Behind the Project and Where Is It? The project, known as Trentino DataMine, is being developed in the San…
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