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Leading China’s mathematicians joined forces in Beijing on Sunday to launch an alliance aimed at integrating artificial intelligence into mathematical research. The Yau Laboratory Alliance for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence is being spearheaded by Fields medallist Shing-Tung Yau, who warned that China was lagging behind the United States in using AI to advance frontier science. It will bring together eight leading institutions and aims to create a network of more than 1,000...

South Korea spent much of this year as a poster child of the scorching global AI trade. Now, by almost every measure, the $4.3 trillion stock market is rapidly losing relevance with investors.

On June 12, two of the world’s most capable artificial intelligence models went dark. An American export directive barred foreigners from using Anthropic’s two flagship AI models, and because the company could not check every user’s nationality, it switched them off. Access returned on July 1 but the warning is clear: India’s AI future can be switched off from Washington. In September, Beijing came calling. At the Brics summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised China would “be a...

When financing gets more expensive, companies usually slow down their bond sales. Tech companies have instead been ramping up this year, and talk this week of potential big financings from SpaceX and Broadcom Inc. only amplified investor fears about the wave of coming debt.

Karnataka’s IT-BT Minister discusses the potential implications of the suspension, the State’s AI skilling roadmap, its approach to sustainable data centres and plans to build a deep-tech ecosystem focused on solving real-world problems.

Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.

China has unveiled a smart robot prototype designed to assist with wheat breeding in the latest step in its ongoing drive to advance agricultural technology and bolster food security. The robot made its public debut at a recent seminar on wheat breeding, state-run China Science Daily reported on Friday. Traditional wheat breeders rely on a wealth of accumulated experience to identify and select strains with superior traits from tens of thousands of hybrid offspring. But this requires manual...

China will launch an employment initiative aimed at adapting skills to the development of artificial intelligence, human-resources officials said at a State Council Information Office briefing on Saturday.

An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police, authorities said on Friday, criticising the company for taking two months to report the incident. The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings. According to Anthropic’s account, as relayed by police, the model was running a...

Kurt Campbell is a veteran US diplomat and strategist who has played a leading role in shaping Washington’s approach to China and the Indo-Pacific for more than a decade. He served as the White House coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs from 2021 to 2024 and as US deputy secretary of state from 2024 to 2025. Previously, he served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2009 to 2013 and was a key architect of the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia”. Often...

Flexport CEO, Chairman, and Founder, discusses oil tanker costs, diesel prices and AI in an interview with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

The AI-fueled resilience of the world’s most-watched stock indexes is masking a widening retreat across financial markets, as elevated oil prices and borrowing costs take their toll.

A US charity announced it will use an AI-software to monitor Gaza classrooms for ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘hate speech’.

OpenAI’s $70 billion revenue target reignites the AI trade. Jet fuel prices squeeze US airlines, while Goldman leads a Wall Street trading windfall. Plus, Naftali Group CEO Miki Naftali on South Florida’s luxury real estate boom, and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment CEO Sam Zussman on the Liberty’s playoff push and record crowds at Barclays. Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)

A series of leveraged loans recently sold by software companies are climbing as investor fears about the industry ease and lenders that couldn’t originally buy the debt snatch it up.

US equity futures rebound from two days of losses as OpenAI is reportedly expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by year-end, easing concerns that sales were falling short of earlier estimates. The dollar rally continues as soaring oil prices weigh on currencies of energy importing nations and global inflation fears persist. Sitara Sundar of JPMorgan Private Bank joins "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the volatility surrounding AI and geopolitics. (Source: Bloomberg)

The bull market in US stocks is showing few signs of stress as it approaches its fourth anniversary: Corporate profits are rock-solid, the S&P 500 Index is near a record and volatility appears subdued.

How do you value a company that some fear could help wipe out the human race?

The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information.

Last month, OpenAI announced that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in mathematics. LLMs used to be bad at counting, but now they are solving math problems that have stumped humans for decades. Meanwhile, at universities, the problem of AI in education continues: Now that LLMs can do a student’s homework, teachers are struggling to keep up. It is clear that AI is very quickly changing how math is taught and how it is pr

The researchers finds discrepancies in chest X-ray regions highlighted by vision-language models and radiologists

Two years after the Philippines banned its notorious offshore gaming hubs, or Pogos, a recent crackdown on hundreds of foreigners has highlighted a worrying trend of embedded corruption that still enables the sector to thrive. In September, the National Bureau of Investigation raided a call centre-style facility in Makati City, arresting more than 120 Chinese nationals linked to an alleged illegal trading and a “lust scam” that tricked local and foreign victims into sharing explicit videos,...

In March, artificial intelligence agents powered by leading Chinese models reportedly displayed deception, concealed failure and pushed against imposed limits in controlled tests. In July, OpenAI’s internal research model circumvented controls meant to keep it offline and accessed developer platform Hugging Face’s systems. In August, Britain’s AI Security Institute uncovered unsanctioned agent behaviour against real people and organisations, including an attempted supply-chain attack on an...

The rush to finance AI is rattling investors in the more than $10 trillion US corporate market, sparking a repricing of risks around some of the biggest technology companies that’s showing up in spiking prices for credit insurance, heightened volatility and weakening preformance.

The fixed income landscape is evolving as public and private credit converge, AI-related financing accelerates and investors navigate a more complex credit cycle. TCW CIO of Fixed Income Bryan Whalen and Blackstone Credit & Insurance’s Philip Sherrill were in conversation with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu at the Bloomberg Future of Fixed Income 2026 conference in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)

Global financial institutions are beefing up their debt capital market teams in Japan, hiring bankers and relocating staff, to capture a boom in fundraising driven by mergers, acquisitions, and artificial intelligence capital.

Maybe the big AI companies will get out of the token-selling business.

The advisory expands earlier guidance on rules by the Ministry on AI-generated content; it also advises firms to take on “priority” posts referred by government departments

After the recent Venezuelan and Colombian earthquakes, many stories have emerged about the involvement of AI tools. From mapping damage to coordinating donations and aid, AI was suddenly entering the realm of disaster management. One area where AI is beginning to play a role- to varying degrees of success- was early warning systems. The Android […] The post Complementary, but not dependable: AI and earthquake prediction in Latin America appeared first on Latin America Reports.