The rise of AI election ads in US midterms campaign
BBC Verify has tracked dozens of AI ads to assess how they are being used by campaigns in the midterms.
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BBC Verify has tracked dozens of AI ads to assess how they are being used by campaigns in the midterms.
AI-linked job losses in the UK are running at twice the rate of US and Germany.
Chinese artificial intelligence chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 147.7 per cent surge in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the country’s aggressive push to replace Nvidia chips continues to fuel high growth among local chipmakers. The Shanghai-listed chipmaker generated 1.4 billion yuan (US$210 million) in net profit for the three months ended September 30, up from 566.6 million yuan during the same period last year. Revenue reached 3.5 billion yuan, an increase of 104.5 per cent...
There’s no end in sight for the brutal selloff in China’s artificial intelligence model developer stocks, with competition growing ever more heated and the threat of rival listings next year.
Jeff Sherman, deputy CIO of DoubleLine Capital, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." Treasuries surged on Thursday, sending the US 10-year yield back below 5% as investors sought shelter from tumbling share prices for companies leading the boom in spending on artificial intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)
Investors will become more selective in the near future when it comes to initial public offerings, as rising concern about the spending on the artificial intelligence expansion — particularly data center funding — ripples across the market, according to Citigroup Inc.’s co-head of global equity capital markets.
Treasuries climbed across the curve Thursday, pushing long-end yields to the lowest in a month, as renewed doubts about the durability of the artificial intelligence trade drove investors toward havens.
The publisher of top-selling Haitian-Canadian writer Thelyson Orelien said Wednesday it had confirmed that he used artificial intelligence to help write his novel It Was Either That or Die. Orelien has denied allegations that he used AI on his breakthrough novel and, last week, Canadian publisher Boreal said it was standing by the 38-year-old writer. But on Wednesday, Boreal said it had conducted a further investigation into the allegations. “New information, confirmed over the past few days,...
Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Nscale is facing opposition to the valuation target it’s pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, after a series of market setbacks for artificial intelligence companies. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tokyo, Oct. 20 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center, or LSTC, whose members include chipmaker Rapidus Corp., and other entities said Tuesday that they will jointly develop an artificial intelligence-based medical image-processing system. The project members, also including Hokkaido University and Fujifilm Corp., aim to realize real-time image processing required...
There’s a growing push to review guidelines for the $9.5 trillion-a-day currency market more often, to make sure they keep pace with artificial intelligence’s rapid advance.
In New York last month, US-China talks on artificial intelligence opened up a path of cooperation. This was affirmed by the Xi-Trump summit in Washington where both presidents agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue and hotline. With the next AI meeting set to happen in November, it is imperative that both countries further cooperation. The AI ecosystem is in flux. American tech companies are draining their coffers as they commit vast sums to chips, data centres and energy before the revenue...
In New York last month, US-China talks on artificial intelligence opened up a path of cooperation. This was affirmed by the Xi-Trump summit in Washington where both presidents agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue and hotline. With the next AI meeting set to happen in November, it is imperative that both countries further cooperation. The AI ecosystem is in flux. American tech companies are draining their coffers as they commit vast sums to chips, data centres and energy before the revenue...
Tokyo, Oct. 19 (Jiji Press)--Japan aims to strengthen its investigative capabilities using advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, to tackle cyberattacks and "tokuryu" loosely organized anonymous criminal groups, National Public Safety Commission Chairman Yasuhiro Hanashi has said. "We need to respond without delay to protect safety and security, which are the foundation of ...
China has been urged to learn from a Pentagon project to assess future warfare but warned to avoid the potential conflicts of interest and other shortcomings of the US defence review. Project Meridian, launched late last month, is designed to identify future battlefield requirements and prioritise investment, with a focus on areas such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, directed energy, robotics and biotechnology. In an analysis published on Friday, the Beijing-based think tank Blue...
When artificial intelligence agents first arrived, they came with a tantalising promise: autonomous “digital workers” that would finally free humans from corporate drudgery. As businesses across Asia are discovering, however, the reality is quite the opposite – more work, new friction and a whole new layer of management. When Xiao Mengjie, an AI product marketing manager at a Big Tech firm in Shanghai, recently assigned two AI agents what she described as a simple task, she expected efficiency....
China and America are talking again. There are leaders’ meetings, phone calls and a new channel for discussing artificial intelligence. Officials are cautiously trying to keep the relationship from veering into crisis. And yet some of the hardest questions remain untouched. Neither side is giving much ground on advanced chips, export controls remain a battlefield and neither Washington nor Beijing appears ready to slow its race to develop increasingly powerful AI. So what, exactly, does it mean...
To train artificial intelligence models, millions of physical books are being digitised and destroyed. Our colleagues at France 2 investigate this controversial practice and the risk of seeing many rare second-hand books disappear forever.
O ministro Marco Aurélio Bellizze, do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), proibiu nesta quinta-feira (15) a Meta de restringir a entrega de postagens relacionadas aos candidatos à Presidência da República. Pela decisão, o Facebook, uma das redes sociais operadas pela Meta, deve abster-se de reduzir a distribuição de publicações, impedir recomendações ou restringir resultados de busca. A Meta controla também Instagram e WhatsApp. A decisão determina tratamento igualitário entre as candidaturas e prevê medidas contra restrições desiguais. Notícias relacionadas:Campanha de Lula vai ao TSE após IA da Meta restringir buscas.OEA será acionada por Lula sobre interferência da Meta nas eleições.Meta desabilitou anúncios do perfil de Lula no Facebook.Em caso de descumprimento, será aplicada multa diária de R$ 500 mil. A decisão foi proferida após a campanha do candidato à reeleição Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) informar ao TSE que comandos para geração de imagens de inteligência artificial não permitiam gerar imagens de Lula. Contudo, a criação de imagens relacionadas ao candidato Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) está liberada. Na decisão, o ministro ressaltou que as medidas determinadas por ele não alcançam o conteúdo de opiniões manifestadas pelos usuários das redes sociais e devem ser aplicadas igualmente às candidaturas de Lula e Flávio. “Estão presentes, portanto, a probabilidade do direito, nos limites das medidas a seguir, e o perigo de dano, evidenciado pela proximidade do segundo turno, marcado para 25 de outubro de 2026, e pelo início, em 22 de outubro de 2026, dos períodos em que a lei veda a publicação de novos conteúdos sintéticos e o impulsionamento de propaganda eleitoral. Eventual falha nesse intervalo não poderá ser reparada após o pleito”, justificou o ministro. IA Sobre as falhas na geração de conteúdos de inteligência artificial de Lula, Belizze disse que não há provas de que a Meta agiu para barrar conteúdos favoráveis a Lula. “Ao menos em exame preliminar, verifica-se que a ferramenta de controle de prompts desenvolvida pela representada apresentou falha. Não há, contudo, elementos que permitam afirmar que essa falha tenha decorrido de critério deliberado ou que o episódio tenha se repetido de forma sistemática”, completou. Brasília (DF), 14/10/2026 - Reprodução de tela de comandos da Meta IA com candidatos Lula e Flávio Bolsonaro para eleições. Foto: Meta IA/Reprodução - Meta IA/Reprodução Outro lado Após o PT denunciar as falhas, Meta declarou que a recomendação de candidatos foi proibida, conforme determinação do TSE. A plataforma também informou que tomou medidas adicionais para restringir as recomendações. “Em cumprimento com as regras eleitorais do Brasil, nós proibimos temporariamente a recomendação de candidatos ou a geração de imagens deles. Tomamos medidas adicionais para que comandos usando apenas o primeiro nome dos candidatos e seu número nas urnas também não produzam imagens”, afirmou a empresa.
HSBC, Hong Kong’s biggest lender, said on Thursday it would double its artificial intelligence specialist team in the city to 300, a figure much larger than the workforce planned for its recently announced AI centre in Singapore. The announcement comes after Hong Kong’s regulators were reported to have raised concerns about the Singapore hub. The bank would double its AI specialist headcount in Hong Kong from 150 to 300 over the next two to three years, said David Liao Yi-chien, HSBC co-CEO for...
Allan Gray Ltd., which oversees $29 billion in assets, favors Nigerian stocks over South Korean equities, as they offer a diversification play from the artificial-intelligence frenzy that has swept markets from Wall Street to Asia.
The deepening selloff in shares linked to artificial intelligence pushed the key emerging-market equity index down for a second day and triggered a decline in currencies of Asia’s technology hubs.
Japanese semiconductor materials giant Sumitomo Bakelite plans to expand production of advanced chip packaging materials in China and Singapore, marking the second such announcement for its Chinese operations in less than four months as artificial intelligence drives demand for more sophisticated semiconductors. The Tokyo-based company said on Friday that it would add production lines for mould underfill (MUF) materials and compression-moulding granules at its facilities in Suzhou, eastern...
Last month, President Xi Jinping travelled to New Delhi to attend the Brics summit – his first visit in seven years. On the summit’s sidelines, Xi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an in-depth conversation that explored topics of shared interest between them, such as leveraging open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) for mutual benefit. Even so, such sanguine signals were soon drowned out by a spate of downbeat headlines. One recent story warned of the “asymmetric” relationship...
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)
China is racing to power a future of artificial intelligence and robots with renewables. But as it builds more electricity capacity than ever before, it faces a new challenge: whether the grid can keep up. (Source: Bloomberg)
As Hong Kong and Singapore compete for leadership in businesses ranging from foreign exchange trading to wealth management, the battleground has extended to artificial intelligence, with both cities vying to attract investment from HSBC Holdings and other major corporations, according to industry players. The issue came into focus after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) questioned HSBC about its decision to set up an AI centre in Singapore, despite Hong Kong being its single largest...
Copper steadied as a rally in tech-related stocks held near record highs on optimism about the artificial intelligence boom.
An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one of the most token-efficient open models in its class. Reflection AI on Monday debuted Beam, its first open-weight model built for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks. The US firm said Beam was “competitive” with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai – also known as Zhipu AI – and was “approaching” Alibaba...
Moonshot AI has closed the final round of private fundraising at a valuation of about $50 billion and is heading toward an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year, according to people familiar with the matter.