After spending the past two years buying AI tools, large law firms are building systems around something more valuable: what only they know.

Other disciplines should take heed

Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations

Asian technology stocks tumbled Tuesday as a sell-off in U.S. semiconductor shares spilled into regional markets.

The AI boom has attracted investors whose strategies resemble those of gamblers, Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan said, suggesting some of them have little understanding of what they’re ...

“Whoever wins AI, WINS!” Donald Trump doesn’t mince his words about artificial intelligence. Until now, America has taken a hands-off approach to regulating the technology. Instead the president has favoured boosting the stock market and ensuring that America beats China in AI. But that strategy is becoming unsustainable. Americans are increasingly anxious about everything from data centres to job security, while incidents of agents going rogue are warnings for the catastrophes that could lie ahead.  With anti-AI sentiment growing, and the midterms fast approaching, the Trump administration may have to reassess how AI should be regulated. Edward Carr, The Economist’s deputy editor, is joined by Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and a panel of our experts to discuss the case for regulation and how to strike the right balance between safety and speed.

The American consortium that runs Canada’s national nuclear lab is helping develop a fuel that could cut into the market for Canadian uranium

Nvidia-backed Australian AI data center operator Firmus has withdrawn its planned IPO amid market volatility.

Private equity’s role in consolidating the sector is raising the stakes, making partnerships less sustainable

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

OpenAI is spending $500,000 a day auditing 50 petabytes of agent telemetry while California prosecutors test developer liability for containment failures. Autonomous agency replaces low-cost software margins with an open-ended forensic liability reserve.

In the age of AI, what is the point of remembering?

Prime Minister Mark Carney's new national council on artificial intelligence is meant to provide the government with guidance on the evolution of its AI strategy and on making the technology safer.

Why is complicated. But it’s not about the damn em-dash