AI News Brief: Harvey CEO and co-founder Winston Weinberg says the US legal AI giant plans to enter the Japanese market in early 2027, targeting major Japanese law firms and corporate legal departments. The move is expected to accelerate AI tool adoption among Japan’s legal industry and its corporate clients, while also potentially putting pressure on the current billable hour model…
AI news brief: Before FTX’s bankruptcy, Alameda Research spent over $1 billion to acquire a roughly 20% stake in Genesis Digital Assets, and now these crypto mining assets have been repurposed for AI compute. Investment firm SWI Group announced it completed roughly 800 million euros (about $900 million) in funding to expand its data center and AI compute capacity in Europe and the US, which includes the Genesis Digital Assets mining business once tied to FTX.
AI News Brief: Microsoft President Brad Smith publicly called for AI regulation to happen now in a recent BBC podcast, pointing out that even consumer products like milk and washing machines face more oversight than the companies building AI. He described AI as both a ‘weapon and a tool’ that’s putting global cybersecurity at risk, saying ’the time has come’ to establish global safety rules. Smith specifically named the UK, rather than the US or EU, as best positioned to lead on global AI safety rules.
AI News Flash: WindBorne Systems has signed a new contract with the US Air Force worth up to $49 million, under which the Air Force will purchase data collected by the company’s fleet of autonomous weather balloons. WindBorne currently operates around 700 weather balloons worldwide, continuously gathering atmospheric sensor data that it both sells to customers and feeds directly into its own AI weather forecasting models.
AI news brief: Copilot has released a beginner-focused tutorial on the GitHub Copilot app, explaining how to help Copilot get more familiar with your own codebase. The article highlights three setup directions: first, adding custom instructions and skills to your repository so Copilot can generate suggestions that follow your project’s conventions…
AI News Flash: The Financial Stability Board (FSB) sent a letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank officials on Monday, flagging cross-border stablecoin regulation and AI financial risk as two key issues ahead of Thursday’s G20 meeting. FSB Chair Andrew Bailey warned that cross-border regulatory and crisis-management mechanisms for stablecoins are still immature or not yet established. According to the FSB’s 2025 annual review, only 11 of the 28 surveyed jurisdictions have completed…
AI News Flash: With the Fed’s October rate meeting approaching, the IMF and World Bank annual meetings kicked off this Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, running for a week with global finance officials and central bank governors gathering to focus on three key topics — inflation, artificial intelligence, and climate change. As the meeting opens, volatile energy prices and bond yield movements continue to weigh on policymakers’ outlook, standing out as the two biggest variables overshadowing the talks. The original summary is brief, only noting the meeting’s themes and…
AI news brief: Voice AI is pulling in massive investment, but industry executives say the category hasn’t had its ChatGPT moment yet. PolyAI CTO Shawn Wen said at HumanX that even though full-duplex models (which can listen and speak at the same time) now exist, voice AI still hasn’t hit a real breakthrough point. He thinks the next key challenge is making model inference dramatically faster.
AI news brief: Amazon recently followed Microsoft’s lead and announced it will no longer require NDAs when negotiating data center construction with local governments. The news appeared in a longer blog post arguing that data centers actually benefit communities. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Sean O’Kane and Rebecca Bellan discussed the topic with the article’s author.
AI news brief: Taiwanese solid-state battery maker ProLogium’s CEO says that with EV sales growth slowing and manufacturing costs running high, half of the company’s future revenue will come from non-automotive applications, including AI and aviation-related markets. Solid-state batteries have long been seen as a promising next-generation EV power source, but ProLogium and other industry players are now looking beyond sluggish EV demand toward emerging use cases like AI computing and flying vehicles to diversify their revenue streams.