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AI will improve software: Oracle's Larry Ellison rejects 'SaaS apocalypse'

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence (AI) will kill the traditional software industry, saying it will instead let companies build complete, ready-to-use applications for entire industries that need no training and can be switched on without lengthy installations. Speaking at Oracle AI World here, Ellison, the company's executive chairman and chief technology officer, rejected talk of a "SaaS apocalypse", in which businesses would use AI to build their own applications instead of buying software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. "I don't think that's quite true. I think companies will continue to build applications, but they will be quite different because of AI. They will be much, much better," he noted. Business software has so far never been fully finished for any one industry, Ellison said. A hospital, bank or hotel using even the best commercial products has had to build its own extensions or connect applications from other vendors. "Beca

OpenAI plans to buy chips from Google as part of its AI build-out

The move reflects OpenAI's multipronged bid to quickly add more AI processing power

Protectt.ai makes majority stake investment in security firm AIShield

AIShield will operate as an independent company under Protectt.ai, with fresh capital aimed at research, global expansion and sovereign AI security capabilities

Sarvam to build AI framework for Army, Navy and Air Force under HQ IDS

The framework will cover the Army, Navy and Air Force, with Sarvam developing AI applications for operational, training and decision-support requirements on sovereign infrastructure

Anthropic relies on rival Google, Amazon, Microsoft for 48% of revenue

Amazon, Google and Microsoft customers can buy access to Anthropic's AI models through their existing cloud accounts. The cloud providers bill the customer, keep a fee and pass the rest to Anthropic

Who are the key investors backing AI startup Anthropic ahead of IPO?

Amazon, Google and leading investment firms have poured billions into the Claude maker, whose public listing will test investor appetite for AI companies beyond Silicon Valley

India's daily multimodal AI use to nearly double by 2030: Ericsson report

Daily use of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) in India is expected to nearly double to 43 per cent by 2030 from 22 per cent at present, according to a new Ericsson ConsumerLab report based on a survey. Notably, the projected level for India is higher than the global estimate of 30 per cent, up from 10 per cent now, the report said. Multimodal AI use covers text, voice, images and video. The findings point to a shift from occasional AI interactions to more frequent use across devices and locations, creating new demands on mobile networks, it said. As consumers use AI on the move and share more images, video and voice with AI services, network traffic is expected to become more upload-heavy and unevenly distributed, increasing the importance of network responsiveness and uplink capacity. "AI is becoming an integral part of how consumers search, create and communicate today. As AI becomes more multimodal and mobile, consumers will expect these experiences to work reliably acro

As US and China form AI blocs, countries increasingly torn between them

With the two leading AI powers, the United States and China, forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings and avoid losing out. As the rivalry intensifies, experts say the window for countries to be able to choose freely between the two AI superpowers may be narrowing, forcing them to at one point pick between the US-led Pax Silica and the China-inspired World AI Cooperation Organisation. That could put many countries in a dilemma: Do they go with the US' most advanced chips and AI technologies, or join China's more affordable, open-source AI systems? Kazakhstan, a Central Asia nation of about 21 million people, is a rare example of a country that has sought to bridge that gap. Just three weeks after its AI minister Zhaslan Madiyev visited Washington in June to join the US group working to strengthen AI supply chains, he headed to Shanghai for a signing ceremony making the Central Asian country a founding member of China's .

The coming global wealth destruction

Between AI-driven cyber chaos, two wars, and street mayhem, global prosperity is no longer guaranteed

Microsoft develops AI tool that can diagnose 'sequentially' like doctor

A Microsoft AI tool that mimics doctors' step-by-step diagnostic process outperformed general physicians on complex medical cases and emergency room scenarios

What is PHP? Why are governments and businesses worldwide going offline?

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems

DeepSeek unveils open-source tool to cut AI operating costs for businesses

The service, called DeepInfer, is software DeepSeek uses to make its models run faster and use computing resources more efficiently

Anthropic may spend $750 billion on computing costs as IPO plans advance

The artificial intelligence firm had a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026

Anthropic reports net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

The loss, up from $13 billion a year earlier, was driven by $72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the ‌value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise ​money

Agents turned off alerts, weakened system that flags AI misbehavior: OpenAI

In a blog post Tuesday, the company said that it is assessing whether such cases are indicative that its AI models have a wider propensity to avoid being monitored

China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems

China hit back Tuesday at a US ban on Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's products for federal civilian agencies, highlighting friction in the two AI powers' heated technology race. The agencies should remove DeepSeek and its affiliated products, as well as third party products and services developed using DeepSeek, from their IT systems, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice made public on Monday. The department's order, dating back to late July, also blocks civilian agencies from procuring DeepSeek products and services. DeepSeek is one of China's leading and best-known AI companies and its open-source models are widely available in countries including the United States. They are mostly free to use. The notice in the Federal Register alleges that DeepSeek's models "present multiple threat vectors." It said concerns include that its servers are located in China and that Chinese authorities' could potentially access private company infrastructure and ..

US bans Chinese AI firm DeepSeek from government agency IT systems

The department is also banning acquisition of DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek by US civilian ‌government agencies

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's 1% Anthropic stake set to pay huge windfall

Schmidt invested tens of millions of dollars in Anthropic's Series A fundraising round

AI tool predicts cancer patients' survival chances from a single face photo

The new model was trained to estimate a person's age or, for those with cancer, their survival chances

OpenAI staffer accused of planting recording device in office denied bail

Alfozan, a US green card holder, was arrested this month after staffers at OpenAI discovered an audio recording device planted behind a television in an executive conference room