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    Madhumita Murgia

    Artificial Intelligence Editor

    Madhumita Murgia leads coverage about artificial intelligence, and writes on data and emerging technologies for the FT. She was previously European technology correspondent. She was also a reporter and editor at WIRED and The Daily Telegraph. She features as a co-host on the podcast series Tech Tonic

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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      SoftBank Group Corp
      SoftBank seeks OpenAI tie-up as Son plans deal spree after Arm IPO

      Japanese conglomerate is looking to invest tens of billions of dollars in AI after Arm’s blockbuster listing

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Visual story
      How generative AI really works

      The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

      A composite image of letters, words and shapes
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Former Google AI expert raises $100mn for biotech start-up

      Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’

      A headshot of Inceptive founder Jakob Uszkoreit
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      UK tech tsar warns of AI cyber threat to NHS

      Ian Hogarth, head of AI task force, warns new technology could be used to cause disruption akin to pandemic

      Ian Hogarth, chair of AI taskforce
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Biometrics
      UK government seeks expanded use of AI-based facial recognition by police

      Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate

      People take part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI

      Jais software part of regional powers’ effort to take world-leading role in technology’s development

      Montage of the Jais logo and the UAE’s national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy computer chips

      US retailer earnings reports send mixed messages on consumer spending

    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Top Google AI experts pick Japan to set up on their own

      Llion Jones and David Ha take inspiration from nature with start-up Sakana AI

      Llion Jones and David Ha
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Technology regulation
      UK to host AI safety summit at start of November

      ‘Like-minded’ states to be asked to Bletchley Park along with tech executives and academics

      Bletchley Park
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      News in-depthArtificial intelligence
      Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions

      Gulf nations acquire thousands of GPUs amid global shortage of semiconductors needed to build large language models

      Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Google and Universal Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’

      New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat

      The logos of Universal and Google with photos of Drake and Taylor Swift
    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple seeks to bolster expertise in generative AI on mobile devices

      Tech giant recruits staff to compress existing language models to run efficiently on iPhones and iPads rather than the cloud

    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Transformers: the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution

      Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant

      Montage image showing the computer scientists’ headshots on what looks like a circuit board
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      News in-depthArtificial intelligence
      Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models

      Microsoft, OpenAI and Cohere experiment with ‘synthetic data’ as they reach the limits of information created by humans

    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      ChatGPT maker investigated by US regulators over AI risks

      Federal Trade Commission probes Microsoft-backed OpenAI over potential harm from chatbot’s fabricating information

      The ChatGPT logo
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      News in-depthMeta Platforms
      Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals

      Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race

      Mark Zuckerberg
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      How actors are losing their voices to AI

      Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law

      Voice actor against a pixellated background
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Microsoft and Nvidia join $1.3bn fundraising for Inflection AI

      Year-old start-up created by DeepMind co-founder adds to excitement around generative products

      Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI models fall short of draft EU rules, researchers say

      Companies such as ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Google and Meta come under scrutiny with copyright being a major issue

      ChatGPT, Meta and Google logos
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      The trials and tribulations of AI voice tech

      Hunter Biden hit with federal tax and firearm charges

    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      FT SeriesAI in the workplace
      AI in recruitment: the death knell of the CV?

      Generative technology is rebalancing the power dynamic towards applicants

      Montage image showing green lights on a blue background, looking like a data centre, with A4 CVs floating around in the middle
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      News in-depthOpenAI
      OpenAI’s Mira Murati: the woman charged with pushing generative AI into the real world

      Chief technology officer is expanding applications for ChatGPT as company seeks advances in artificial intelligence

      Mira Murati
    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content

      Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models

      Montage with News Corp, Axel Springer and New York Times logos, and with OpenAI and Google logos in the background. Woman on laptop in the front
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      FT SeriesAI in the workplace podcast16 min listen
      Bored at work? How AI could come to the rescue

      The AI revolution is coming to your workplace. Should we fear it or embrace it?

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Lunch with the FT
      Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’

      The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’

      A illustration headshot of Ted Chiang in front of a restaurant
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