SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 — Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8 per cent of the world’s working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft. In the first quarter of 2026, 27.5 per cent of people aged 15-64 in developed countries…
AI now scales faster than the institutions built to govern it. That is the through-line of Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, the ninth edition of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s annual audit, and the finding carries direct consequences for cybersecurity teams, information governance leaders, and discovery professionals who are being asked to stand behind…
(Bloomberg) — Some of China’s most prominent figures in generative artificial intelligence warned that the Asian nation is unlikely to eclipse the US in the global AI race anytime soon. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen series of open-source models, put at less than 20% the chances of any Chinese company leapfrogging…
