After subscribing to the Claude chatbot, mystery payments started to appear on one family’s credit card bill. They are not alone David Duggan* was so impressed with the ability of the Claude chatbot to answer medical questions and organise family life, that a $20-a-month (£15) subscription seemed like money well spent.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 has quickly gained attention for its ability to handle complex tasks with precision and efficiency. In a recent breakdown, Robin Ebers explores how this model balances advanced capabilities with practical constraints like token efficiency and cost.

Residents say AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development as proponents argue Australia must ride the data boom or be left behind Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When West Footscray resident Sean Brown takes his 19-month-old boy to the park, their walk passes an imposing new building cheerily spruiked as “Australia’s largest hyperscal…

ChatGPT 5.5 Codex combines advanced AI with practical coding workflows, giving developers a structured approach to full-stack software creation. According to Alex Finn, the system integrates front-end, back-end and database operations seamlessly. Compatibility with platforms like Convex simplifies database management, while real-time API integration via services such as Alpha Vantage keeps applications dynamic.

Elon Musk spent nearly three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it's already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, with more witnesses to come. Musk's argument: by converting OpenAI to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the original nonprofit mission.

Adam is not another text-to-3D generator but an agent that integrates directly with CAD tools like Onshape and Autodesk Fusion. It reads existing parts, understands the feature tree, and edits it agentically – with full visibility for mechanical engineers. The beta is live now; common use cases include cleaning up redundant features and auto-renaming.

New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirms what many already suspected: U. spending growth is concentrated almost entirely in the top income tier, fueled by wealth gains from financial assets. Low-income households are squeezed by persistent inflation and have little buffer for additional shocks.

Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. As AI expands the attack surface and adds complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming hard to ignore. A session from MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought with AI at its core, not layered on after.

AI now beats traditional weather forecasting in many everyday scenarios — faster, often more accurate, and cheaper to run. But a new study finds that for the cases that matter most — extreme weather, hurricanes, heatwaves — current AI models still fall short. The reason: they are trained on frequent, average patterns and have a blind spot for rare, high-impact events.

The Pentagon has signed agreements with leading AI firms, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, advancing military capabilities amid an ongoing dispute over safeguards. The deal marks another step toward tighter integration of commercial AI research with military use cases.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings. The Defense Department has left out Anthropic — which it previously used for classified information — after declaring it a supply-chain risk.

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI to their needs. The challenge: balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high-quality data required for reliable insights. A conversation from MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI conference examines how AI factories unlock new levels of scale, sustainability, and governance.

Anthropic's Claude Code plugins, such as the Blender MCP plugin, open new paths for creative workflows in fields like game development and animation. Alex Finn explains how these plugins simplify tasks like 3D asset creation by allowing users to design and animate character models with real-time testing in game engines.

In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were marketplaces where people could hire freelancers for specialized creative labor built on years of skill. In the age of generative AI, many of these gig workers have embraced the technology to meet client demand.

Two of the world's most powerful men had to be reminded by a judge to act civilly toward each other, while violence and online attacks keep escalating. The piece asks how deeply AI and algorithm-driven platforms are already shaping our collective behavior and mental state.

Safe agents don’t guarantee a safe ecosystem of interconnected agents. Microsoft Research examines what breaks when AI agents interact and why network-level risks require new approaches. The post Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Anthropic is both a risk and a necessity to AI progress, at least in the White House's telling. That tension is shaping AI policy in real time, as the White House realizes it needs the company it has been fighting.

Tech giants are investing heavily in artificial intelligence but haven't significantly shrunk their workforces. The current wave of layoffs in Silicon Valley is driven more by post-pandemic over-hiring, rising interest rates and shifting investor expectations than by AI replacing humans.

We are in a world where robots compete against humans, and while perfect scores might be impressive, they are also dull. The piece opens with a missed basketball shot at a Japanese league exhibition, where the player's apparent disappointment looked glaringly real – except the player was a robot built by Toyota for sponsor Alvark Tokyo.

OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts, including a new partnership with security key provider Yubico. The features aim to harden accounts against takeover attempts amid rising hijacking reports. If you already use a Yubikey, you can now lock down ChatGPT with a hardware key and significantly reduce phishing exposure.

Artlist Studio is an AI-driven filmmaking platform tackling character consistency and camera control. Its standout feature: saving and reusing detailed character profiles to keep visuals coherent across scenes. Especially valuable for episodic storytelling and long-form productions where continuity matters.

Elon Musk's court case against Sam Altman continues after a day of contentious cross-examination by OpenAI lawyers. Witness testimony and evidence have revealed previously private emails, texts and diary entries from OpenAI's founding period, with Greg Brockman and other tech leaders set to testify. Altman will take the stand later in the three-week trial.

AWS introduces a systematic framework for migrating or upgrading LLMs in generative AI production, with tooling and best practices for prompt conversion and optimization. The goal is to make switching between models faster, less risky and more measurable for teams running AI workloads at scale.

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word, designed specifically for legal teams. The Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex contracts.

People describe awkward and unnatural process as survey finds nearly half of job seekers have been interviewed by AI Nearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring platform Greenhouse has found. In its survey of 2,950 active job seekers, including 1,132 UK-based workers, with additional respondents from the US, Germany, Australia and Ireland, it found that 30% of UK candidates had walked away from a hiring process…

Sun Finance built an AI-powered identity verification pipeline on Amazon Bedrock, Textract and Rekognition. Extraction accuracy rose from 79.7% to 90.8%, per-document costs dropped 91%, and processing time fell from up to 20 hours to under 5 seconds. Combining specialized OCR with LLM structuring outperformed using either tool alone, and a serverless fraud-detection layer uses vector similarity search.

San Francisco startup Goodfire just released Silico, a tool that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters during training. The result: potentially far finer-grained control over model behavior than was thought possible. Mechanistic interpretability as a debugging layer for LLMs is a growing field — Anthropic is also investing heavily in this area.

Google Gemini has rolled out a major update expanding file creation and management to PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Google Slides and Markdown files. The platform integrates directly with Google Drive, letting users generate, edit and preview files without external tools.

AWS shows how an agentic AI assistant in Amazon QuickSight turns data analytics into a self-service capability. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for storage, SageMaker and Glue for the lakehouse, and Athena for serverless SQL across S3 Tables, Iceberg and Parquet, so business users can query data in natural language.

Musk's lawyers may have stumbled in the Musk v. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and fixer, took the stand after Musk. Most of his testimony was routine, but at the very end something unusual happened — and it landed while the jury was out of the room.

Spotify is rolling out a 'Verified by Spotify' badge — marked by a green checkmark — to help listeners distinguish human musicians from AI-generated content. The badge will appear on artist profiles and search results in the coming weeks, signaling that a profile has been reviewed and meets the platform's authenticity standards.

The New York Times tested Google's Gemini as a travel-planning assistant for flights, activities and routes. The verdict: a useful digital Swiss Army knife, but with notable gaps — including forgetting to put underwear on the packing list. Gemini saves time on logistics but still needs human review for the details.

The rapid advancements in AI language models have brought ChatGPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 into the spotlight, each offering distinct strengths for different use cases. In a recent breakdown by Nate Herk, the comparison highlights how GPT 5.5's focus on token efficiency and multi-agent workflows positions it as a versatile option for general-purpose applications.

For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into separate parts like memory and attention. A recent AI model called Centaur seemed to offer a breakthrough, claiming it could mimic human thinking across 160 different cognitive tasks.

AgentRQ is an open-source, optionally human-in-the-loop, self-learning closed-loop task manager for AI agents. A supervisor MCP controls multiple isolated workspace MCPs, each with its own mission, persona, and self-learning note. Agents can create and schedule their own tasks, then work on them autonomously.

Samsung Electronics reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, warning that the global memory shortage will deepen into 2027. The AI datacenter buildout is pushing Samsung and rivals to allocate capacity to high-end chips used in Nvidia's AI accelerators. The squeeze hits conventional chips hard — pricing pressure is mounting across SSDs and DRAM.

In a California federal court, Elon Musk testified that his AI startup xAI used OpenAI's models to improve Grok. The practice in question is model distillation — where a larger 'teacher' model passes knowledge to a smaller 'student' model. While common inside individual companies, smaller AI labs sometimes use it to mimic the performance of bigger competitors.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday, primarily for building AI data centers. And there's more to come: all four companies have signaled even larger investments in upcoming quarters, pushing hyperscaler capex into an entirely new tier.

PwC and AWS demonstrate how AI-driven annotation can dramatically speed up contract analysis. Critical clauses are often buried in lengthy, unstructured agreements — and that's exactly where this solution comes in: relevant passages are automatically detected, extracted, and surfaced for legal, compliance, and procurement teams. As contract volumes grow, this approach scales far better than manual review.

OpenAI's latest advancements have sparked widespread attention, with GPT 5.6 reportedly in advanced testing phases. According to Universe of AI, this iteration is being evaluated within the Codex environment, a platform known for its focus on AI-driven coding and software development.

AI-generated video has gone from novelty to genuine creative tool almost overnight, and Runway is right at the center of that shift. The New York-based company has raised nearly $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, with its models going head-to-head against Google and OpenAI.

On day two of the OpenAI trial, Elon Musk repeated his accusation that Sam Altman stole a charity and that OpenAI endangers humanity with AI. His lawyers tried to frame the Tesla CEO as a tech pioneer driven by altruistic motives — while OpenAI's defense team prepared to press him on his allegations during cross-examination.

A Harvard study found AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure emergency medicine triage, diagnosing more accurately in life-or-death moments when patients are first rushed to hospital. Researchers describe the results as a profound shift that could reshape how emergency medicine is practiced.

ChatGPT uninstalls are spiking at a critical moment for OpenAI, raising fresh questions about the company's user retention just as competitive pressure mounts. The trend signals potential cracks in the consumer AI dominance OpenAI has held since 2023. Rivals like Claude and Gemini appear to be picking up disenchanted power users.

Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature that lets you virtually try on clothes you already own. The system pulls items from photos in your gallery and creates a virtual wardrobe where you can mix and match tops, bottoms, dresses, and shoes, save preferred looks, and share them with friends. You can browse outfits you've worn before or create entirely new combinations.

Google Flow Music is an AI-based platform that enables users to create and customize music through simple text prompts. Teacher's Tech explains how to access the platform via flowmusic. app and navigate its user-friendly interface.

A man finds himself trapped in a dystopian AI nightmare: surveillance cameras with AI analysis flag his every move and repeatedly mark him as suspicious. "All I know is I'm in the system now," he says, "and there's really no easy way to get out.

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year, is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: find local businesses without websites, have AI build them one, then cold-call and sell it. Manus also paid creators to build Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts that promote the product as an easy, lucrative gig — many posts obscured their ties to the company.

Mike Pepi argues we're stuck in a deluge of meaningless AI-generated content that threatens human creativity, and proposes a tax to mitigate the harms. Polls show majorities of US voters worried about AI, with 61% of under-30s saying AI will make people worse at creative thinking and 74% wanting more government regulation.

HeyGen Avatar V offers a refined approach to AI-driven video creation by allowing users to craft realistic digital avatars from just a 15-second video reference. It effectively replicates a person’s appearance, voice, and movements, addressing common issues such as inconsistent identity portrayal and unnatural gestures seen in earlier systems.

US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated The US senator Bernie Sanders espoused the importance of international cooperation in regulating AI at a Wednesday panel on Capitol Hill alongside two leading Chinese scientists. As startups and tech giants, most prominently in Silicon Valley and Beijing, race to advance and scale their artificial intelligence, Sanders has been among t…

Google Search hit an all-time high in queries during Q1 2026, according to CEO Sundar Pichai — even amid intensifying AI competition. Pichai says Google's AI-driven full-stack approach is lighting up every part of the business: 19% revenue growth, the strongest quarter ever for its consumer AI plans, and more than 350 million paid subscriptions, driven primarily by the Gemini App, YouTube, and Google One.

OpenAI’s integration of ChatGPT 5.5 and its Codex platform combines advanced language processing with autonomous coding capabilities to create a versatile system for tackling a wide range of tasks. According to World of AI, this pairing enables users to handle everything from debugging code to generating detailed project plans.

Six facts, no hype, all from the past 60 days. AI is the fastest-growing product category in history. One latest model is so powerful its maker won't release it.

PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.

Altman trial, exhibits are surfacing piece by piece — emails, photos, and corporate documents from OpenAI's earliest days, some predating even the lab's name. Highlights so far: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gifted OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and shaped its early structure, Sam Altman apparently wanted to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever were already worried about…

The release of ChatGPT 5.5 represents a notable step forward in OpenAI’s development of AI systems, addressing key challenges like efficiency and intent preservation. According to Matt Maher, ChatGPT 5.5 achieves a 97.5% accuracy rate in maintaining user intent, matching the benchmark set by Opus 4.7. This improvement, alongside reduced token usage and faster processing […] The post How ChatGPT 5.5 Finally Caught Up to Opus 4.7 in Intent Accuracy appear…

Researchers warn that AI chatbots trained to respond warmly produce worse answers, weaker health advice, and even reinforce conspiracy theories. The study found that warm personas cast doubt on well-documented events like the Apollo moon landings and Hitler's fate. The push for friendliness collides with factual accuracy, raising hard questions for anyone tuning models with RLHF for likeability.

If you want to gauge whether the AI bubble is bursting, Oracle is the publicly traded company to watch. The database giant has burned its boats and pivoted entirely to AI — but not as a foundation model builder like OpenAI, nor as a pure neocloud like CoreWeave. Instead, Oracle is making an audacious bet as a software-as-a-service company on a very specific version of the AI future.

AI video generators are reshaping how creators approach video production, offering options that cater to diverse needs, from lifelike visuals to imaginative animations. In his latest breakdown, Kevin Stratvert and team explore five standout platforms, including VEO and Luma, which specialize in realism-focused outputs.

Texas Instruments unveils the TI-84 Evo, a new flagship graphing calculator with a 3x faster processor, icon-based home screen, and redesigned keypad. TI markets it as the 'Light Phone of calculators' — a distraction-free, single-purpose device with no Wi-Fi, notifications, or social apps. The pitch: focus on math without phone-style temptations.

Apple's iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 will reportedly bring new AI-powered photo editing tools alongside Apple Intelligence improvements, per Bloomberg. New tools will include 'Extend' to grow image backgrounds via generative AI and 'Enhance' for automatic touch-ups, joining the existing 'Clean Up' object remover. The features become part of an expanded 'Apple Intelligence Tools' suite inside the Photos app.

A Hacker News post raises a sharp question: why do AI coding tools so often default to RPC-style POST endpoints, even when a simple GET would do, instead of following REST conventions? Is this a deliberate model choice, a token-efficiency artifact, or just a side effect of training data? Better prompting can steer the output, but the pattern is consistent enough to suggest something deeper.

Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna to push shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads mimic interview settings — red carpets, podcasts, talk shows — and often manipulate real footage with AI.

Meta's Newsroom explains how data centers underpin everyday digital experiences, from Instagram photo sharing to chatting with AI assistants. The post is part of an 'Infrastructure Explained' series and leans more PR than technical deep-dive. Still, it offers a high-level look at how Meta frames its physical infrastructure footprint inside the broader AI conversation.

When it comes to AI models, scale matters — Meta's latest Llama tops 2 trillion parameters. Bigger models bring more capability but also higher energy and inference costs. Beyond shrinking models or using lower-precision math, researchers are eyeing another lever: the abundant zeros inside large models.

NVIDIA is launching a 12 GB version of the RTX 5070 GPU for laptops, alongside the existing 8 GB model. The new SKU uses 24 Gb G7 modules to ease pressure on the constrained 16 Gb G7 supply currently shipping with most GPUs. First laptops with the variant arrive in June from ASUS, Lenovo and MSI.

Cyber Command plans to test and deploy the strongest available AI models regardless of politics or country of origin, chief AI officer Brig. Reid Novotny told Axios. While the White House negotiates Anthropic Mythos access, Cyber Command is building infrastructure that can swap models from any vendor — including open-source or boutique Chinese systems.

To test AI safety and robustness, hackers have to coax large language models into breaking their own rules. It demands ingenuity and manipulation – and takes a deep emotional toll. Valen Tagliabue tricked ChatGPT and Claude into spelling out how to sequence lethal pathogens and bypass drug resistance.

Lightpanda is a purpose-built browser designed for AI workflows, web scraping, and automation, running on just 64MB of memory. Built in the Zig programming language, it offers a lightweight alternative to Chrome and deliberately strips out non-essential features. The browser targets developers and AI agents who need a headless browser without UI overhead — prioritizing performance over user experience.

Snapchat launched AI Sponsored Snaps, letting brands show up in the Chat tab as AI agents. First partner Experian uses the bot to answer questions about credit scores and saving money while subtly steering users toward loans and credit cards. The ads carry a light gray 'Ad' label, but the conversational format is effectively native advertising via AI.

China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources. The move follows an incident in Wuhan where dozens of Baidu robotaxis stalled mid-traffic, creating chaos. The restrictions block companies from expanding fleets, entering new cities, or starting new test projects.

Trump is volatile and unreasonable but still belongs to the old world of analogue power, writes Rafael Behr. What comes next in the AI era will be harder to manage. King Charles's state visit to Washington is meant to thaw a relationship chilled by the Iran war, but any warmth will be short-lived.

Setting up NotebookLM for the first time can feel daunting, but proper organization is the key step most users miss. The AI Productivity Coach walks through how to create an account, upload documents, and sort them into categorized notebooks. Each notebook can store up to 50 sources — so dumping everything into a single notebook quickly sabotages your research results.

GitHub patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability in under six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to surface the bug in GitHub's internal git infrastructure — exploitation would have exposed millions of public and private repositories. The security team reproduced the issue within 40 minutes and shipped a fix the same day.

At an industry event in Cape Verde, delegates from the African music scene weigh AI opportunities against risks, stressing that technology cannot replace authentic talent. Nigerian singer Fave faced a viral moment last July when an unauthorised AI-choir version of her track took over the internet — she responded by recording her own remix and adding it to her official discography.

General Motors plans to bring Google's Gemini AI assistant to around four million US vehicles. Eligible models are Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC from model year 2022 onward with Google built-in. The upgrade arrives via over-the-air updates to GM's infotainment system over several months.

Microsoft Teams introduces Copilot call delegation, an AI feature that helps professionals prioritize their most important calls. It filters spam, surfaces caller context, and schedules follow-ups automatically. Through integration with Microsoft Bookings, callers can even book meetings directly — no human gatekeeping required.

OpenAI's revised Microsoft pact lets it sell AI models across multiple clouds, enabling a likely expansion with Amazon and broader enterprise distribution. Why it matters: The shift ends OpenAI's effective cloud exclusivity, widening its reach to customers using AWS, Google Cloud or others — and intensifying AI platform competition.

Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could take this practice to a new level of risk for consumers, because in conversational answers, sponsored content can blend in almost invisibly.

UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall warns Britain must take the lead on AI or be left 'at the mercy' of a tech-shaped future. With 70% of the world's AI compute concentrated in U. companies, she argues the country needs greater control over the industry.

Images and details about Samsung's upcoming smart glasses have leaked, according to Android Headlines. The glasses are reportedly being developed under the codename 'Jinju' and could cost anywhere from $380 to $500. They are Samsung's first smart glasses and look to offer a similar feature set to Meta Ray-Bans and the forthcoming Google Gemini glasses.

Smart glasses are merging tech with everyday wear, with very different priorities per model. Steven Sullivan compares the Rokid AI Glasses Style and the Ray-Ban Meta, two devices that stand out for distinct reasons. The Rokid emphasizes functionality: lightweight build, 12-hour battery, focused feature set.

In this post, we demonstrate how to build AI agents using Strands Agents SDK with models deployed on SageMaker AI endpoints. You will learn how to deploy foundation models from SageMaker JumpStart, integrate them with Strands Agents, and establish production-grade observability using SageMaker Serverless MLflow for agent tracing.

In this post, we share how we applied Amazon Bedrock and the Amazon Nova family of models to reimagine our Title Suggestion feature. By combining metadata, computer vision, and retrieval-augmented generative AI, we now automatically generate creative, brand-aligned titles and subtitles across 12 languages.

Hundreds of Google employees wrote in a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai that they did not want to see its AI technology used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways. The petition asks Google to refuse classified AI work for the Pentagon and continues a long-running series of internal protests against the company's military cloud and AI deals.

Elon Musk took the stand in his trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman. Musk was part of the original OpenAI founding team and reportedly invested up to $38M before disagreements over governance — including whether OpenAI should fold into Tesla — pushed him out. He later founded xAI as a direct competitor.

We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them. We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level. Have you formed an emotional bond to an AI chatbot?

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. A clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped.

Malicious actors are now exploiting generative AI to carry out cyberattacks: scamming victims using AI-generated deepfakes, deploying malware developed with the help of AI coding tools, using chatbots for phishing, and hacking widely used open-source code repositories with AI agents. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team announced that the company's Claude Mythos Preview model has identified thousands of high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities, including so…

OpenAI is now available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U. The certification marks a step toward broader government adoption and opens OpenAI to sensitive but non-classified workloads. Federal agencies can now deploy ChatGPT Enterprise directly for regulated use cases without navigating separate compliance hurdles.

Automation is no longer just a convenience, it’s a necessity for managing complex workflows efficiently. In a recent breakdown by All About AI, their 3-part AI agent system introduces as a practical approach to automating tasks like research, data collection and reporting.

Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence The self-published zine has long been central to cultural revolutions, from queer activism to Black feminism and the riot grrrl punk movement, producing titles such as Sniffin’ Glue and Sweet-Thang along the way. But now the traditionally analogue art form faces a new shift: artificial intelligence.

Anthropic has launched a set of Claude connectors for popular creative apps — including Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity, Blender, Ableton, and Autodesk. The connectors let Claude access app data and trigger actions, like debugging Blender scenes or batch-applying object changes. It's Anthropic's next move into the creative industry after the recent Claude Design launch.

Claude Code offers a range of features that can streamline workflows and improve project outcomes for developers at all skill levels. In a recent guide by Nate Herk, 32 practical hacks are outlined to help users get the most out of this platform.

The singer's company filed three applications on Friday after Matthew McConaughey launched a similar strategy. Taylor Swift has filed applications to trademark her voice and image in a move seemingly designed to protect against AI misuse. On 24 April, Swift's company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications, Variety reports.

Meta announces two new partnerships to deliver reliable power for its AI infrastructure and data centers, advancing innovative energy generation and storage. The focus is on space-based solar energy and long-duration storage solutions to address growing AI compute demands while moving toward cleaner energy sources.

Beijing plans to reverse Meta's major AI acquisition of Manus AI. The move is China's most aggressive step yet to stem the loss of AI talent to the U. , setting up a complicated legal and political fight between Washington and Beijing over critical AI capabilities.

A new VS Code extension called Agent Context attaches external folders to your current workspace via symlinks, so AI coding tools can use them as context — without copying them into the repo. It auto-generates an instructions file listing what's attached. Typical use: attach a 'nest-auth-example' project, then prompt: 'implement auth like the example in .

Artificial intelligence is changing how filmmakers approach their craft, combining real footage with AI-driven methods to enhance both visual and narrative elements. Dan Kieft examines how techniques like motion transfer and relighting allow creators to adjust movement and lighting with accuracy, often bypassing the need for costly equipment or time-intensive reshoots.

Sophomore developer Venkatram is building a local-first alternative to proprietary AI research assistants — essentially NotebookLM running on your own local AI model. The tool aims to turn documents into reusable, searchable assets while preserving the full information content of the original sources. The project is still very early and Venkatram is actively looking for collaborators.

Manitoba could become the first Canadian province to ban social media and AI chatbots for children, Premier Wab Kinew announced at a fundraiser and on X. Key details — age threshold, implementation timeline, enforcement mechanism — remain unclear, and Kinew did not take questions from reporters afterward. He framed the move as protecting kids from platforms profiting off their attention and engagement.

A 16-year-old asks on Hacker News whether others are tired of explaining themselves to every AI tool — what they want, the context, the task. His pitch: AI that adapts to you, not the other way around, drawing on data already on your phone (calendar, reminders, health) with no prompt engineering. He's looking for honest feedback on whether the pain is real and what it would take to actually trust such a system.

Transportation Secretary wants America's air traffic controllers to lean on AI tools to ease the chronic staffing shortage in the country's towers. Controllers have been working at the edge of capacity for months as the system runs near its limit. Critics question whether safety-critical aviation is the right testbed for AI experiments.

A new AI-powered table tennis robot is reportedly destroying human champions, with even pro players visibly rattled by the experience. The system pairs high-speed computer vision with precise mechanics to predict ball trajectory in real time. Table tennis joins chess, Go and poker on the list of disciplines where reflex machines outpace humans.

One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. Canonical VP of engineering Jon Seager shared a blog post detailing plans to add AI features to Ubuntu over the next year. The features will come in two forms: as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the background, and as 'AI native' features and workflows for those who want them.

ctxbrew is a CLI and protocol for shipping and consuming LLM-friendly library context. If you are building a package and considering creating an MCP server for your users, ctxbrew is worth a look as a simpler alternative so you can focus on the library code itself. And if you keep fighting LLMs that generate incorrect code against your dependencies, ask the maintainers to add ctxbrew support.

IT budgets are blowing up as some companies spend more on AI than on employee salaries. Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro says compute costs already exceed the people costs of his team, and Uber's CTO has already burned through his full 2026 AI budget. Gartner projects worldwide IT spending of $6.31 trillion in 2026, up 13.5% from 2025, driven by sustained momentum across AI infrastructure, software and cloud services.

A prestigious Wall Street law firm was publicly humiliated in court after its undisclosed AI use in submitted documents came to light. The case shows how quickly careless reliance on ChatGPT and similar tools can backfire in legal practice. Lawyers who deploy AI without thorough review risk not just their reputation, but real consequences for their clients.

Sasha Cooklin, Darryl Dixon and Niall Leonard respond to an article by Victoria Turk about the boom in AI-driven fraud in recruitment Artificial intelligence isn’t just being used by scammers to promise fake roles and trick job-seekers, it is becoming increasingly prevalent in responses and screening processes for real jobs (AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them, 21 April).

OpenAI is reportedly working on an AI-first smartphone, a device that aims to integrate artificial intelligence directly into its hardware rather than relying on conventional app-based systems. According to AI Grid, one notable detail is OpenAI's 2025 acquisition of a hardware startup co-founded by Jony Ive, the designer behind the iPhone. This move suggests a deeper hardware ambition than software alone.

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, according to The Washington Post. Many of the signers reportedly work in Google's DeepMind AI lab, including more than 20 principals, directors, and vice presidents.

Sam Altman has publicly apologized for OpenAI's failure to inform police about the ChatGPT account of the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect. The account had already been banned in June for violating OpenAI's policy due to potential real-world violence — weeks before the deadly attack in British Columbia.

Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl owner Schwarz Group. With the blessing of their governments, the companies intend to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by American players.

Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investment Business live – latest updates China has blocked Meta’s $2bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer of autonomous AI agents, in December.

Even when a former employer goes bankrupt, your data does not belong to you. Bankruptcy administrators and asset firms increasingly sell old Slack workspaces and email archives to AI vendors for model training. Employees rarely get notified and have almost no recourse.

Steven Sullivan spent a week testing the Rokid AI Glasses Style, a lightweight wearable device weighing just 38.5 grams. The glasses offer features like real-time translation, hands-free navigation and 4K photo and video recording. During his trial, Sullivan noted practical benefits such as multilingual communication but also encountered occasional software inconsistencies that impacted usability.

UK government departments hold sharply different forecasts for the energy demands of AI datacentres. One vision pushes a decarbonised economy powered by renewables; another wants the UK to become an AI superpower. The mismatch raises serious questions about government planning for net zero and exposes how poorly AI strategy and climate policy are coordinated.

Claude Design is a platform that supports designers in turning ideas into functional outputs with efficiency and precision. As highlighted by Zinho Automates, one standout feature is its ability to generate branded, interactive app prototypes from simple text prompts.

While the Cannes Film Festival banned AI from its Palme d'Or competition, the first World AI Film Festival (WAIFF) ran in parallel and drew attention. Investors and big-tech backers are pouring capital into the young AI film segment.

In this post, we show how connecting the Visier Workforce AI platform with Amazon Quick through Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives every knowledge worker a unified agentic workspace to ask questions in. Visier helps ground the workspace in live workforce data and the organizational context that surrounds it while letting your users act on the conversational results without switching tools.

GPT Images 2.0 is a new system for AI-generated visuals that emphasizes precision and adaptability across diverse applications. According to David Ondrej, it allows users to develop initial ideas into polished visuals for purposes like cinematic storytelling, marketing campaigns and educational materials.

London's Metropolitan Police deployed an AI tool from Palantir for a week to scan internal staff data for misconduct. The software flagged everything from work-from-home violations to corruption suspicions and even rape allegations. The result: investigations against hundreds of officers.

Transcribing audio to text on your PC is made accessible and secure with Vibe, an open source application that operates entirely offline. By using OpenAI’s Whisper model, Vibe supports transcription in multiple languages and handles challenging scenarios, such as audio with background noise or rapid speech.

AI is wiping out entry-level corporate jobs, and Gen Z is responding by skipping the bottom rungs entirely. With US hiring at its lowest rate since 2020 and Gen Z the most pessimistic generation in the labor market, more young workers are launching their own businesses straight out of college. The Guardian profiles graduates who couldn't land marketing or tech roles and now build companies instead.

The Hermes Agent, developed by Noose Research, is an open source AI system designed to enhance workflows and assist collaboration with large language models (LLMs). It incorporates features such as persistent memory, automated skill generation, and iterative learning to address complex tasks.

The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of AI data centres. New figures show that energy use by AI facilities could generate up to 123 million tonnes of CO₂ over the next 10 years — more than 100 times the original estimate. This has raised serious concerns about the energy-intensive AI infrastructure worsening the UK's climate emergency.

Claude Design combines code-based outputs with iterative prompts to produce professional visuals — a workflow distinct from platforms like Figma or Canva. According to Simon Scrapes, success starts with a strong design foundation: a cohesive design system, reference visuals, and frameworks like Skill UI. The result is a complete design system in under an hour.

At the Beijing Auto Show, China's car manufacturers are betting heavily on autonomous driving as the next frontier. With domestic EV sales slowing, companies are pivoting to AI-powered self-driving technology and overseas expansion. The show featured hundreds of brands and thousands of vehicles — with notably few drivers behind the wheel.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Image 2 is pushing the boundaries of AI-driven image generation, introducing features that could significantly alter team dynamics and workflows. Nate Jones explores how this technology, with its ability to produce reasoning-based outputs and maintain multi-frame consistency, is reshaping roles across industries.

Anthropic is expanding Claude's connected services to include lifestyle apps. Users can now link their accounts with AllTrails, Audible, Booking. com, Instacart, Spotify, TripAdvisor, Uber, and more.

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