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Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Labor MP Ed Husic says any moves to water down copyright law to benefit AI companies would be “going against the ethos” of the party and undermining the principle of “a fair day…

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of how large language models become.

The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents.

Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese will describe the progress of AI as an inflection point for society on par with the renewable energy transition, but is not expected to detail progress on copyright reforms to protect creative industries. The prime minister will delive…

Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House earlier this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a “victim of crime”. The Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology…

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career? We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected.

- Image Line is turning Gopher in FL Studio 2026 from a help-manual chatbot into an in-project agent that can execute certain DAW actions for the user. - In The Verge’s test, Gopher correctly created a four-on-the-floor kick pattern, added snares on the backbeat, and put gated reverb on the snare. This is mix and setup assistance, not full music generation.

- Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a contractor working on Meta's Project Cosmo AI datacenter discharged bacteria-contaminated water into the public sewer system. - The contamination was found during routine February testing. The Guardian reports the bacterium was Cupriavidus gilardii; Meta says drinking water was not affected.

- The Guardian tracks the rise of housefishing: property photos are AI-enhanced with repainted walls, virtual furniture, greener lawns and dramatic dusk skies. - A Reddit complaint about a Winkworth listing sharpened the issue: buyers said the real home looked worse and smaller than the images, with a chimney breast apparently removed in photos. - Photographers and agents draw a line at structural edits.

- Three residents of Sturtevant, Wisconsin, have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over its $7.3 billion Fairwater data center in nearby Mount Pleasant. - The complaint alleges private nuisance and negligence. Residents say diesel generators, HVAC systems, chillers, cooling towers and fans create constant, excessive noise on their properties.

- Stargate UK was pitched as OpenAI’s major UK datacentre move. The project was paused in April, with OpenAI citing regulation concerns and high energy costs. - A Guardian FoI response suggests OpenAI and Nscale never met local authorities at Cobalt Park in North Tyneside.

- Parker Prompts compared four AI agents across practical workflows: Open Claw, Claude Code, Paperclip and Hermes. The core finding: output improves when the agent is matched to the task instead of treated as a universal assistant.

- Anthropic’s new Mythos and Fable models were offline for about 20 days after Amazon flagged a possible jailbreaking flaw to the U. government, Axios reports. - The Trump administration responded with broad export controls.

- South Korea’s AI chip boom is concentrated around Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Both dominate HBM memory for AI data centers, and analysts expect their combined operating profits to rise almost sevenfold. - The windfall is highly visible but narrow: Samsung memory-chip staff could receive bonuses of about 600m won, while SK Hynix paid nearly 3,000% of monthly salary earlier this year.

- Australia is facing pressure over a reported package in which Big Tech would invest more than $50bn in datacentres and create a $350m fund for creatives. - In return, tech companies want weaker copyright rules so they can use Australian music, journalism and books to train AI models. - Anthony Albanese’s government says it has no plan to weaken copyright.

Commerce Department reversed restrictions on Anthropic's most powerful models after previously limiting access on national security grounds. - The episode looks less like a coherent China strategy and more like policy whiplash: restrict first, then reopen after pressure and negotiations. - The damage goes beyond Anthropic.

- Colorado’s 8th congressional district has turned into one of the state’s priciest Democratic primaries as tech-linked super PACs pour millions behind Manny Rutinel. - Rutinel is running as a progressive against more centrist Democrat Shannon Bird. His public pitch centers on affordability, Latino representation and ICE oversight, not AI.

- The Verge profiles Bill Savitt, the Wachtell Lipton lawyer who beat Elon Musk in the Twitter acquisition fight and again in Musk v. - Savitt’s method is low-drama and preparation-heavy: know the documents, stay calm, do not take the bait, and build a timeline a jury can follow.

- Elizabeth Warren and Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce an updated Health and Location Data Protection Act. It would target not only data brokers, but also companies that sell health or location data to brokers. - The new AI-specific piece is explicit: information people enter into tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or similar systems would be covered by the proposed restrictions.

- Geeky Gadgets picks up an AI Grid warning: LLMs are moving from chatbots into autonomous agents, even though they often cannot predict the effects of their actions. - The flaw is framed as Action Blindness: without a robust world model, a system lacks a usable sense of spatial, physical or causal consequences.

- More than $24m flowed into the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district as pro- and anti-regulation AI groups tested their political muscle. - The main target was Alex Bores, a New York state assembly member who sponsored an AI safety bill. Pro-AI PACs spent over $8m opposing him.

- Alex Bores narrowly lost the NY-12 Democratic primary to Micah Lasher, 35.0 percent to 39.1 percent in the latest AP count. - Bores had co-authored the RAISE Act, New York's law adding safety requirements for frontier AI companies. That made him a target for national AI lobby money.

- Geeky Gadgets reports that Anthropic’s Fable 5 was blocked over security risks, including alleged exposure to distillation attacks that could let others copy useful model capabilities from outputs. - Amazon researchers reportedly found a jailbreak that bypassed safety rules. The corporate angle is messy because Amazon is also a major Anthropic investor.

- Amazon software engineers Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand testified before Seattle City Council in favor of limits on large data centers, citing a local law that protects employees from discrimination over political speech. - On June 10, one day after Seattle passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, Amazon called the three into Employee Relations meetings.

- Axios describes an improvised AI power center inside Trump’s White House: David Sacks is stepping back from daily work, Sriram Krishnan plans to leave by the end of June, and other officials are moving into the gap. - Howard Lutnick is back at the center after the Anthropic clash.

- Gleb Tsipursky spent five days treating pain and swelling in his left calf as a muscle issue. A chiropractor handled it the same way, but the symptoms kept getting worse. - His own AI health tool, loaded with medical records, medications, lab results and visit notes, raised deep vein thrombosis and pointed to the key diagnostic step: an ultrasound.

- Geeky Gadgets frames GPT-6 as OpenAI’s attempt to regain momentum after Microsoft and Google allegedly shift more work to their own AI stacks. Microsoft is tied to Polaris, while Google is linked with Apple’s Gemini plans for Siri. - The article highlights larger context windows, redesigned reward pipelines and stronger long-term memory as the main GPT-6 promises.

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.

David Lammy to announce trial of AI assistants in crown courts in effort to cut backlog of cases A plan to roll out virtual legal assistants powered by artificial intelligence to crown courts has prompted warnings that the technology should not be used to “replace vital funding and additional court staff”. David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, will announce on Tuesday that AI assistants will be trialled in an effort to cut the backlog of court cases i…

Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AI A few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays. In it, she raised her concern that universities are qualifying lawyers, nurses, financial advisers, engineers and teachers who do…

US firm says it will convene policymakers for discussion of dangers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI – in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products. In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards “recursive s…

Normally competing AI heavyweights are aligning: Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft) are urging the US Congress in an open letter to close a dangerous biosecurity gap. Specifically, sellers of synthetic DNA and RNA would be required to screen orders for risky sequences. The goal is to make it harder to misuse AI to develop biological weapons.

Judges like Colorado magistrate Maritza Braswell increasingly face stacks of filings drafted with AI tools by people without a lawyer. Many can't afford one or have cases too small to interest one. The catch: AI-written briefs often contain fabricated rulings and false citations, adding strain to already overloaded courts.

Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham Cheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, according to England’s qualifications watchdog. Ian Bauckham, the head of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), also revealed that GCSEs and A-level courses in England were being sc…

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna backed the Trump administration's executive order on AI and cybersecurity, favoring light government guardrails over active intervention. The order aims to strengthen national cyber defenses but doesn't compel AI firms to share details about their latest models.

Labour MP Jess Asato is taking legal action against Elon Musk's xAI, saying its Grok tool helped a user create fake sexualised images of her — part of a wave of such images that flooded X. Asato said in January that being depicted in a bikini without her consent was 'violating'.

Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand. Drones will need to be programmed with moral guidelines as AI-driven decision making reduces human involvement in autonomous warfare, according to the former UK spy chief.

Accelerated computing has transformed industrial engineering, cutting simulation times from weeks to hours. The remaining bottlenecks now sit around the simulation itself: CAD design, meshing, simulation setup and debugging, plus post-processing and report generation.

Exclusive: IPPR thinktank calls for new measures to boost employees’ influence at ‘pivotal moment’ in history Workers urgently need more bargaining power over the way AI is adopted in the workplace to ensure the benefits are fairly shared, according to a TUC-backed report from a leading thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a package of measures to boost employees’ influence at what it calls a “pivotal moment in the h…

Claude Opus 4.8 introduces practical updates for development workflows, including dynamic workflows with parallel sub-agents for tasks like code migration and bug detection. The release also reintroduces manual effort control so developers can allocate compute based on task complexity.

CNN has filed suit against Perplexity in New York, alleging that the AI answer engine generates "verbatim" copies of CNN articles and serves content normally locked behind the publisher's paywall. The complaint also claims Perplexity ignored CNN's attempts to block its crawlers. CNN insists that journalistic work cannot be reused without permission or compensation.

Solo Swift Crafter revisits their initial misunderstandings about OpenClaw, an AI-driven system for managing complex, ongoing tasks. Early on, they saw it as a straightforward automation framework, focusing on surface-level features like task summaries and email handling.

Artificial intelligence has become a cornerstone of modern workflows, but its reliability is only as strong as the foundation it operates on. Nate Jones examines a striking example involving a law firm that faced legal consequences after submitting fabricated citations generated by an AI model.

The most powerful AI CEOs are splitting into rival camps. Anthropic is openly warning about large-scale white-collar job losses — co-founder Chris Olah recently called it a "real possibility". OpenAI's Sam Altman sounds far more optimistic and is walking back his own earlier doom forecasts.

Definition of green facilities made in 2022, before release of ChatGPT, says Action to Protect Rural Scotland A Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume of carbon emissions being ignored, according to an analysis by a Scottish charity. “Green datacentres” are at the heart of Scotland’s ambitions to develop economically.

Reporter Liz Lopatto spent a month covering the Musk v. Altman trial and describes the courthouse as a zoo, with protests outside every day. Both tech CEOs polarize strongly, attracting heavy media attention.

The UK Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after thinktank Demos found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election. Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, raising worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK.

For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the top AI labs now chasing similar success, one seems particularly well-poised to make agents succeed at a large scale: Google.

The DOJ's lawsuit is part of a federal push to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreach. In April, the US Justice Department joined Elon Musk's xAI in suing Colorado to kill its AI anti-discrimination law. When the federal government sides with a billionaire against a state trying to protect residents from AI bias, it's no longer just a Colorado story.

Five charts illustrate how deeply ChatGPT has worked its way into everyday life in just two and a half years. New book releases, scientific papers and even self-filed lawsuits are surging in categories where users lean on the tool as a writing aid. At the same time, the speed of adoption raises hard questions about quality, originality and accountability.

The White House plans to release an executive order on cybersecurity and AI safety as soon as this week, Axios reports. The order pushes a voluntary framework for AI developers to inform the government about new frontier model releases, focused on cybersecurity around advanced systems.

A new lawsuit alleges Pizza Hut's AI-driven store control system is so dysfunctional it has wasted $100 million. The system was meant to optimize operations across thousands of locations but is described by plaintiffs as a costly disaster. The case highlights the gap between AI promises in retail automation and what large-scale rollouts actually deliver.

The Trump administration defended its designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk in federal court, even as it explores adopting Anthropic's most powerful model, Mythos, to fight cyber threats. The Pentagon argues Anthropic is unreliable because its AI-safety stance might lead it to pull the plug at any time, and the company refused to sign on to an "all lawful use" standard.

The Take It Down Act, signed by President Trump, is now fully in force: social platforms must quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate imagery once notified. Distributing such material — real or AI-generated — has been a crime since May.

Kevin Warsh hasn't even been sworn in as Federal Reserve chair, and his first major test has already arrived. Global bond markets are pushing borrowing costs markedly higher amid energy supply disruptions, AI-fueled demand for capital, and massive fiscal deficits. The yield on 30-year US Treasuries has surged to 5.11%, its highest since 2007 — up from 4.63% in February.

Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers Business live – latest updates Anthropic is to brief the global finance watchdog on the implications of its Claude Mythos AI model, whose potential threat to cyber defences has alarmed experts. The US startup will discuss Mythos with the Financial Stability Board, which is chaired by the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey.

A group of more than 60 loyal allies of President Trump is urging him to test and approve the most powerful AI models before they are released, according to a new letter shared first with Axios. The letter — signed by Steve Bannon and conservative anti-AI activists Amy Kremer and Brendan Steinhauser — puts a vocal faction of the MAGA base at odds with the White House's hands-off approach to AI.

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk's and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI.

Google has expanded its spam policy to cover attempts to manipulate its AI in search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. Search Engine Land reports the new clause explicitly covers prompt-injection spam and manipulated training or retrieval content. For SEO teams, the message is clear: AI visibility is becoming its own compliance discipline, and generative tricks without real substance will eventually get caught.

After years of dismissing AI safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now appear ready to back regulation. The episode unpacks what changed politically, talks with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the Mythos AI fallout, and walks through the latest AI industry mess.

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered their closing arguments Thursday in the high-profile federal trial. The nine-person jury begins deliberations next week, with the outcome hinging on whether Sam Altman and OpenAI broke earlier agreements by restructuring the lab into a for-profit. A verdict could carry broad implications for governance at other AI labs.

Today saw closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial — and it was a demolition derby. Musk's lawyer Steven Molo stumbled repeatedly: he accidentally called co-defendant Greg Brockman "Greg Altman," wrongly claimed Musk wasn't seeking money and had to be corrected by the judge.

Altman trial, an unusual exhibit drew attention: a trophy inscribed 'Never stop being a jackass. ' OpenAI employees had bought it for researcher Josh Achiam after Musk called him that name. The backstory: Achiam, who worked on AI safety, had questioned Musk's plan to race OpenAI ahead of Google when Musk was leaving the company.

Karen Hao argues that fixating on whether Altman is untrustworthy — or whether Musk is even less so — distracts from the deeper AI problem. The two ex-OpenAI co-founders are now in a vicious courtroom feud in California: Musk alleges Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman tricked him into funding the nonprofit before restructuring it into a for-profit entity.

After two weeks of testimony from witnesses portraying him as a 'lying snake', Sam Altman took the stand himself in the OpenAI vs Musk trial. Altman pushed back on the charity-theft allegations, accusing Musk of trying to 'kill' OpenAI twice. He stayed composed and even folksy on the stand — but legal observers note that personal charm rarely outweighs documentary evidence with a jury.

US actor Demi Moore urges her Cannes peers to work with AI rather than fight it, calling resistance a losing battle. She insists, however, that the technology can never replace true art created by humans. Moore made the remarks during a press conference as a member of the Cannes film festival jury, where she was asked about AI's impact on the industry and whether more regulation is needed.

Hermes Agent, developed by Newest Research, is now available as a desktop application, offering a graphical interface that builds on its previous command-line functionality. According to World of AI, the app includes features such as persistent memory, which enables it to retain information across sessions and user modeling, allowing for personalized interactions based on individual […] The post New Hermes Agent Desktop App is Replacing OpenClaw appeare…

OpenClaw's approach to AI memory optimization has sparked significant interest, particularly with its implementation of the dreaming feature. This process, which enhances memory by consolidating and refining stored information during downtime, is divided into two phases: a light phase for organizing short-term data and a deep phase for promoting durable insights to long-term memory.

AI systems like Anthropic's Mythos are surfacing software vulnerabilities that human pentesters miss — at a pace defenders struggle to match. Trump officials are now revisiting their hands-off stance, since the same tools also empower attackers. New rules for cyber-AI are on the table, balancing innovation against rising risk.

A new generation of cuddly, connected AI companions is reshaping play, bedtime, and make-believe. These toys respond to voices, learn preferences, and increasingly replace traditional play patterns. Privacy advocates and some lawmakers are pushing for bans, citing unclear handling of kids' voice data and behavior.

AWS walks through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on SageMaker AI to make reward signals checkable and transparent. The technique works best where outputs can be objectively verified — math reasoning, code generation or symbolic tasks. Layered techniques like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and few-shot examples on the GSM8K dataset push accuracy further.

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool aimed at AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Users who funnel research through their AI of choice into audio summaries or personal podcasts can route those outputs straight into their Spotify feed. Setup is simple: install the CLI from GitHub, then append "and save to Spotify" to your usual prompt.

AI was founded on the premise that machines might one day improve themselves — a vision I. Good captured in 1966 with the term "intelligence explosion. " Recent progress suggests parts of that loop are already in motion.

Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthrough The otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude.

Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit Apple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024. Plaintiffs accused the California tech giant of having “promoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not e…

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model Five major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models. Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pi…

President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints. 15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most powerful new models on Earth. AI has crossed a threshold no administration can ignore, accelerated by a new class of models that can hunt cybersecurity flaws with extraordinary speed.

Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’ Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week. In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google DeepMind, the co…

Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career. Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, as…

An investigation has found that an AI system used to estimate how much Kenyans can afford for healthcare has systematically driven up costs for the poorest. President William Ruto's flagship healthcare programme — meant to replace Kenya's decades-old national insurance system — launched in October 2024, but the algorithm favours wealthier citizens.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenClaw is an open source AI agent designed to act as a fully autonomous “AI employee,” handling tasks such as coding, research and device control. Alex Finn outlines the setup process, emphasizing the importance of using personal devices or dedicated machines instead of Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

Elizabeth Warren is warning that the AI industry shows striking parallels to the conditions that caused the 2008 financial crisis. While acknowledging AI's enormous potential, she's alarmed by the massive spending and borrowing practices of AI companies.

OpenAI is rolling out cloud-based workspace agents for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teacher plan users. These agents can autonomously handle tasks like gathering product feedback from the web and posting summaries to Slack, or drafting follow-up emails in Gmail. The launch follows growing industry interest in autonomous AI agents and positions ChatGPT as a platform for business process automation.

Microsoft Research has introduced AutoAdapt, a system for automating the domain adaptation of large language models. Adapting LLMs to specialized fields like law, medicine, and cloud incident response typically requires slow, manual work that's hard to reproduce—AutoAdapt aims to streamline this. The system promises to make LLMs more reliable and performant in high-stakes environments without extensive manual tuning.

An AI-powered robot named Ace, developed by Sony AI, has beaten elite players at table tennis in a significant achievement for robotics. Playing under official rules, Ace won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost both matches against professional players. The feat is hailed as a milestone for a machine competing against human athletes in a real-world competitive sport.

Sullivan & Cromwell apologises to New York federal judge for string of errors in documents for Prince Group case Business live – latest updates The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence. Andrew Dietderich, the co-head of the firm’s global restructuring group, apologised in a letter to the New Yo…

John Ternus ascends the throne – but Cook will stay on to manage tech giant’s foreign policy as executive chair Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after seeing The Jellicle Ball, a revival of Cats that I found fabulous and which the Guardian called “thrillingly new”.

Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the 'Uber for nursing' industry to expand gig work in healthcare, according to a report by the AI Now Institute. The report finds this expansion comes at the expense of workers' rights, protections, and pay. Healthcare staffing platforms use AI to place nurses in hospitals while lobbying states to weaken existing labor protections.

Agensi is a curated marketplace for SKILL. md skills — the folder-plus-instructions format Anthropic created for teaching AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex new capabilities. Creators publish skills, users install them into their agents.

Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. Anthropic says the model, Mythos Preview, excels at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and could pose a severe risk to economies, public safety and national security. But is this the whole story?

The White House and Anthropic are in active discussions about deploying the AI firm’s powerful new model, Mythos Preview, within the federal government — despite ongoing efforts to blacklist the company as a supply chain risk. Anthropic is in a bitter feud with the Pentagon, but even U.

New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errors Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal court of Australia has warned the legal profession about the dangers of using generative artificial intelligence in legal proceedings, issuing new rules for its use, with potential financ…

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Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections Ken, a copywriter for a large, Miami-based cybersecurity firm, used to enjoy his job. But then the “workslop” started piling up. Workslop is an unintended consequence of the AI boom.

The legal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is intensifying ahead of trial later this month. OpenAI accused Musk of orchestrating a last-minute "legal ambush" with new proposals designed to inject chaos into the proceedings. At stake is whether OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit structure contradicts its original nonprofit mission – a question with major implications for AI governance broadly.

The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AI OpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter – but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around “a slate of people-first ideas”. It’s the latest move in an aggressive effort by the major AI players to reshape the narrative around th…

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler.

Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests A high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligence efforts made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk’s AI company earlier this year, according to government ethics records released this month. The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when…

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Lawyers for Robert Morales’s family said chatbot ‘may have advised the shooter’ on how to carry out shooting The family of a man who was killed at Florida State University last year plans to sue ChatGPT and its parent organization, OpenAI, for allegedly telling the accused gunman how to carry out the mass shooting. Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales wrote in a statement they had learned the shooter was in “constant communication with ChatGPT” ahea…

- Three YouTube channels – h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf, and Golfholics – have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple. - The accusation: Apple illegally bypassed YouTube's 'controlled streaming architecture' to scrape copyrighted videos for AI training. - The legal basis is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published a video on April 3rd directly threatening OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi. - The video appeared on an Iranian state-backed outlet's X account and vows the 'complete and utter annihilation' of US-linked energy and tech companies in the region. - It shows footage of OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate facility in the UAE, currently under construction.

- Tech-industry-backed interest groups and PACs are funneling large sums into the 2026 US midterm elections to support AI-friendly politicians. - The groups explicitly position themselves as backing lawmakers who support Trump's AI and data center agenda. - A spokesperson for one such group stated openly: the cavalry is coming for those who stand with the president – and against those who don't.

- Suno claims its system detects and blocks copyrighted material – but the filters are alarmingly easy to bypass. - With minimal effort and free software, users can generate AI imitations of songs like Beyoncé's 'Freedom', Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid', and Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' that are dangerously close to the originals.

- Anthropic has banned OpenClaw, an unofficial third-party Claude client, from its terms of service – using it with a Claude subscription is now an explicit ToS violation. - The trigger, according to Prompt Engineering, is not a privacy issue but a technical one: OpenClaw disrupts Anthropic's prompt caching mechanisms, driving up compute costs.

- Starting April 4, 2026 at 3PM ET, Anthropic ends free Claude access through third-party apps like OpenClaw. - Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, announced on X that users accessing Claude via external tools now need an extra usage bundle or their own API key.

- Starting April 4, 2026, Claude subscribers can no longer use OpenClaw against their subscription limits – Anthropic notified affected users via email on Friday evening. - Anyone wanting to continue using OpenClaw with Claude must switch to a separate pay-as-you-go option billed on top of the existing subscription fee.

- OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a daily live talk show positioning itself as a rival to Bloomberg and CNBC. - The show runs up to three hours on weekdays and has featured Sam Altman plus executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and a16z. - Average viewership is around 70,000 per episode, with revenues exceeding $5 million.

- OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent designed to automate tasks and integrate AI-driven solutions into existing workflows. - A step-by-step guide by Corbin covers secure cloud deployment of OpenClaw, beginning with setting up a proper SSH tunnel. - The guide targets beginners who want to run 24/7 AI automations without leaving security gaps.

- Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a Munich court, alleging copyright infringement by ChatGPT. - The case centers on the popular German children's book series 'The Little Dragon Coconut' by author and illustrator Ingo Siegner. - Penguin's legal team prompted ChatGPT to write a story in the style of the series and claims the output mimicked the content too closely.

- NVIDIA and Emerald AI announced a collaboration at CERAWeek to treat AI data centers as dynamic, grid-responsive assets rather than fixed power drains. - The approach lets AI factories ramp consumption up or down in real time based on grid conditions – absorbing surplus or shedding load during stress events.

- California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring the state to develop new AI policies within four months. - The focus is on public safety and civil rights protections – a direct pushback against Trump's federal deregulation push. - AI companies seeking state contracts in California will need to comply with the new standards.

- David Sacks is leaving his official White House role but remains co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), with a broader remit across tech policy. - Operating outside government means no ethics constraints – but sustained direct influence over Trump's AI agenda.

- OkCupid (Match Group) has settled an FTC case rooted in alleged data misuse dating back to 2014. - The FTC claims OkCupid shared roughly 3 million user photos with AI company Clarifai without user consent. - Clarifai uses such data to power facial recognition and content moderation tools.

- Suno released version 5.5 with a stronger focus on customization, giving users finer control over style, structure, and sound. - The music industry is reportedly following a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding AI-generated music. - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty to committing streaming fraud using AI-generated music to manipulate royalty payouts.

- TikTok's ad policies require AI-generated content to be labeled, but enforcement is clearly failing in practice. - Samsung posted multiple videos through its TikTok accounts that appear to be AI-generated without any AI disclosure label. - Fine print in the ads frequently omits the required disclosure, even from companies that publicly claim to support AI transparency.

Court documents from Elon Musk lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI reveal that Mark Zuckerberg texted Musk in February 2025 to praise his DOGE work and offer assistance. Zuckerberg wrote that Meta teams were on alert to remove content doxxing or threatening DOGE staff.

- David Sacks, venture capitalist and tech billionaire, has stepped down as the White House Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. - His 'Special Government Employee' status legally capped his tenure at 130 days – a limit long since exceeded. - Sacks served for over a year and was a central architect of the Trump administration's aggressive AI policy agenda.

- Federal judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic a temporary injunction against the Department of Defense. - The DoD had declared Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' and ordered federal agencies to stop using Claude. - The dispute stems from Anthropic's refusal to allow its Claude model to be used in autonomous weapons systems.