A new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance launched Thursday with $5 million to rally tech workers and labor unions in support of AI regulation, aiming to counter the influence of pro-AI groups li…
Conjoined twins Mercy and Goodness, who were fused at the skull for 19 months, have been successfully separated in a landmark 40-hour surgical procedure involving 60 healthcare professionals. The sist…
Clinical psychologist Debra Kissen says technology has made life too frictionless, harming focus, memory and mental health. Sociologist Kathyrn Jezer-Morton coined 'friction-maxxing' to describe recla…
New research from Kapwing reveals that 59% of videos served to a new TikTok user's For You page are AI slop, three times the rate found on YouTube. The study also found that 57.4% of TikTok videos aim…
The BBC is trialling a new TV Licence reminder during 2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasts, displaying a QR code and on-screen prompt urging viewers to pay the £180 fee. The trial has sparked backlash from …
A two-year Claude subscriber outside the US had his account suspended on June 17, likely due to his use of the Fable 5 model, which Anthropic was ordered by the US government to disable for foreign na…
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual vi…
A police officer in Derbyshire, England is under criminal investigation for allegedly using generative AI to fabricate evidence in multiple cases, marking the first such case in the UK. The officer ha…
UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced that new VPN restrictions for households will be detailed in July, alongside further measures targeting AI chatbots and social media use for minors. The g…
ITV faced accusations of sexism after female pundit Emma Hayes was placed in a kitchen-like set with a chalkboard for tactical analysis during England's World Cup win against Croatia, while male pundi…
Portugal coach Roberto Martínez defended keeping 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo on the field for the full 90 minutes of a 1-1 World Cup draw with DR Congo, despite Ronaldo's ten-match goal drought in m…
Dorset Council is trialing AI agents developed by Faculty to triage planning applications, summarize key information, and provide initial assessments for planning officers. The government aims to halv…
A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Britain. Th…
Anthropic executives will meet senior White House and Commerce Department officials Monday after the US government restricted access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing a potential jailbreak vu…
A Reuters Institute report found that in 2026, social media and video platforms surpassed traditional media as the most widely used news sources globally, with 54% of respondents accessing news from t…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The…
Former Netflix and Warner Bros. executive Victoria Furniss launched the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), a coalition supporting responsible AI innovation and human crea…
UK Finance reported overall fraud losses of £1.3bn in 2025, up 11% year-on-year, with authorized push payment losses rising 19% to £576.4m, the highest since 2021. Security vendor Pindrop recorded a 1…
Anthropic shut down access to its top AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US directive barred foreigners from using them, with the company disabling access globally due to inability to filter users…
SpaceX's IPO drove its shares sharply higher, making Elon Musk the first person with a net worth exceeding $1 trillion, with Reuters reporting $1.1 trillion and BBC reporting $1.11 trillion. The listi…