AI companies are increasingly turning to human-driven surveillance to gather training data, with startups offering free cleaning services in exchange for recording private homes. Critics argue this sh…
Graduation speakers who mentioned artificial intelligence drew audible boos from 2026 graduates across multiple U.S. campuses, with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt receiving jeers at the University of …
A developer built a production-grade Market Sentiment API that ingests unstructured global financial news feeds, parses entities, and determines sentiment polarity to expose machine-readable market si…
Google's AI search engine is returning inconsistent and incorrect answers to the simple question of how many days of the week contain the word "fish," with the tool providing a different absurd respon…
The BBC opened Thursday's edition of Question Time with AI-generated images of Winston Churchill, Frida Kahlo, Mahatma Gandhi and Emmeline Pankhurst as a staged introduction to a programme about artif…
The UK Home Office has awarded a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd to develop and test an AI facial-recognition tool that estimates the ages of asylum seekers at the border, with a planned rol…
A man received a 130-page report from data broker LexisNexis detailing six months of his and his wife's driving trips, collected without their explicit consent after he set up his car's infotainment s…
Researchers introduced GPF-LiveNews, a streaming evaluation protocol that audits how large language models frame breaking news for different audience groups. The protocol expands BBC and Reuters news …
Meta Platforms announced a workforce restructuring that includes cutting approximately 8,000 jobs, a roughly 10% reduction, and reassigning about 7,000 employees into AI-focused teams. The move comes …
South Korean authorities arrested YouTuber Kim Se-ui on suspicion of using AI voice-cloning technology and doctored screenshots to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun. The Seoul Central District Court approved …
Taylor Swift's company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in late April 2026, covering a stage photograph and two audio clips of Swift s…
The Trump administration announced a new policy requiring individuals seeking green cards to leave the United States in order to complete their application process. This change, detailed in a USCIS po…
Researchers at Cambridge University used AI and a 20-petabyte geospatial model called TESSERA to help identify hedgehogs in images, leading to a BBC News article and a flurry of media appearances. The…
James O'Malley's newsletter 'Odds and Ends #98' covers his acting debut, HS2 problems, AI fixing Britain's plumbing, and Palantir's performance. The post also includes a podcast discussing BBC's NIMBY…
A BBC investigation found that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini can be easily manipulated to spread misinformation by publishing a single, well-crafted blog post online. In response, Googl…
A new browser called Web of Babel allows users to visit any possible URL, real or imagined, by rendering web pages from the latent space of a large language model. The tool generates content for every…
Tech giants like TikTok, Google, and Meta use invisible tracking tools called "pixels" embedded on websites to collect sensitive personal data—such as health information or browsing habits—from visito…