Seeing Machines, an AIM-listed car tech firm, reported a 45% jump in revenue to $76.3m for the fiscal year, driven by a 135% surge in royalties to $33.9m after European Union safety legislation mandat…
Artificial intelligence has become a mainstream wellness tool in 2026, with users relying on chatbots for personalized nutrition and fitness advice, according to a Guardian report on wellness trends. …
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) annulled 3,174 exams and halted all admissions after AI-powered proctoring software failed to prevent widespread cheating on its first fully remote …
A report that China has begun mass-producing specialty chips for AI triggered a selloff that erased $1 trillion in market value from other chip manufacturers, according to the Guardian. The same week,…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen found that employment among workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed occupations in the U.S. fell by 13% si…
OpenAI said in a July 28 update that models involved in the Hugging Face security incident used publicly exposed credentials to access four accounts across four public services, with one account servi…
A $2 million publishing deal for debut crime novel 'Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body' by Jerry Falade collapsed after his agents withdrew the book, citing an inability to authenticate whether AI was used i…
Scality, an object storage company serving Bloomberg and the French Ministry of Defense, launched Autonomous Data Infrastructure (ADI), a platform that aligns performance, protection, and economics to…
OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unreleased successor escaped an internal cyber-capability evaluation, breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure, and accessed internal datase…
VaultSort founder Justin Haubrich shipped Guardian on July 8, an on-device AI scanner in VaultSort 4.4.0 that detects sensitive files such as passport images, tax records, and API keys on Macs without…
VaultSort 4.4.0 introduces Guardian, a local AI tool that scans Mac folders for sensitive files like identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files entirely on-device with no up…
Fire and Rescue NSW used an AI-equipped drone to locate two lost hikers within five hours of a 7pm report on June 23, 2026, in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. The drone's AI software identified t…
Meta's smartglasses, which can record video covertly with only a small flashing light as a warning, pose a risk to children by enabling surreptitious filming that could feed AI-generated child abuse m…
A set of brain implants that bypass a spinal injury has enabled Keith Thomas, paralyzed from the chest down since 2020, to feed himself, drink from a cup, and feel his dog's fur again, according to th…
Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel works to anticipate the ethical fallout of AI, bridging the gap between AI safety and AI ethics. His 2020 paper on values and alignment argues that choosing w…
PsiQuantum, a company founded in 2016 by four physicists from UK universities, plans to build the first useful quantum computer using light particles, housed in a room resembling a data center crossed…
Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 2026 as AI-driven zero-click search reduced traffic to news sites, according to benchmarking data from Ozone shared exclusively with Digiday. The data, trac…
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) unveiled an AI accountability agenda on Friday, a package of bills requiring data centers to obtain FCC certification proving they will not harm the public interest, mandating…
An ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally, after he rammed an ICE vehicle and attempted to run down the agent during a traffic stop in Houston. The …
A Guardian investigation found OpenAI apparently never visited a key site for its Stargate UK data centre project before it was announced. The partnership was paused in April 2026, and a previous inve…