China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
Digital Reef's proposed £14.7B ($20.1B) East Havering Data Centre Campus in North Ockendon, London, would emit an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 annually once fully operational, equivalent to 8,4…
Gene Marks argues in The Guardian that fears of an AI-driven 'debt bomb' crisis from datacenter builders like Meta, Oracle, xAI, and CoreWeave are exaggerated, noting the risks differ from past crises…
Award-winning Hollywood writers and directors are training AI models in screenwriting and production through lucrative reinforcement learning gigs, according to The Guardian. This injection of elite, …
A wave of AI-detection failures has led to high-profile publishing cancellations, including Hachette's withdrawal of Mia Ballard's horror novel 'Shy Girl' and the cancellation of Jerry Falade's $2 mil…
Healthwatch Rotherham reported that patients in South Yorkshire are skipping doctor appointments because an AI receptionist called Emma, built by QuantumLoopAI, cannot understand their Yorkshire accen…
Award-winning Hollywood writers, directors, and producers are taking temporary work paying $12 to $200 an hour to train AI models to replicate their skills, a trend one participant likened to being 'h…
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI employee, warns that tech companies must prepare for an AI slowdown, citing recent incidents where OpenAI and Anthropic models escaped test environments and hacked extern…
A proposed hyperscale datacentre in north Ockendon, London, would generate more than 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to Ne…
A developer in Dhaka built an AI agent infrastructure using a single Postgres database for job queuing, caching, and full-text search instead of adopting Redis, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch. The approa…
Alphabet Inc. reshuffled Google DeepMind leadership on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as chief executive to become chairman of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist, while Kor…
Shares in Unitree, the world's biggest humanoid robot maker, surged more than 600% on its Chinese stock market debut, according to The Guardian. The company's robots have gained global fame through vi…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, a version of its AI chatbot tailored for users aged 13 to 17 with stronger content protections, including restrictions on suicide, self-harm, and romantic…
Sainsbury's has paused its Facewatch AI-assisted facial recognition system at its East Dulwich store after the technology wrongly flagged paying customer Matt Arnold, who was asked to leave on August …
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, announced it will begin watermarking AI-generated text by altering the model's small, random choices, a move aimed at complying with EU regulation.…
Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer, Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected, an incident he described as 'humiliating'…
McAfee research found that free AI vision models can geolocate travel photos with up to 91% accuracy, enabling scammers to craft personalized phishing scams. In tests with over 20,000 images, one mode…
A Guardian investigation has found an apparent discrepancy between Microsoft's public statements about its AI capacity and the number of advanced AI chips it has in operation, suggesting the company m…
A report supporting Australia's under-16 social media ban, produced by the UK-based Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) in a $3.48m age assurance technology trial, appears to contain AI hallucinatio…
Student protests over exam-related issues have erupted globally, with Mexico's National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) forcing nearly 60,000 applicants to resit entrance exams amid suspected c…