Iason Gabriel, a philosopher working at Google DeepMind since 2017, tries to anticipate and think through the impact of AI, but faces growing commercial and geopolitical pressures that raise questions…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is confronting the urgent challenge of crafting AI guardrails, warning that failure to implement adequate safeguards could trigger outright public resistance…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on state permitting for hyperscale AI datacenters with electrical capacity exceeding 50 megawatts, makin…
Christopher Nolan rejects Matt Damon's 'defeatist' view that their film 'The Odyssey' is the last of its kind, arguing that cinema continues to transform with new voices. Nolan also criticizes 'AI slo…
Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a bipartisan theme in US politics, but a new essay co-authored by Nathan E. Sanders and originally published in The Guardian argues that focusing on data c…
The Guardian's latest investigation reveals that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in rural Scotland misrepresented its plans to be powered entirely by on-site renewables, highlighting the physical cons…
The publisher-led Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition has released a Content Telemetry Framework for public comment, aiming to create a standard for tracking how AI systems access an…
Senator Ed Markey unveiled an AI accountability agenda on July 10, bundling nearly a dozen bills that expand federal oversight beyond frontier-model safety to include data center siting, workplace sur…
San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…
A new Australian government report finds women and university graduates are most at risk of losing jobs to AI, while those with high vocational training, such as tradespeople, are least exposed. Telem…
A University of Edinburgh-led study using AI to analyze CT scans of 1,722 chest pain patients found that those with denser chest and back muscles had a lower risk of heart attack or premature death ov…
TripAdvisor's AI review summaries are under fire after an investigation found the chatbot glossed over serious guest complaints, including food poisoning, poor hygiene, and sexual harassment, while pr…
Tripadvisor's AI summarization tool is glossing over serious complaints in hotel reviews, including mass food poisoning and sexual harassment, according to a Which? investigation. The AI described a C…
AI writing tools that polish social media posts can subtly shift their meaning, and those small biases can accumulate to steer public opinion, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institu…
A technologist's op-ed in The Guardian on AI liability contains logical flaws, including a contradictory example where the customer is held liable for an AI agent's actions, undermining its own argume…
Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to A…
A new online test from Lancaster University reveals that people can only identify AI-generated hotel reviews 60% of the time, challenging assumptions about detecting AI writing. The test highlights th…
Tripadvisor's AI-generated hotel summaries and chatbot downplay or omit reports of food poisoning, hygiene failures, and sexual harassment, according to consumer group Which? and multiple news outlets…
British actor Michael Byrne, known for roles in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' 'Braveheart,' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,' has died at age 82. The Shakespearean performer appeared…
KPMG Australia confirmed in February 2026 that 28 staff used AI tools to cheat on internal training exams since July 2025, including a partner-level auditor fined A$10,000. The partner uploaded a trai…