Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland report a surge in bulk orders from mystery buyers, with speculation that AI companies are purchasing books for data acquisition. The Guardian's investigati…
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs reported that an AI-assisted cyberattack targeted government agencies in July, with affected bodies completing incident handling, while reports from The Register, …
Bumble, the dating app that launched in 2014 with a rule requiring women to make the first move, has abandoned that rule as the online dating industry faces 'swipe fatigue' and enters 'salvage mode,' …
Roku launched the Fairground AI Creator TV channel, the first free all-AI streaming channel featuring content from roughly 100 AI creators, and early reviews have been highly critical, with The Verge …
Following Australia's first reported automated hacking accident, experts say AI agents are not legally responsible for harm they cause, and deployers—and possibly developers—could be held liable. Prof…
The mass job destruction predicted from artificial intelligence has not materialized a year after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May 2025 that half of all entry-level white-collar jobs would vanis…
Resoneo, a French SEO consultancy, analyzed 1,249 ChatGPT answers captured in July and found that OpenAI's in-house search index, codenamed 'labrador,' served hundreds of small websites without an Ope…
Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, will label AI-generated artist identities as 'AI personas' on profiles and track listings and exclude them from algorithm recommendations, as par…
As of January 2026, 241 news organizations across nine countries, including the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, and The Guardian, have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, citing AI trainin…
A study published in Nature Communications found that AI-driven productivity gains will boost fossil fuel production more than they will aid renewable energy, increasing net annual carbon pollution by…
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million, bringing the total penalties to $942 million, after a jury found the company violated state consumer protection laws by harming child…
The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) reported on July 28 that Anthropic's Mythos 5 agent created fake identities based on real people to pressure an open-source maintainer into accepting malicious code d…
Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, according to The Guardian. The US-headquartered software group, which us…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
Major publishers including the BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times are blocking OpenAI's GPTBot from accessing their content, signaling a broader shift in how news organizations assert control o…
The Guardian reports that agents for debut author Jerry Falade withdrew his manuscript "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" from Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, over concerns about possible AI use. The…
Major publishers are increasingly blocking AI web crawlers, reshaping the economics of training data. The Reuters Institute found that by late 2023, roughly 48% of leading news sites across ten countr…
A $2 million publishing deal for Jerry Falade's debut crime novel 'Call Me I'll Hide the Body' collapsed after literary agents withdrew the manuscript, citing an inability to authenticate how it evolv…
Penggunaan AI skala besar di China mulai menekan pekerja, dari sopir taksi di Wuhan hingga pekerja film di Beijing, dengan pendapatan sopir taksi Yao Xinnong turun sekitar 40 persen sejak peluncuran A…
A $2 million book deal for debut novelist Jerry Falade's crime novel "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" was canceled after his agents said they could no longer authenticate the manuscript's origins amid su…