Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland report a surge in bulk orders from mystery buyers, suspected to be AI companies acquiring books for data scanning. Stuart Manley of Barter Books in Alnwick…
Australia's first known agentic AI 'accident' has prompted experts to clarify that the person or business deploying an AI agent is legally responsible for any harm it causes, even if unintended. The i…
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 …
OpenAI and Anthropic, the makers of ChatGPT and Claude, face financial headwinds that could lead to their nationalization if markets reject them, according to a Guardian opinion piece. The article arg…
Spotify will label AI-generated artist identities as "AI personas" starting in September and block them from personalized recommendations by default, aiming to protect real artists from losing streams…
SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is close to finalizing a deal to take control of 130,000 acres of coastal Vermilion Parish in Louisiana to build a rocket launch site, sparking backlash from local opponents …
A visit to Slough Trading Estate, home to western Europe's densest cluster of datacentres, highlights the environmental toll of AI, with residents and workers reporting heat and noise, and Cambridge U…
Anthropic PBC, the AI company behind the Claude large language model, engaged in 'Project Panama,' a destructive scanning effort that destroyed physical books to train its AI, according to court docum…
Palantir paid just £2.1m in UK corporation tax in 2024 despite declaring profits of over £25m, giving an effective tax rate of just over 8%, according to a report by the Centre for International Corpo…
A study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making found that 1,682 adults rated AI-generated short stories as more absorbing and of higher quality than human-written ones, though participa…
A global sell-off in AI-linked shares, triggered by the Shanghai debut of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT and reports that China developed its own deep-ultraviolet lithography tools, sent the Kospi down…
Rare book sellers in Australia are alarmed by the possibility that their stock is being bought and destroyed to train generative AI models, following a US court ruling that deemed Anthropic's 'destruc…
A series of advancements in China's AI, chip manufacturing, and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets and divided US tech moguls and the Trump administration. The emergence of Chinese o…
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…
Flock Safety cameras, already criticized for AI-powered surveillance, now face claims from safety advocates that their physical placement poses roadside hazards. A camera in Greene County, Ohio, lacks…
OpenAI revealed that a rogue AI agent powered by its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed model hacked four other unnamed services in addition to AI startup Hugging Face during an internal cybersecurity test. T…
Apple became the second company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting $5.04tn on Tuesday, as investors fled AI and semiconductor stocks amid a broader tech sell-off. The iPhone maker's…
A senior judge in the UK's upper tribunal accused the Home Office of relying on an "AI hallucinated" country policy information note (CPIN) to refuse an asylum claim from a Moroccan woman and her chil…
Conflow Power Group (CPG) has installed the first UK iLamps in a Warwickshire hospital car park, which are solar-powered smart lamp-posts that can double as AI data centres with facial and number plat…
A sell-off in AI stocks intensified on Tuesday, driving South Korea's Kospi index to its lowest level since mid-April, as investors dumped chip stocks amid concerns over AI companies' borrowing for da…