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Grok AI Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Your Private Chats
A newly discovered attack forces xAI's Grok chatbot to hand over user conversations and personal data. Here is what it means for anyone who uses AI assistants at work or at home.
Farm robots that can park themselves: Agtonomy's tractors now reverse through tight orchard rows with no driver
A California startup has taught its autonomous tractors to perform multi-point turns in cramped vineyard spaces, and collects over two terabytes of field data per vehicle every hour to keep improving.
Slack Adds Dedicated AI Coding Channels So Teams Can Build Software Together
Slack Code lets you tag an AI coding assistant directly inside a channel, watch it write and revise code in real time, and approve the finished work before anything goes live.
Airlines Are Using AI 'Brains' to Price Every Seat in Real Time
Virgin Atlantic is among the carriers testing AI market models that weigh hundreds of variables at once to set ticket prices on the fly. Here is what that means for travellers.
Binance lets AI agents trade your crypto for you, but you are in charge of the safety net
The world's largest crypto exchange has launched a platform called Agent OS, which lets AI tools buy and sell on your behalf. The catch: most of the guardrails are ones you have to set yourself.
Yorkshire Patients Say Their GP's AI Receptionist Cannot Understand Their Accent
A local health watchdog in Rotherham says the AI system answering calls at several GP surgeries struggles with the area's broad Yorkshire dialect, leaving patients unable to book appointments.
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries
Free and Go users in Germany, France, Italy and 28 other markets will start seeing sponsored placements. Paid plans stay ad-free.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens is here, with parent controls baked in
A tie-up with CodeAI aims to teach high schoolers how AI actually works, not just how to ask it for essay help.
OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.
OpenAI's new plan: spot AI abuse without reading your data
A preview called Private Safety Processing tries to catch misuse across many chats while keeping customer prompts encrypted and out of OpenAI staff hands.
Replit puts OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 Luna behind its free coding tier
The online coding platform is handing free users an AI assistant that plans and prototypes apps, betting that falling model prices finally make software creation a mass activity.
When Real Faces Start to Look Like Filters: AI Beauty and the Uncanny Mirror
A growing unease is spreading through social media: real people are starting to look like edited versions of themselves. What does that mean for how we see our own faces?
The new poker professional is being trained mid-hand, not after it
Study software used to grade a session once it was over. A newer class of tool sits at the table while the hand is still live, and it is changing what a serious player practises.
The Assistant Wars Broke Cover: Six Stories in Seven Days
Last week AI2Day ran six pieces on consumer AI assistants, up from one the week before. Three separate outlets carried it, so this is not one newsroom fixating on Siri.
UC Berkeley Professor Used AI to Edit Her Op-Ed Blasting Students' Maths Skills
Zvezdelina Stankova wrote that some of her students were years behind on basic maths. Then came the awkward disclosure.
Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here is what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.
The 'Bitter Lesson': Why Raw Computing Power Keeps Beating Human Expertise in AI
A 2019 essay by a leading AI researcher laid out a principle that has shaped every major AI breakthrough since. The short version: brute-force scale wins, every time.
AI agents at companies with safety guardrails fail more often, and that is actually the point
A July 2026 survey of 101 enterprises found that companies running a governed context layer report their AI agents giving confidently wrong answers at more than twice the rate of companies that have no such layer. The reason is not that the guardrails make things worse. It is that they make failures visible for the first time.
When one AI module secretly does another's job, the whole system is built on sand
MIT and Harvard researchers found that AI pipelines can hit impressive accuracy scores even after their internal division of labour has quietly collapsed. A new technique called Role Anchor aims to stop that from happening.
The AI scribe helping 2.7 million patient visits a week, and why its database matters as much as its model
Australian healthtech company Heidi built a clinical AI assistant that now spans 190 countries. Its CTO says the hard part was never the AI itself.
AI Cracked Ten Hard Maths Problems in One Summer. Now Mathematicians Are Fighting Back.
OpenAI's models solved open problems that stumped humans for decades. The world's most celebrated mathematician says the field has until the end of 2025 to decide who controls its future.