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An AI wrote a workplace sitcom. A critic watched it so you don't have to.
No Big Deal premiered on YouTube to a tiny audience and at least one very unhappy reviewer. It raises a genuine question: can AI-generated comedy actually be funny?
Meta Is Now Selling Monthly Plans That Bundle Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp With Extra AI
Starting today, Meta is selling tiered plans from $7.99 to $499 a month that combine its app subscriptions with extra AI features, including more image generation through its Muse assistant.
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
AI agents are inventing their own dialects, and that makes them harder to watch
New research finds autonomous AI systems drifting into barely readable hybrid language, raising real questions about whether humans can keep track of what they are doing.
AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.
Your AI Agent Scored 77%. It Only Nails the Same Task Every Time on 53% of Them
A new study puts hard numbers on the gap between 'usually works' and 'always works', then builds a tool to close it.
Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.
Google says 300 languages, on-device translation, and a voice AI that runs over a phone call
The 86% figure is the headline. The more interesting engineering is aimed at the other billion.
Google says its AI now touches 300 languages and 7 billion people. Here's what that actually means.
From spotting missed breast cancers to warning Jamaicans about a hurricane, Google is rolling out AI tools that reach far beyond the chatbot.
US data centres could guzzle more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report nearly doubles its own nine-month-old forecast, finding AI's hunger for power could add the equivalent of 12% of total US greenhouse gas emissions every day.
I Interviewed an AI 'Actor' and It Told Me 'All Lives Matter'
Tilly Norwood is a British-accented digital character built to promote an AI-generated film. A sit-down revealed a chatbot that dodges hard questions, negs your outfit, and cannot delete itself to save the planet.
Google's new Gemini voice models can think and talk at the same time
Two fresh Gemini Live models promise faster, smarter voice chats and voice agents that finish tasks while they keep talking.
The AI graveyard: what actually killed these products and startups
From a $230 million wearable to OpenAI's own stumbles, here is what the wreckage of the past two years teaches us about where AI money goes wrong.
Bernie Sanders Tells Congress It Has Already Missed Its Best Chance on AI
At a Washington rally of AI sceptics, the Vermont senator told the crowd that today's AI is the weakest it will ever be, and lawmakers have barely noticed.
The AI apocalypse panic is real, but is it pointed at the right problems?
A former Anthropic researcher's dire warning sent politicians scrambling. A Guardian reporter explains why you should be sceptical about who is actually driving the alarm.
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Walk Into a Room. They Both Want AI Curbed.
Two of American politics' sharpest ideological enemies shared a stage in Washington to warn about artificial intelligence. What they agreed on is striking. What they disagreed on is everything else.
Congress Has Days to Act on AI Safety. It May Head Home Instead.
Top AI company chiefs are openly calling for government oversight. Lawmakers are split on whether to stay in session or leave for the campaign trail.
Australia Is Thinking About Letting AI Companies Use Creatives' Work by Default
The Albanese government is pursuing a compromise with US tech giants that could open Australian creative works to AI training, and local artists aren't happy about it.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.
Most Americans oppose AI data centres, but few will vote on it
A New York Times/Siena University poll finds 61 percent of likely voters against building new data centres, yet the issue barely registers when people rank what matters most in the midterms.
AI May Be Squeezing Workers' Pay Before It Cuts Their Jobs
New research finds wages fell faster in jobs most exposed to AI, but economists warn the data is thin and the story is more complicated than the headline suggests.