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Why AI-Generated Food Looks So Wrong (and So Revolting)
Restaurants and cafés are using AI image tools to promote their menus. The results, noodly, holey, deeply unsettling, are not winning any appetites. Here is the science behind why.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying Customers
Sam Altman is apologising after subscribers who pay up to $200 a month found themselves locked out of the model OpenAI called the start of 'the AGI era'.
Ukraine is selling drone war data to AI companies, and the rules haven't caught up
Millions of hours of battlefield footage are flowing to defence firms and tech start-ups. The data is valuable, the privacy risks are real, and almost nothing governs what happens next.
The AI Job-Hunt Doom Loop: Both Sides Are Using Bots and Nobody Is Winning
Job seekers are using AI to outsmart hiring software. Employers are using AI to sort through the flood of applications. It is making things worse for both of them.
Ugreen Wants to Run Your Entire Smart Home From a Box in Your Living Room
A new platform called HomeAgent keeps your cameras, files, and AI assistant local, meaning your data never has to touch the cloud. No monthly fees, either.
Why AI restaurant menus look weirdly perfect and slightly wrong
Shrimp curling into themselves, impossibly glossy buns, ice cream scoops so round they look engineered. There is a real technical reason AI food illustrations give you the creeps.
OpenClaw's Major Overhaul: What It Means for Security and Users
Version 2026.8.1 rewrites how OpenClaw handles credentials and agent isolation. If your organisation runs AI agents, here is what to check.
AI Takes a 1956 Time Trip While a Comedian's Far-Right Rally Skit Gets a Second Life in the Daily Mail
The Guardian's Weekly Beast traces how a comedian's offensive Welcome to Country parody travelled from a fringe rally to a mainstream tabloid, and what that journey reveals about how outrage gets laundered into news.
Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbing
The company, which builds large-scale data centres for clients including OpenAI and Oracle, has tripled its valuation in under a year and is now weighing a stock market listing.
Waymo opens in three new cities as the robotaxi race picks up speed
Alphabet's Waymo is now taking paying passengers in San Diego, Tampa and Denver, while Amazon-backed Zoox prepares to test its distinctive box-shaped vehicle in Houston and San Diego.
Workers Worried About AI Job Loss, But Most Haven't Lost Their Jobs Yet
A new academic paper finds that fear of AI-driven unemployment spread widely in the first years of generative AI, even as actual large-scale job displacement lagged behind the anxiety.
Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligence
A built-in privacy filter decides in real time which parts of a task stay local and which go to the cloud. Lawyers, finance teams and healthcare workers are the target audience.
AI platform cuts delivery routing time from 20 minutes to two and a half
Logistics firm OneRail has launched OmniStar, built on Nvidia's AI software, to help retailers pick the cheapest and fastest delivery option for each order in near-real time.
SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customer
The AI data centre builder backed by SoftBank and its partners OpenAI and Nvidia is heading to the stock market while carrying heavy losses and a frank admission: its near-term future depends almost entirely on OpenAI.
Mira Murati's AI Lab Is in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $40 Billion Valuation
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a valuation more than three times higher than its last round, even as some co-founders have left.
Medtronic Puts $700 Million Into Surgical Robot Maker Cornerstone Robotics
The medical device giant is buying into a second robotic surgery platform to give hospitals more choice and reach markets where its own system has not yet landed.
A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.
Abliteration.ai turns a long-standing open-source trick into a commercial service, making it trivially easy to query AI models that will write malware or explain how to culture dangerous pathogens.
Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the model
The company's new Muse Spark model offers a steep discount in exchange for access to your usage data. A straightforward trade, but worth understanding before you opt in.
GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGI
OpenAI's most powerful model yet can hack well-defended computer systems without human help. Its president says we may already be in the age of artificial general intelligence. What does that actually mean for the rest of us?
Ollie Wants to Run Your Family's Life Without Selling Your Data
The San Diego startup has quietly earned a security certification that most consumer AI assistants skip. Its bet: privacy is the one thing Big Tech cannot easily copy.
Google brings voice control to Gmail, Docs, and Keep with new AI assistants
Three new "Live" modes let you search your inbox, draft documents, and add shopping-list items just by talking. Here is who can use them today.