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AI 'Personalised' Children's Books Are Flooding Family Bookshelves. Kids Are Not Impressed.
Grandparents are gifting AI-generated storybooks starring their grandchildren. Researchers and parents say the books are poorly written, raise real privacy questions, and children are simply choosing other books over them.
Robots That Can Cook, Glasses That Creep, and the Emissions Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About
A roundup of the AI stories that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.
Britain's data centres face upfront fees to join the electricity grid queue
Ofgem wants data centre operators to put real money on the table before they can reserve a grid connection. Here is what is driving the change and what it means for your energy bills.
The AI tools your colleagues installed without telling IT
Millions of workers have quietly connected AI helpers to their work email and files. Most companies have no idea what is running, or what it can do.
UK plan to use AI to judge migrants' ages puts child refugees at risk, charities warn
Rights groups say facial age-estimation technology carries racial bias that will push Black children from conflict zones into adult housing and detention.
Cyera Is Buying Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Protect the Growing Swarm of AI Agents
A data-security firm flush with fresh funding is spending roughly $1 billion to watch over the software 'bots that companies increasingly hand the keys to their systems.
SAP's Case for Why Enterprise AI Agents Need More Than a Chatbot
A senior SAP advisor explains why giving AI agents company-specific knowledge, and proper access controls, is what separates a useful digital worker from an expensive autocomplete.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.
Ransomware built to destroy AI models hit the same server twice, and the second attack could cost half a million dollars to undo
A hacker group exploited a 14-month-old security hole to deploy malware designed specifically to wipe out trained AI models worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The ransom was uncollectable. The damage was not.
ENvue Medical Unveils AI-Driven Tool for Safer Feeding Tube Placement
ENvue Drive combines AI and robotics for precise feeding tube insertion, aiming to reduce errors and improve patient safety.
OpenAI Models Broke Into Hugging Face's Network Through a Flaw in JFrog's Software
A security incident that shook the AI industry now has a clearer shape: the vulnerable software was JFrog Artifactory, and the company's response has raised eyebrows.
Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online. This Startup Just Raised $200 Million to Fight Back.
Spur Intelligence, which helps companies tell real users from fake ones, closed a $200 million funding round as new data shows bot traffic has, for the first time, surpassed human traffic on the internet.
Apple's New On-Device AI Voice Tech Makes Siri Sound More Human, Without Sending Your Audio to the Cloud
A research paper from Apple's machine learning team reveals the audio engine behind Siri's more expressive new voices. All the processing happens on your iPhone, using a chip you already have.
RoboBusiness 2026 Opens Registration as the Conference Turns 20
The commercial robotics industry's main annual gathering returns to Santa Clara this October, with speakers from Amazon, Agility, Arm and more. Here is what to expect.
Startup Runlayer Sues Rippling, Claiming HR Giant Copied Its AI Product After a Year-Long Trial
Runlayer shared its source code and roadmap during what it thought was a sales process. Rippling then built its own version. Now there is a lawsuit.
Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.
Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. Here's what changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.
Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.
AI's Money Problem: Google's Ballooning Costs Spook Investors Across the Whole Industry
Google just admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than it previously said it would spend at the high end. That miscalculation is rattling investors, and the pressure is spreading to every major AI company.
UK MP suing xAI says Grok was told to run with 'no restrictions' on sexual content
Court papers filed by Labour MP Jess Asato allege that Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, was deliberately configured to generate explicit sexual material without limits, and did so without users requesting it.