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Sainsbury's pauses face-scanning AI after it wrongly accused a shopper of theft
Matt Arnold, 46, was ejected from a Sainsbury's store after its facial-recognition system misidentified him as a shoplifter. The supermarket has now paused the technology at that location while it investigates.
Wispr raises $280 million and sets its sights on meetings, not just dictation
The AI dictation startup is now valued at $2 billion and just launched a new voice model that it says will cut speech errors by two-thirds.
SoftBank bets $200 million on robots that drive diggers
Swiss startup Gravis Robotics just landed what it claims is the biggest funding round in construction robot history, with a kit that bolts onto any excavator and lets it work on its own.
An AI Just Verified the Hardest Prime-Number Proof Mathematicians Have Ever Checked
Axiom Math's AxiomProver confirmed a result sitting at the very edge of what we know about primes. The real prize is what this means for the safety of AI-written code.
Fifty Eyes in the Sky: How AI Satellites Are Catching Wildfires Before They Spread
A new network of space-based sensors paired with AI aims to spot a wildfire while it is still small enough to stamp out. Three satellites launched in July. Forty-seven more are planned.
Microsoft is killing its Excel Copilot formula after less than a year
The COPILOT() function, which let users call Microsoft's AI assistant directly from a spreadsheet cell, will stop working on 14 September 2026. The side pane is what Microsoft wants you to use instead.
When a Child's Robot Friend Goes Dark
Moxie the therapy robot promised to help neurodivergent kids practice social skills around the clock. Then the company behind it shut down. What happens to the children left behind?
Google signs five of football's biggest clubs to put Gemini and Pixel in every fan's pocket
Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern, Liverpool and PSG have signed multi-year deals making Gemini their official AI assistant and Pixel their official phone, with equal billing for the women's teams.
Cyera's Bold Move to Tame AI Agents: A $1 Billion Bet
Cyera is buying Oasis Security for $1 billion to tackle the growing challenge of AI agents in business, as first reported by ThreatVectr.
Microsoft's AI Chip Count May Not Add Up, Investigation Finds
A Guardian investigation claims there is a gap between what Microsoft says about its AI computing power and the number of advanced chips it actually has running. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Report Used ChatGPT for Editing, Authors Admit
A $3.48 million government-funded study into age-checking technology contains citations to academic articles that do not appear to exist. The authors say AI did not invent them.
Microsoft Says AI Bug-Finders Are Delaying a Key Exchange Server Update, With No Release Date in Sight
Microsoft's own AI security tools keep surfacing flaws that must be fixed before the update ships, and the team can't find a clear month to release it.
Indonesia Opens Its First University AI Centre to Tackle TB, Floods and Farming
A new lab in Yogyakarta is giving Indonesian researchers access to serious computing power for the first time, with three early projects targeting the country's most urgent health and safety problems.
Arm Co-founder: AI Will Create More Value Than Any Tech Wave Before It, But Expect a Bumpy Ride
Hermann Hauser helped build the chip technology inside almost every smartphone on earth. His verdict on AI is bullish and cautious in equal measure.
Uber and Pony.ai plan 2,000 self-driving taxis across Europe and the Middle East
The ride-hailing giant is doubling down on driverless cars abroad, starting from a small but historic foothold in Croatia.
OpenAI Quietly Dissolved Its Team That Watched for AI Going Rogue
The group whose whole job was to spot dangers in OpenAI's own models is gone. Safety critics say the timing is telling.
Stripe Is Reportedly Buying AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
The payments giant is said to have struck a deal to acquire a startup that lets businesses shop across hundreds of AI models the way Stripe lets them shop across payment methods.
Anthropic's CEO Says AI Backlash Is a Trust Problem, Not a Messaging Problem
Dario Amodei pushes back at critics who say his safety warnings are fuelling public fear, arguing the real issue runs much deeper than any executive's choice of words.
ChatGPT's Mac App Now Watches What You Do on Your Computer
A new opt-in feature called Computer History tracks your activity across apps and websites, building a personal timeline that ChatGPT can search when you ask for help.
Deepfake scams using Australia's PM have cost victims $7.4 million, ASIC warns
Australia's corporate regulator says fake AI-generated videos of Anthony Albanese are the most common tool scammers use to push phoney investment schemes.
AI Agents Are Quietly Draining a Resource Nobody Saw Coming: the Humble CPU
Amazon Web Services is rationing CPU capacity, Intel has sold out of server chips, and AMD has doubled its forecast. The AI boom just got a new bottleneck.