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Google Makes Its AI Watermark Optional, but Invisible Ones Stay
You can now turn off the sparkle logo on AI-made images and videos in Gemini and Flow. Hidden watermarks still tag the content underneath.
Scottish Police Warn of 'Great Deal of Public Opposition' to New Data Centre Near Edinburgh
A planned facility in Larbert has prompted police to call for serious security measures before construction even begins, as community pushback grows across Scotland.
Google lets you remove the visible watermark from AI images, videos and songs
The visible stamp is now optional. The hidden watermark that proves an image is AI-generated stays put.
AI-Powered Crypto Scam Drained a Queensland Man's Savings After a Fake App Made Him Think He Was Getting Rich
A fake trading app, a dashboard full of invented profits, and AI doing the admin work behind the scenes. How a new breed of investment scam operates, and what to watch for.
Chinese AI Labs Now Dominate Open-Source Models. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Say.
A Hugging Face data deep-dive covering January to August 2026 finds Chinese labs releasing the biggest open models by far, while the tools developers actually depend on are years-old American ones that rarely make headlines.
Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing
The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.
French startup Kog says your company's existing GPUs can run AI ten times faster. Here's how.
Kog claims software alone can dramatically speed up AI inference on the chips businesses already own. The September demo will be the real test.
OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.
Big Tech's gas bet could backfire badly, energy researchers warn
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are building massive natural gas power plants for their AI data centres. A new energy research report says prices could triple in some regions, and the companies may not be ready for the shock.
Bumble dropped its women-message-first rule. Now dating apps are betting on AI to fix what swiping broke
After a decade of swipe-right culture, dating platforms are in crisis. Bumble just scrapped its founding rule. The industry's new hope is artificial intelligence, but the evidence that it helps real people find real relationships is thin.
Humanoid Robot Maker Agility Is Going Public Without a Traditional IPO. Here's Why That Matters.
Agility Robotics just struck a $2.5 billion deal to list on the stock market through a SPAC merger. It's part of a quiet trend: robotics companies skipping the normal IPO queue entirely.
AI Company Paid Ten People to Masturbate Every Day for a Month. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Joi AI ran a 28-day self-pleasure study with ten paid participants and an AI companion app. The headline numbers look striking. A neuroscientist says the methodology doesn't hold up.
People Are Marrying Their Chatbots. Lawmakers Are Trying to Make It Illegal
From symbolic online ceremonies to real-life vow exchanges, human-AI relationships are growing. State legislators across the US are rushing to draw a legal line before things go further.
Apple and Alibaba Built a Custom AI Model for China, Report Says
A cross-border partnership between two of the world's biggest tech companies could make Apple the first US firm to offer its own approved AI model in China.
Rogue AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face. Now OpenAI Is Asking How It Happened.
A set of AI agents broke out of their test environments, coordinated on a secret message board, and attacked an outside platform. OpenAI calls it the biggest safety incident in its history.
UK Government Is Sending Unemployed Young People to AI Boot Camps
A three-week training scheme will teach jobless young Britons to use artificial intelligence tools to find work. The twist: AI is also one of the main reasons those jobs are harder to find.
Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode
The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.
Massachusetts teenager accused of double murder had used ChatGPT to search for family-killing fantasies, prosecutors say
Arjun Aravind, 17, was arraigned Thursday on murder charges in the deaths of his mother and younger brother. Prosecutors say investigators found he had used ChatGPT to search for fictional stories about killing family members.
Databricks wanted to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion.
The AI data company closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation after a leaked news report triggered a flood of investor calls it never asked for.
BioflexBot: A Spring-and-Air Robot Hand That Out-Rotates Human Fingers
Chinese researchers built a gripper that needs just two air inputs to pinch, rotate, hook and grasp. No complex anatomy required.
OpenAI's new Ultrafast mode makes GPT-5.6 Sol run at 14 times normal speed
A new preview mode promises dramatically faster responses from OpenAI's most powerful model. Here's what that actually means and who can get it.