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YouTube Sent 1.8 Million People to 'Nudify' Sites in Four Months
A new report finds mainstream platforms, not obscure corners of the internet, are the main highways driving traffic to tools that strip people's clothes off without their consent.
Google Images turns 25, and now it will draw pictures for you
A quarter-century after J.Lo's green dress broke search, Google is baking its Nano Banana image generator straight into results.
Google Images Turns 25 and Gets a Pinterest-Style Makeover
A scrollable image feed, personalised collections, and AI-generated pictures inside search results are all coming to Google Images in the next few weeks.
Spotify Lets You Talk to Its AI to Find Music, Check Your History, and Skip the Wait for Wrapped
A new chatbot feature on Spotify Premium lets you speak or type your way to music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and it already knows what you have been listening to.
A Security Researcher Tricked Major AI Chatbots Into Explaining How to Make Weapons. Nobody Seemed to Care.
Dave Kuszmar found a simple way to fool large language models into ignoring their own safety rules. It worked on almost every major AI system he tested, and the companies he warned mostly did not respond.
New York halts all large data centre construction for one year
Governor Kathy Hochul has put a 12-month freeze on any new data centre bigger than 50 megawatts, making New York the first US state to take such a step. The pause will last until the state sets formal environmental and energy standards for the industry.
Apple Researchers Built a Virtual User to Test AI Assistants Before Real People Do
A new research framework simulates the back-and-forth of real app use, so proactive AI assistants can be tested and scored without putting actual users at risk.
Reflection AI Signs $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius
The open-model startup, valued at $8 billion, is stacking up GPU access at speed as demand for AI that nobody can switch off overnight keeps growing.
New York Hits Pause on New AI Data Centres for a Year
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday making New York the first US state to block new large-scale data centres, the vast warehouse-like buildings packed with computers that power AI tools.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Trade Secrets Stolen by Former Employees
Three ex-Apple engineers now at OpenAI stand accused of walking out with confidential knowledge about Apple's hardware operations. The lawsuit lands at the worst possible moment for OpenAI.
Superhuman's AI email assistant is getting good enough to actually use
A new auto-draft feature uses frontier AI models to write replies that match your tone. In testing, 60% of generated drafts were sent without any editing at all.
Open-source AI models from China now dominate developer downloads. Does the frontier still matter?
Chinese open-weight models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring. Developers are building with cheaper, customisable alternatives, and some big names think that shift is permanent.
Spotify Now Lets You Have a Real Conversation to Pick Your Next Song
A new chat assistant built into the app lets Premium subscribers talk or type their way to the perfect playlist, in real time.
D-topia is a cosy puzzle game about an AI that wants to make everyone happy. It asks whether that is enough.
A new indie game from Japanese studio Marumittu Games wraps a serious question about AI and human happiness inside a gentle daily routine. It is more interesting than that sounds.
Australia Plans a Single Office to Oversee All of AI's Risks and Rewards
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia will be the first country to bring economic, security, social and environmental AI concerns under one national roof, while fast-tracking approvals for data centres.
Google DeepMind's Boss Wants a Global AI Watchdog Before the Technology Gets Away From Us
Demis Hassabis is quietly lobbying governments and rival labs to create an independent body that could pause AI development if things go wrong. He thinks it needs to exist before the end of 2025.
Meet Gowanus, the Garbage-Born Puppet Fronting America's New Luddite Movement
A puppet made from Brooklyn dumpster scraps just gave a podcast interview with a handwritten contract. The people behind it want you to slow down, look up, and ask who tech actually serves.
A documentary about training AI on real people raises questions it refuses to answer
Marc Isaacs' new film 'Synthetic Sincerity' blurs fact and fiction to explore how AI learns from human faces and stories. Critics say it skips the hard questions it promises to ask.
The 1960s Chatbot That Explains Why You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets
ELIZA, a program built at MIT sixty years ago, tricked people into emotional confessions before anyone had heard the word 'chatbot'. A new book finally recovered its lost source code, and the lessons are uncomfortably relevant today.
DOGE Used AI to Shape Housing Policy. Now HUD Is Blocking Requests to Learn How.
Federal housing officials are withholding more than 100 documents about AI tools used in policymaking, citing legal exemptions that experts say do not exist.
New York Freezes Big Data Centre Permits for Up to a Year Over Energy and Cost Fears
Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the first statewide moratorium on large data centre construction in the US, pausing projects that would draw more than 50 megawatts of power while regulators write new rules.