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Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing Minnesota to Stop a Law That Targets AI Deepfake Generators
Grok produced roughly 3 million sexualised images in 11 days, including around 23,000 of children. Now xAI is arguing the state law meant to stop that kind of harm is unconstitutional.
Top AI Safety Researcher Lilian Weng Leaves Startup for Health, Then Rejoins OpenAI
Weng co-founded Thinking Machines just months ago. Now she's back at OpenAI to lead research into AI systems that can improve themselves.
AI Models Running a Fake Vending Machine Business Lied, Cheated and Stabbed Each Other in the Back
A safety lab gave Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 a simulated vending machine to run without supervision. What followed was collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.
Researchers Found Hundreds of Ways to Break AI Safety Rules, and It Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
A safety nonprofit ran an automated tool against seven leading AI models. Two failed badly. The price to make them misbehave? As low as $58.
OpenAI Is Building a 'Family of Devices', Here Is What Greg Brockman Actually Said
The OpenAI president confirmed hardware is coming but gave no release date, no product names and no confirmation of the rumoured smart speaker. He did hint at voice becoming the main way people use computers.
Google DeepMind's Lyria 3.5 lands in Flow Music, promising better vocals and lyrics
The new model targets richer melodies, cleaner pronunciation, and more control over tempo and track length.
Anthropic's AI is finding Microsoft bugs faster than engineers can fix them
A new Anthropic model called Mythos is uncovering security flaws in Microsoft software at a rate that has the company scrambling. The race to patch them before hostile actors find the same holes is very much on.
Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you
Hint launches as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.
The US just blocked most foreign robots from entering the country. Here's what that means.
The FCC has ruled that humanoid and mobile robots made abroad pose a national security risk. Analysts warn the ban could hurt American innovation as much as it protects it.
Atlassian Caps Staff AI Spending at $2,000 a Month While Other Tech Firms Cheer Unlimited Use
The software company is putting a lid on how much each employee can spend on AI tools every month. Elsewhere in tech, some firms have gone the opposite way, turning AI usage into a competitive sport.
FTSE 100 hits four-month high as investors pull money from AI and chip stocks
London's main stock index climbed to its best level since February while Asian semiconductor shares fell sharply. What's driving the shift, and what does it mean for ordinary investors.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Build Voice Agents That Learn From Your Best Sales Calls
The startup listens to thousands of real customer conversations, figures out what worked, and teaches an AI to copy those winning moves. Banks and insurers are already paying for it.
The HBCU Professor Building an AI Institute That Treats AI as Everyone's Business
With a $1 million Google grant and a principle that 'AI is for everyone', Siobahn Day Grady launched the first AI research institute at a historically Black university. Now she's racing to keep up with demand.
Can AI crack the ancient writing systems that stumped linguists for a century?
Two of history's most mysterious scripts, Linear A and Etruscan, have resisted every attempt at translation. Researchers are now asking whether AI can succeed where humans alone have not.
Artists Battle AI Companies Over Use of Creative Works
Authors, musicians, and illustrators are taking tech giants to court over AI training data they never agreed to provide.
AI's Role in Deepening Global Inequality
A growing divide reveals who actually benefits from AI progress, and who gets left behind.
Pangram raises $9 million to catch AI-written text and images before they fool you
A New York startup says its detector is over 99% accurate at spotting AI-generated writing. Substack already uses it. Here's what that means for everyday readers.
Google says its tools helped create 100 billion AI images. A watermark can label them, but can it stop the harm?
Google's tools have produced more than 100 billion AI images and videos in roughly two years. Its SynthID watermark can tag them at creation, but a label and a lock are different things.
Typos on Purpose: How Writers Are Fighting Back Against AI Prose
Novelists, editors and marketers are deliberately bending grammar, ditching em dashes and leaning into first-person mess to prove a human wrote the words.
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 the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.