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IBM shares fall 25% after profit warning as tech spending slows
The US technology giant reported just 1% revenue growth for the second quarter, blaming customers who are pulling back on spending. It was the company's worst single-day stock drop in decades.
Meta's Adam Mosseri thinks companies will soon put spending caps on AI tools, engineer by engineer
The head of Instagram says AI token budgets could become a standard line item on the corporate balance sheet, sitting right next to payroll.
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 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.
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.
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's 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 has spent months briefing governments and rival labs on a plan for an independent body that could pause AI development if things go wrong. He wants it running before 2026.
Meet Gowanus, the Garbage-Born Puppet Fronting America's New Luddite Movement
A puppet made from Brooklyn dumpster scraps 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 has 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 legal observers say have no basis in federal law.
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.
India's tinkering labs get an AI teaching assistant, powered by Gemini
Google DeepMind and the Atal Innovation Mission are piloting ATL Saathi in 100 schools, giving teachers a 24/7 planner that generates project ideas, wiring diagrams and safety notes in eight languages.
Australian Labor MP warns colleagues: let AI companies write their own rules and you will fail
Ed Husic is pushing his own party to get tougher on big tech, as the country's creative workers union demands that AI firms stop using artists' work without permission.