As it fights a growing stack of user safety and wrongful death lawsuits, OpenAI says it will introduce a “trusted contact feature” in ChatGPT that will alert a chatbot user’s designated loved one in the… Read more: OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic… Read more: M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

The FBI is using artificial intelligence in what it describes as “remote access operations,” FBI parlance for hacking, according to an FBI official. The comments, given at a national security and AI conference 404 Media… Read more: The FBI Is Using AI to Hack Targets

Last time we looked at the used electric vehicle market, it was to see what the options are if you’re spending $10,000 or less. Two solid choices emerged quickly: a BMW i3 if you don’t… Read more: There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV

This is one PR hit that’ll be hard to come back from. After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new deal with the Department of Defense last week, droves of once-loyal users vowed that they’d… Read more: Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

Mr. Deepfakes was the biggest website in the world for sharing AI-generated abuse imagery, swapping tips and tricks for more realistic results, and posting endless, fake, nonconsensual videos of everyone from celebrities to everyday people.… Read more: New Podcast Alert: The Globe-Spanning, Multi-Newsroom Hunt for Mr. Deepfakes

X said it will temporarily demonetize accounts that share AI-generated war footage without a label. The decision comes days after the US and Israel launched airstrikes in Iran and AI-slop war footage flooded social media… Read more: X Will Stop Paying People for Sharing Unlabeled AI-Generated War Footage

AI data centers face grid delays and turbine shortages, pushing developers toward gas reciprocating engines for fast, scalable gigawatt power. The post Inside the Gas Engine Strategy Powering AI’s Next Wave appeared first on TechRepublic.

Wandjina located at the ‘Cave of the Two Brothers’ in Jiliya (Secure Bay region), in Wororra Country, Kimberley Coast, WA. Author supplied Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and… Read more: AI has powerful uses for First Nations oral cultural knowledge. Here’s how

Elon Musk says X hit its highest usage ever as US and Israeli strikes on Iran drove real-time updates, videos, and political debate across the platform. The post Elon Musk: X Shatters All-Time Traffic Record… Read more: Elon Musk: X Shatters All-Time Traffic Record During US-Israeli Strikes on Iran

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is perhaps best known for raising eyebrows with public suggestions that various stellar phenomena could be evidence of extraterrestrial civilization. It’s controversial, to be sure — but if nothing else, at… Read more: Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

Most of Apple’s laptop lineup is getting refreshed today—the high-end MacBook Pros are getting M5 Pro and M5 Max chip refreshes, and the MacBook Air is getting upgraded with an M5. The more significant update… Read more: New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

SpaceX is lining up its next Starship test in the coming weeks as it eyes a mid-2027 Starlink upgrade and weighs xAI-era ambitions. The post SpaceX Sets First Starship Launch Since xAI Merger appeared first… Read more: SpaceX Sets First Starship Launch Since xAI Merger

Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet using a laser beam. In the future, this method could be used to create… Read more: A flash of laser light flips a magnet in major light-control breakthrough

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds through a dense… Read more: James Webb spots a galaxy with tentacles in deep space

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In laboratory experiments designed to mimic the crushing shock of a massive asteroid impact, researchers squeezed… Read more: Blasted off Mars and still alive

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system? Researchers at the University of… Read more: Intelligence emerges when the whole brain works as one

Anthropic, a leading AI company, recently refused to sign a Pentagon contract that would allow the United States military “unrestricted access” to its technology for “all lawful purposes.” To sign, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei required… Read more: From Anthropic to Iran: Who sets the limits on AI’s use in war and surveillance?

Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances – but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company’s… Read more: Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so

A Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the scene of a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, EMS and Waymo officials confirmed. “A driverless vehicle was stopped in the area while our… Read more: Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

The Moon has received a lot of attention in recent months, particularly the surface of Earth’s cold and dusty companion. This has largely been driven by a decision from SpaceX founder Elon Musk to pivot,… Read more: As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester”

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Protestors stood in the snow outside the offices of Ohio’s utility regulator in January to say they were fed up with rising electricity rates. Even a few years ago, the scene would have been… Read more: This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 back in October of last year, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. This morning Apple… Read more: Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the… Read more: Sam Altman Admits He’s Made a Huge Mistake

Try to think of just one area where artificial intelligence is not leaving a mark, and you’ll realise there’s almost none. And in the forex world, things have not been any different. It’s a big… Read more: The integration of AI in modern forex automation

Artificial intelligence is no longer just powering defensive cybersecurity tools, it is reshaping the entire threat landscape. AI is accelerating reconnaissance, improving the realism of phishing, automating malware mutation, and enabling adaptive attack techniques. At… Read more: Best AI security solutions 2026: Top enterprise platforms compared

The medical journal The Lancet did not pull any punches in a scathing editorial on Robert F. Kennedy Jr, calling the anti-vaccine activist’s first year as US Health Secretary “a failure by most measures, especially… Read more: Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure

The lesson here isn’t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It’s that we must renovate our democratic structures OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for… Read more: Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services,… Read more: CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there are about two nearly… Read more: For every known vertebrate species, two more may be hiding in plain sight

Fusion energy may be one of the most promising clean power sources of the future—but only if scientists can precisely measure the extreme, fast-moving plasmas that make it possible. A new U.S. Department of Energy–sponsored… Read more: The hidden technology that could unlock commercial fusion power

As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human • Produced in partnership with EdSurge The alert came around… Read more: Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe?

It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android, which the company described as the first “truly open” mobile operating system, setting Google-powered phones apart from the iPhone’s aggressively managed experience. Over time, though, Android… Read more: With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy

Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The… Read more: LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

AWS says drone strikes damaged data center facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting and degrading dozens of cloud services across the Middle East. The post AWS Data Centers Hit: Drone Strikes Cripple Cloud appeared… Read more: AWS Data Centers Hit: Drone Strikes Cripple Cloud

Build a scalable internal prompt infrastructure that your team can standardize, publish, and reuse long-term. The post Standardize AI Outputs Across Teams for a One-Time $100 Fee appeared first on TechRepublic.

Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics – a fight increasingly shaping… Read more: Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary

The adoption of physical AI drives ROI in frontline customer service by merging digital intelligence with human-like physical interaction. As businesses navigate shrinking labour pools, they are finding that simply automating routine workflows is no… Read more: Physical AI adoption boosts customer service ROI

ChatGPT owner’s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence services Business live – latest updates OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to… Read more: OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans—in Colorado’s Denver Basin. Previously thought to… Read more: Teeth smaller than a fingertip reveal the first primate ancestor

Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and… Read more: Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank

An artificial intelligence system has, for the first time in Europe, completed a payment inside a live banking network without a human entering the final command. Banco Santander and Mastercard confirmed that they had executed… Read more: Santander and Mastercard run Europe’s first AI-executed payment pilot

The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it There are a lot of things… Read more: Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker

Recent AI-driven layoffs highlight a structural shift in Australia’s white-collar workforce, even as national unemployment remains low. The post AI Job Cuts Signal a White-Collar Reset in Australia appeared first on TechRepublic.

AI-native networks have been a recurring talking point at Mobile World Congress for years. What made MWC 2026 in Barcelona different was the evidence. A cascade of announcements from the world’s biggest telecom vendors, chipmakers,… Read more: AI-Native networks are no longer a 6G promise–MWC 2026 just proved it

Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the… Read more: Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack Two years ago, at… Read more: Cheating machine or powerful assistant? The AI anxieties of a trainee teacher

In the past three months, Donald Trump’s White House has reportedly used AI twice to effect regime change – once in its capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and more recently to help plan the… Read more: Does Trump want to wage an AI-powered war? – podcast

Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad.

The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this… Read more: Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Deutsche Telekom, the German cell provider—which holds a majority stake in T-Mobile—is partnering with ElevenLabs to enable an AI assistant on all of its network’s calls in Germany. No app required.

Soon after South Korean police posted a press release boasting about seizing $5.6 million worth of cryptocurrency from 124 wealthy tax evaders, cops realized that they had mistakenly posted images that made it possible for… Read more: Oops: South Korean cops lost $5M in seized crypto after leaking wallet password

It’s no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school students’ homework to “vibe coding” assistants that can build entire apps in a fraction of the time… Read more: AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

Apple unveils the iPhone 17e with 256GB base storage, A19 chip, MagSafe, and a smarter 48MP camera, all starting at $599. The post Apple Launches iPhone 17e: Everything You Need to Know appeared first on… Read more: Apple Launches iPhone 17e: Everything You Need to Know

OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO Sam Altman admitted had optics that “don’t look good.” On Friday, Altman announced that OpenAI had reached… Read more: Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”

Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last… Read more: Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud

In just three years, ChatOn has evolved into one of the world’s leading AI assistants. As of March 2026, ChatOn, one of the most popular AI chatbots, has achieved 100 million downloads on iOS, Android, and Web.… Read more: ChatOn Reaches 100M Downloads as Its Global Audience Continues to Grow

Keebo, Inc., a pioneer in autonomous cloud data warehouse optimization, today announced the appointment of Eric Shoemaker as Chief Executive Officer. Shoemaker is a seasoned SaaS executive with a proven record of building and scaling… Read more: Keebo Appoints Eric Shoemaker as Chief Executive Officer

Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communications Commission permission to buy Cox and surpass Comcast as the country’s largest home Internet service provider. Charter has 29.7 million residential and business… Read more: Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli military forces, have so far claimed 555 Iranian lives, including 165 deaths from an attack on an… Read more: US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes

The main bet on the front page of Polymarket right now is “Will the Iranian regime fall by June 30?” The site has this at a 41 percent chance of happening as I write this. … Read more: With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom

Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting the low-quality flood of AI output that’s been jamming up feeds for years now. The latest victim?… Read more: Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

StratfordProductions/Shutterstock These days, gen Z appears to be pivoting towards skilled trades, perhaps driven by a desire for “AI-proof” job security. Many young workers now view blue-collar careers as more stable than office jobs in… Read more: Time to retrain? How to future-proof your career in the AI age

Police officers often work with partial information under severe time constraints in situations that can change in seconds. Whether investigating a crime or patrolling a neighbourhood, they regularly have to make predictions based on instinct.… Read more: Will AI tools make better police officers?

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly… Read more: Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

As millions turn to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for therapy-style advice, new research from Brown University raises a serious red flag: even when instructed to act like trained therapists, these systems routinely break core… Read more: ChatGPT as a therapist? New study reveals serious ethical risks

As expected, Apple has announced a mild update for the iPad family’s middle child today. The new iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but it replaces the Apple M3 chip with an… Read more: $599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town. All three establishments, including the gas station, stand on the same half-mile stretch… Read more: Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found that biodiversity increases with moisture and altitude shapes which species survive. In the most extreme zones, many nematodes reproduce… Read more: Atacama surprise: The world’s driest desert is teeming with hidden life

Over the decades, technological devices have been gradually integrated into language learning, as is recently the case with generative artificial intelligence (AI). Does the sophistication of these tools eventually render pencils and pens obsolete? Or… Read more: Why we shouldn’t abandon handwriting at school

Amazon’s cloud services are down in some of the Middle East after “objects” hit data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) causing “sparks and fire.” Around 60 services tied to AWS are down in… Read more: Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Google introduces an AI Professional Certificate with six courses and a capstone, plus 20+ hands-on activities, and free access for small businesses. The post Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building appeared… Read more: Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building

A former NASA administrator says he is “encouraged” that the US Congress is considering legislation to prevent NASA from spending more than 50 percent of its launch funding on any single provider. “America succeeds in… Read more: Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

Elon Musk’s xAI has locked in a Pentagon deal to deploy its Grok AI model in classified military systems, pushing Anthropic out and sparking a new era of AI defense partnerships. The post Elon Musk’s… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Bring Grok Into Classified Military Systems

A new pair of EV siblings joins the Subaru lineup this year, each using a shared skateboard chassis developed in partnership with Toyota. Compared to the original Solterra and smaller Uncharted, the new Trailseeker bears… Read more: It’s almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven

OpenAI secures a Pentagon deal to deploy AI on classified systems as the US government bars Anthropic over national security concerns. The post OpenAI Secures Major Deal with Pentagon as Trump, Hegseth Condemn Anthropic appeared… Read more: OpenAI Secures Major Deal with Pentagon as Trump, Hegseth Condemn Anthropic

Apple’s biggest iPhone announcements usually happen in September, but for the second year in a row the company is also bringing out a new iPhone in March. The new iPhone 17e is a new version… Read more: Apple’s new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599

The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residents Wilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings… Read more: ‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO), a technology company developing a global artificial intelligence machine economy platform, today announced that following the execution of data collection services related agreement with DaBoss.AI Inc. (“DaBoss”) earlier this month, the parties… Read more: Robo.ai Completes Initial Data Delivery Collection in Middle East

Framework provides practical guidance for responsible, safe, outcome-driven AI use, and debuts alongside new podcast series Project Evident announced today the launch of its Equitable AI Adoption Framework, a practical guide designed to help practitioners responsibly… Read more: Project Evident Launches Equitable AI Adoption Framework

Explore the top tech conferences to attend in 2026. Discover key dates, locations, and must-see events in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, IT, and emerging tech. The post Top Tech Conferences to Attend in 2026 appeared first… Read more: Top Tech Conferences to Attend in 2026

In the Trump FCC’s latest series of attacks on TV broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has been threatening to enforce the equal-time rule on daytime and late-night talk shows. The interview portions of… Read more: Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Quintin is one of the people behind Rayhunter, an easy to install tool that can detect… Read more: How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Inverted perovskite solar cells offer strong potential for scalable, low-cost solar power, but a hidden interface inside the device has limited their performance and durability. Researchers have now introduced crystal-solvate nanoseeds that guide crystal growth… Read more: New crystal seeding method boosts perovskite solar cell efficiency to 23%

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively turning illumination into a tool for shaping matter. By adding light-sensitive molecules to a liquid filled with… Read more: Scientists just turned light into a remote control for crystals

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers does more than reshape their electronics—it can create giant, topological magnetic textures. In chromium triiodide, researchers observed skyrmion-like patterns stretching far beyond the expected moiré scale, reaching hundreds of nanometers.… Read more: A tiny twist creates giant magnetic skyrmions in 2D crystals

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when heat from tidal forces melts their ice shells from below, the sudden drop in pressure could… Read more: Hidden oceans on icy moons may be boiling beneath the surface

Our new free course AI for the People will show you practical ways to work with AI –without giving up judgment, privacy or your humanity Sign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter… Read more: There’s a lot to hate about AI. But what if there was a mindful way to use it?

AI is transforming our world. Accepting independent oversight is the least companies can do to protect our rights The speed with which AI is transforming our lives is head-spinning. Unlike previous technological revolutions – radio,… Read more: I’m on the Meta Oversight Board. We need AI protections now | Suzanne Nossel

Tell us how you’ve been using AI since signing up to our newsletter course on how to make it work for you Our six-week newsletter course AI for the People is helping Guardian readers use… Read more: Subscribed to AI for the People? Share your new favorite prompts with us

Polyamines—natural molecules found in every living cell—have become stars in the longevity world for their ability to boost cellular cleanup and support healthy aging. But there’s a dark twist: high levels of these same molecules… Read more: Scientists reveal why a popular anti-aging compound may also fuel cancer

As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators are flooding north in search of cheap and plentiful energy.

At MWC 2026 in Barcelona, SK Telecom outlined how it is rebuilding itself around AI, from its network core to its customer service desks. The shift goes beyond adding new AI tools. It involves rewriting… Read more: MWC 2026: SK Telecom lays out plan to rebuild its core around AI

AI adoption in financial services has effectively become universal–and the institutions still treating it as an experiment are now the outliers. According to Finastra’s Financial Services State of the Nation 2026 report, which surveyed 1,509… Read more: AI adoption in financial services has hit a point of no return

AMD has been selling “Ryzen AI”-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU architectures, these attempting to capitalize on the generative AI… Read more: AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for the first time

Arcfra, an innovator in cloud & AI-ready infrastructure, today announced the launch of Arcfra Neutree, an enterprise-grade Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform designed to industrialize AI operations. As the centerpiece of the new Arcfra AI Infrastructure Solution, Neutree shifts… Read more: Arcfra Launches Neutree to Power Scalable Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Rey brings decades of experience in the public sector software arena as Virtualitics continues rapid growth Virtualitics, the category leader in AI-native readiness applications for defense, government and critical infrastructure, today announced that Dave Rey… Read more: Virtualitics Names Salesforce’s Dave Rey as New Board Member

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (right) at an AI summit in India in February 2026. Ludovic Marin / Getty Images In the leadup to the weekend’s US and Israeli attacks… Read more: The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (right) at an AI summit in India in February 2026. Ludovic Marin / Getty Images In the leadup to the weekend’s US and Israeli attacks… Read more: The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’

Getty Images If you’re often on social media, you’ve probably seen it: the deluge of low-quality, artificial intelligence-made material clogging up our feeds. So-called “AI slop” – the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year for… Read more: AI is already creeping into election campaigns. NZ’s rules aren’t ready