Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest… Read more: Reading Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 results past the headline number

South Africa introduced a digital social assistance programme in 2020 to identify who was eligible for its Social Relief of Distress grant. The country’s High Court later found that the automated vetting system it relied… Read more: Governments shouldn’t rely on AI to decide who gets a social grant: inside a South African court case

FORTRESS Transforms Proprietary Data Into the Intelligence Layer for the Agentic AI Era Fobi AI Inc. (TSXV: FOBI) (Pink: FOBIF) (“Fobi” or the “Company”), an enterprise technology company delivering artificial intelligence, intelligent automation and data intelligence… Read more: Fobi AI Announced the Launch of FORTRESS

Experience engineering firm Ciklum Group Ltd. today announced a partnership with database management company ClickHouse Inc. intended to speed up enterprise migrations onto the company’s open-source analytics database. Ciklum joins the ClickHouse partner program House… Read more: Ciklum partners with ClickHouse to speed enterprise migrations to real-time analytics

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them … until now The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in… Read more: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape

Early beta users achieved a 37.8% Day 7 retention rate as Ambi’s ambient intelligence platform helps people turn everyday conversation context into memory, follow-through and focus—without constantly switching between apps. Ambi, an ambient intelligence company… Read more: Ambi Introduces Ambient Intelligence Beyond Prompt-and-Response

Former AWS principal engineers launch Xpander to overcome the challenges enterprises are facing when aiming to become AI-native and to enable AI utilization at unparalleled scale Xpander today announced a $7.5 million Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners with… Read more: Xpander Secures $7.5M Seed to Unleash AI for Enterprises

Scientists studying three artisan British cheeses found that the microbes responsible for their distinctive flavors may also offer surprising benefits for gut health. As the cheeses matured, helpful bacteria transformed their aromas and textures while… Read more: The bacteria that make cheese taste so good may also benefit your gut

Childhood criticism can leave people carrying a fear of failure long into adulthood, but new research suggests those emotional patterns may be surprisingly flexible. Young adults who revisited painful memories through imagery-based therapy showed lasting… Read more: A therapy that “rewrites” childhood memories can ease fear of failure

Einstein’s abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. It now sits at the heart of our best cosmological model—a model that works extraordinarily well, yet may… Read more: Einstein’s biggest “mistake” came back — and changed cosmology forever

A magnetar’s colossal magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago, in which seemingly empty space alters the behavior of light. If confirmed, the discovery could offer… Read more: Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty

Egypt’s Theban necropolis holds over 400 tombs, a rich resource for archaeologists eager to learn more about that region’s ancient history. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology outlines how Egyptian… Read more: Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time

Just_Super/Getty Images The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the fight against antibiotic resistance. But it also raised urgent concerns about regulation. Alongside… Read more: The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology

Cursor today introduced Origin, a cloud service that software teams can use to store their code. The launch marks the company’s first major product update since its $60 billion sale to SpaceX Corp. in June.… Read more: Cursor launches Origin code hosting service to compete with GitHub

Cyber resilience is becoming a business imperative as AI accelerates attacks, expands the enterprise attack surface and gives autonomous systems greater access to sensitive data and critical operations. Preventing every disruption is no longer a… Read more: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Black Hat USA

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised $350 million in funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp. plans to join the round… Read more: AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC has won an auction to acquire massive volumes of internal business data from the bankrupt airline operator Spirit Airlines Inc. for a hefty $10 million price. A report by Bloomberg says… Read more: Google pays $10M to get its hands on Spirit Airlines’ business data for AI training

Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that can automate most of… Read more: Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released data on the vaccination rates of US kindergarteners in the 2025–2026 school year, revealing that rates have once again decreased from the previous school year.… Read more: US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows

Australia must move up the Artificial Intelligence (AI) value chain rather than simply hosting data centres, the Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Andrew Charlton, says. In a lecture to be delivered… Read more: Australia must move up the AI ‘value chain’ to capture maximum value from the technology: Andrew Charlton

izusek/Getty Images Universities are increasingly turning to oral exams to stop students using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat. Some unis say it allows teachers to more accurately test students’ knowledge. Meanwhile, some NSW schools are… Read more: Oral exams are making a comeback to stop AI cheating. But they have their own problems

Perhaps it’s the local summer diet of deep-fried cheese curds, corn on the cob, and Spotted Cow, but Wisconsin residents have been feeling pretty dyspeptic about Flock’s automated license plate cameras. Over the past few… Read more: As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

DURATÓN, Spain—I’ll say it: I’m hooked. Standing in the shadow of the Moon is one of the rarest opportunities to directly sense the mechanics of our Solar System, when the dance between three celestial bodies… Read more: The Moon’s shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it

Pornhub’s parent company will pay $120 million to settle claims that its platforms violated federal sex trafficking and child sexual abuse imagery laws. The deal settles two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama… Read more: Pornhub’s Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

Petlibro founder and CEO York Wu provided more information about an outage that left users unable to control their smart pet feeders through the companion app and, in some reported cases, left them with hungry… Read more: Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations,… Read more: Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon’s attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders issued by the court, Verizon’s petition was denied without explanation. The denial… Read more: Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research, contends that any bursting… Read more: On theCUBE Pod: AI bubble debate heats up and neocloud earnings challenge doubters

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove… Read more: Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its AI models. In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for… Read more: Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

Open-weight AI does not need to beat frontier models to test the growth and margin assumptions behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s soaring valuations. The post Can Open-Weight AI Pressure OpenAI and Anthropic Valuations? appeared first on… Read more: Can Open-Weight AI Pressure OpenAI and Anthropic Valuations?

Google Meet can use Gemini to capture in-person conversations and turn them into a Google Doc with summaries and action items. The post How to Take Notes for In-Person Meetings With Google Meet appeared first… Read more: How to Take Notes for In-Person Meetings With Google Meet

Google now lets Gemini users disable visible AI watermarks while keeping invisible SynthID markers and C2PA credentials embedded for transparency. The post Google Makes Visible Gemini Watermarks Optional for AI Images, Videos and Music appeared… Read more: Google Makes Visible Gemini Watermarks Optional for AI Images, Videos and Music

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that open-weight AI alone cannot decentralize power while advanced chips and compute remain concentrated. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says Open-Weight AI Won’t Decentralize Power appeared first on TechRepublic.

OpenAI’s Computer History turns Mac activity into searchable memories. See how it works, who can use it, and the privacy and security risks. The post OpenAI Launches Computer History for ChatGPT and Codex on Mac… Read more: OpenAI Launches Computer History for ChatGPT and Codex on Mac

Kentucky parents are outraged after discovering that horribly inaccurate educational materials handed out to their middle school students were generated with AI. According to local station WDRB, students at Farnsley Middle School in Southwest Louisville… Read more: Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”

Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, operations, quality and enterprise software practices into a single offering aimed at the… Read more: Hexaware bundles its AI services under a Zero Friction Enterprise framework

Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after closing on a $20 million round of early-stage funding today. The… Read more: Palona raises $20M in funding to bring AI automation to brick-and-mortar businesses

AITECH Cloud Network, formerly Solidus AI Tech, has announced a strategic partnership with Secret Network to integrate confidential computing capabilities into Agent Forge, its no-code AI agent platform developed fully by ACN’s internal development team… Read more: AITECH Cloud Network and Secret Network Bring Confidential AI to Agent Forge

Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an… Read more: Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

Nvidia has disclosed that it owns nearly 123 million shares in SpaceX, further highlighting the chipmaker’s entangled financial relationships with some of its biggest customers. The $5.5 trillion company owned SpaceX stock worth nearly $21 billion at… Read more: Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

This past weekend saw Monterey Car Week at perhaps its most excessive ever. The auctions set records, including $42.9 million for one of six Shelby Daytona Coupes, and $40 million for Ferrari’s first Luce electric… Read more: This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

Wispr AI Inc., the developer of a cross-platform, AI-powered dictation platform, today announced it raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round alongside existing investors Notable… Read more: Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI

Generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals Higgsfield Inc. today announced that it raised $400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the company’s valuation to $5.4 billion since its previous funding round in… Read more: Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform

OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes, and more — all so it can fine-tune its AI model, raising obvious privacy concerns. The feature,… Read more: New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today launched the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, a $250 million investment vehicle built to partner with the companies shaping the future of AI. Micron Ventures’ third and largest fund to… Read more: Micron Ventures Launches $250 Mn Fund to Invest in the Next Generation of AI

I think we’re pretty good at telling the difference between an AI generated image and a real photograph, but when I need help I call Hany Farid.  Farid is the cofounder of GetReal, a company… Read more: The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality (With Hany Farid)

New platform builds on proven automotive leadership to enable safe, intuitive human-machine interaction Seeing Machines Limited (AIM: SEE), the advanced computer vision company that has helped redefine transport safety through AI-powered human sensing, today announced… Read more: Seeing Machines announced the launch of Physical AI Platform

$10.6 million fundraising round led by Dimension backs a team of world-leading Princeton mathematicians and physicists building a radically new kind of scientific AI backed by mathematical proofs of correctness. Lanyon AI, a fundamental research… Read more: Lanyon AI Emerges From Stealth to Advance Scientific Computing

An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” The man, who… Read more: ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit one unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back at close to 300 kilometers an hour, smashing bones and crushing him beneath its… Read more: Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

Online marketplaces are being flooded with AI slop — but is anybody willing to actually pay for it? In the case of CGTrader, a long-established online marketplace for 3D assets used by video game developers,… Read more: The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.  A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously… Read more: We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customer Sainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified… Read more: Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way triple-negative breast cancer may turn the body against itself. Tumors appear to recruit macrophages—immune cells normally involved in healing and fighting infection—and use them to release a protein called… Read more: Scientists uncover the hidden nerve network fueling breast cancer

Caltech scientists have created ultra-low-loss optical pathways on silicon chips that approach the efficiency of fiber optics and dramatically outperform existing technology at visible wavelengths. The breakthrough could unlock more powerful lasers, miniature atomic sensors… Read more: Caltech breakthrough brings fiber-optic performance to silicon chips

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the extraordinary leap toward plants, animals, and other complex organisms. Solving that ancient mystery may also… Read more: Tiny 1.7-billion-year-old fossils could reveal how complex life began

Astronomers may finally have a clue to what happens to the mysterious “little red dots” that crowded the early universe. By studying a spiral galaxy nicknamed the “Saguaro,” researchers found a compact, bright red center… Read more: Webb’s mysterious little red dots may be hiding entire galaxies

This should be a golden era of launch. During the last three years, an average of 270 orbital rockets have launched from Earth, a more than three-fold increase from only a decade ago. By every… Read more: Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

Hi-tech cameras orbiting Earth and on the ground, along with AI, help firefighters extinguish blazes before they spread The fires in Spokane, Washington, this summer are the latest reminder that when a wildfire is detected… Read more: AI eyes in the sky: new satellites and artificial intelligence are transforming wildfire detection

New cloud-native offering gives SAP teams centralized control, server-side scheduling, and auditability without the cost of on-premises infrastructure Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced the release of Automate Evolve Cloud Essentials. As a cloud-native… Read more: Precisely Launches Automate Evolve Cloud Essentials for SAP

Trusted coverage now extends to cover three fronts of AI risk: attackers using AI, employees misusing it, and the AI systems themselves [TL;DR / Key Takeaways] What: Expel today became the only managed detection and response… Read more: Expel launches first MDR for the full AI attack surface

SuperApp Inc., formerly Instabase Inc., today announced the launch of its flagship product of the same name and its transition from Instabase to the new name. The new platform provides teams with a Slack-like communication… Read more: SuperApp launches a shared space with AI models for teams to collaborate on work

New release cuts data processing overhead, reduces document extraction setup from minutes to seconds, and adapts to changing data layouts Astera today announced Astera 11.2, the latest version of its no-code data and AI platform, delivering up to 2X faster… Read more: Astera 11.2 Delivers 2X Faster Processing and Built-In RAG

Transformworks, an AI deployment partner that helps organizations design, build, and scale practical AI solutions for complex business workflows, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network.… Read more: Transformworks Announced its Naming ads an OpenAI Select Partner

An experimental Alzheimer’s compound prevented damaging protein clumps from forming in the brains of mice, helping nerve cells survive longer and reducing amyloid buildup. The treatment also appeared to improve heart health and slow some… Read more: A little-known protein may be fueling Alzheimer’s — and scientists found a way to block it

Scientists have discovered that tiny, sharply curved wrinkles in graphene can dramatically alter its electrical behavior, creating surprisingly strong charge separation. The finding suggests future electronics could be tuned by reshaping materials at the atomic… Read more: Tiny graphene wrinkles create surprisingly powerful electrical effects

Nature invented biodegradable plastic long before humans did—and animals may have been feeding on it for hundreds of millions of years. Researchers discovered that dozens of animal species possess enzymes capable of breaking down microbial… Read more: Animals have been eating nature’s original bioplastic for millions of years

An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say the key may be balancing physical… Read more: Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected

U.S. organizations accelerate AI adoption while strengthening the foundations for scale CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), one of the world’s largest independent IT and business consulting services firms, released findings from its annual Voice of Our… Read more: CGI Research: AI Success Depends on Modern Systems and Talent

New capability extends Axio360’s trusted cyber risk quantification methodology to AI, giving boards, regulators, and insurers a dollarized view of AI exposure Axio, a leader in cyber risk quantification (CRQ), today announced the launch of… Read more: Axio Announced the Launch of Axio AIR

Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid technology could eventually help make AI systems and next-generation computers… Read more: Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power

Co-founder Peter Howard to Serve as Chairman as Realtime Robotics Builds on Momentum With Key Customers in Automotive Manufacturing Realtime Robotics, the leader in industrial AI for automated robot system design and deployment, today announced… Read more: Realtime Robotics Names Kevin Carlin CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth

Aleksandra Konoplia / Getty Images Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the… Read more: The decades-old ‘AI alignment problem’ has finally become a reality. Solving it won’t be easy

The reimagined Commit Graph gives developers one place to understand, coordinate, review, and ship work across coding agents and modern development workflows. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed software development. GitKraken’s 2026 State of AI in Engineering… Read more: GitKraken Announced the Introduction of GitLens 19

Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation The chips are quite small and some can be… Read more: Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI Follow our Australia news live blog for latest… Read more: Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears

marcoventuriniautieri/Getty As the world is increasingly flooded with deepfakes, the European Union is taking action to help people distinguish what is real and what is not. It recently started enforcing transparency obligations for tech companies… Read more: New EU laws make AI content labels compulsory – but might just make it harder to spot deepfakes

Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AI Almost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading… Read more: The Guardian view on the changed world of job interviews: missing the human factor | Editorial

What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids? A great recipe for violent extremism, it turns out. A new analysis by researchers at the Global… Read more: Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains

A decade ago, young adults were flocking to vaunted tech giants like Google and Apple in pursuit of exciting jobs on the cutting edge of tech. In 2026, however, the status quo of young people… Read more: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

When far-right white nationalist Jake Lang rolled up to a peaceful religious procession in Dearborn, Michigan earlier this month with a sign calling to “deport 100 million” Muslims, he clearly didn’t plan on making any… Read more: Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans

Australia’s corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote phony investment opportunities Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There has been a steep rise… Read more: Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns

In February, the United States Department of Defense threatened to designate the AI firm Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” after a dispute over the military’s use of the company’s Claude models. This designation would not only… Read more: Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon shows how AI could threaten a crucial safeguard of democracy

COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses hiding in the body, including Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, and several herpes viruses. One poorly understood viral family was strongly associated with long COVID and lasting disability, offering a potentially important clue… Read more: COVID-19 awakens dormant viruses — and one is linked to long COVID

Astronomers have witnessed a black hole violently shredding a massive star, creating one of the most energetic stellar explosions ever observed. The event, nicknamed “the Whippet,” briefly released about 400 billion times the Sun’s energy… Read more: A black hole shredded a “super sun” — but something strange may have survived

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. Named Spea labreae, the Ice Age spadefoot toad is an exceptionally rare find—only one other… Read more: A new Ice Age species was hiding in la brea tar pits fossils for decades

As we age, the body appears to sacrifice walking efficiency in exchange for stability. Older adults stiffen the ankle more with each step, which may help prevent falls but also forces the muscles to work… Read more: Scientists reveal why walking gets so much harder with age

Physicists may have uncovered a hidden feature inside protons that helps preserve one of matter’s most fundamental properties. RHIC collision data suggest baryon number is carried not simply by three quarks, but by a Y-shaped… Read more: Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks

Exercise and healthy blood sugar levels in midlife may help slow cognitive decline decades later. Physical activity appeared especially beneficial for Mexican American adults, suggesting that some brain-protective factors may differ across populations.

Some film-makers say the technology could enable them to bypass the studio giants and take more creative risks Near the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver City film studio, a tech-powered rival has sprung… Read more: ‘It will help get mid-budget films made’: why directors are embracing AI

In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act.… Read more: Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

Local journalism in the US has spent the better part of two decades on life support. First came widespread digitization, which guttered subscriptions and left newspapers and magazines in shambles. Then private equity swooped in,… Read more: Axios Partners With OpenAI to “Automate” Local Journalism

Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it. Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at… Read more: People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content

Wynd Kaufman, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAI An activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies is believed to… Read more: The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

Ever used or thought of using artificial intelligence (AI) for financial advice? Is it a good idea? Anyone with the internet, even on their phone, can access AI. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are… Read more: We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for financial advice: what we got was practical, but with big blind spots

Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collide Families with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year,… Read more: AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global

Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account details You are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With… Read more: ‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos

It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest. We also got the first teaser for Ahsoka S2; the… Read more: VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event