October 2026

So far, the top AI companies have been sustained by constant injections of massive investment. But what happens when the funds stop coming in and they’re expected to survive on their own revenue? The fate of Character.AI, the controversial AI companion platform, may come to stand as a warning. On Tuesday, Character.AI filed for chapter […]

Director Greta Gerwig could have made pretty much any movie she wanted after 2023’s Barbie racked up nearly $1.5 billion at the box office. She chose to make Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew for Netflix, an adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ sixth novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series. Gerwig has said little publicly about the film,

Artificial intelligence (AI) can now flag people who may be at elevated risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) years before they disclose the violence or seek help for it within the health-care system. But what happens when a health-care system appears to know something about a survivor they haven’t chosen to reveal? In a recent

Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter was

Accounts for the Westminster-based company behind ChatGPT show that 110 staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares last year OpenAI’s London staff each received £2,318,181 on average last year, as the ChatGPT-maker poured Premier League football salaries into its bid to dominate the global AI race. Accounts for OpenAI UK Ltd, which is

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.

Liquid AI releases an open-weight model for local AI agents. Explore its reported performance, hardware requirements, privacy risks and licensing limits. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B for Local AI Workflows appeared first on TechRepublic.

AMD introduces Helion, an open rack design for agentic AI. Explore CPU and GPU options, planned availability, and what IT teams should assess before deployment. The post AMD Introduces Helion Rack Design for Agentic AI Workloads appeared first on TechRepublic.

Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI has the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we

For almost half a decade, we’ve watched as users became helplessly romantic with AI chatbots, falling head over heels for large language model-based partners in relationships that can have both positive and plenty of negative consequences. And now, thanks to the advent of AI agents, which can independently crawl through your social media and email