30 Jun 2026
OpenAI's latest usage data says most ChatGPT activity now comes from people who don't mainly use English, and from users with typically female names, with the fastest growth in lower-income countries. It is the company's own telemetry — but the broader shift it describes is real.
30 Jun 2026
A Virginia county with 37 data centres has asked its schools and staff to turn off the lights as its power rate jumps 25%. It is a vivid snapshot of a bigger question now reaching the UK: who pays for the electricity the AI boom needs?
30 Jun 2026
A free plugin called "caveman" strips the pleasantries out of AI coding assistants so they answer in blunt fragments — and companies worried about runaway AI bills are actually using it. The joke is real, and so is the cost problem behind it.
30 Jun 2026
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for plants that don't exist — rainbow roses, giant purple sunflowers, butterfly blooms — across eBay, Amazon and Etsy. Here's how to spot the fakes and what you actually risk if you buy them.
30 Jun 2026
South Korea has unveiled a sweeping public-private push — chips, humanoid robots and AI data centres — that it values at more than $1 trillion. Here is what was actually promised, who is paying, and why it will not ease the gadget-price crunch any time soon.
30 Jun 2026
The Singularity has a founder myth, a famous date, and a black-hole metaphor doing a lot of unearned work. We trace the idea from von Neumann to Kurzweil, score the predictions against independent evidence, and ask what today's AI indicators really say about the road to AGI and superintelligence.
29 Jun 2026
Tidal has become the first major streaming service to declare that wholly AI-generated tracks will earn no royalties at all. It is a clearer line than Spotify's — but the policy's loopholes, and the detection it leans on, leave plenty unresolved.
29 Jun 2026
Vendors are selling AI agents as "digital colleagues" with names and org-chart seats. New research suggests the label has a real cost: people caught fewer errors and were quicker to pass the buck when the same work came from an "AI employee" rather than a tool.
29 Jun 2026
Meta says its second-generation system decodes typed sentences from non-invasive brain scans at 61% word accuracy, and it has released the code. The catch: the scanner is a multi-million-pound shielded room, the volunteers were healthy, and the headline figures are not yet peer-reviewed.
29 Jun 2026
OpenAI's new report files every EU job into one of four "AI transition" buckets and calls the shift an opportunity. It is a useful map of where to watch — but it is the company's own framework, it measures potential rather than what is actually happening, and independent trackers still see no broad jobs disruption.
29 Jun 2026
Z.ai's GLM-5.2, a free-to-download Chinese model, has matched frontier US systems on two independent cybersecurity benchmarks — at a fraction of the cost. That is a milestone for open AI, and a headache for defenders.
28 Jun 2026
Suno's new Spark programme offers unsigned artists grants, mentorship and marketing. The binding terms also ask them never to criticise Suno, to avoid rival AI tools for 60 days, and to license their name and likeness — even as Suno fights copyright suits from independent musicians.