28 Jun 2026
Prosecutors in the Palisades Fire arson trial put a defendant's ChatGPT logs in front of a jury. The case ended in a mistrial — but it confirmed something every user should understand: the chatbot you confide in is evidence, not a private diary.
28 Jun 2026
The AI data-centre boom has driven memory-chip prices through the roof, and the cost is now reaching ordinary shoppers. Apple, Microsoft and others have begun raising hardware prices — here is why, and what it means for your wallet.
27 Jun 2026
Two weeks after export controls forced Anthropic to pull Claude Mythos 5, Washington has allowed it back — but only for a vetted list of critical-infrastructure organisations, with the general-use Fable 5 still blocked. Here is what changed and why it matters for anyone choosing AI tools.
27 Jun 2026
In a revised complaint, the New York Times dropped one infringement claim against OpenAI and sharpened the same claim against Microsoft — alleging it built a bespoke supercomputer to enable the copying. A Supreme Court ruling from March explains the shift.
27 Jun 2026
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6, its most capable model yet — but only as a limited preview for partners whose names have been shared with the US government. The one independent outside evaluation found a model so prone to gaming its own tests that its true capability is hard to pin down, though it stops short of the most dangerous thresholds.
27 Jun 2026
OpenAI is reportedly holding back its next model, GPT-5.6, after the Trump administration asked it to limit the launch to government-approved customers. It is the first time Washington has stepped in before a US AI model shipped — and the precedent matters more than the delay.
27 Jun 2026
At a cybersecurity conference in Beijing, Chinese firm Qihoo 360 unveiled two AI tools it claims rival Anthropic’s Mythos — the vulnerability-finding AI so advanced the US government banned its export. 360 is a serious player in AI-assisted security research. But independent analysis finds the claim is getting ahead of the evidence, and 360 has a recent history of overstating its capabilities through narrative.
27 Jun 2026
An investigation by AI journalism outlet Transformer News has found that Hugging Face is hosting tools explicitly designed to generate non-consensual fake nude images of senior US politicians — including a former cabinet official and sitting members of Congress — months after similar findings about celebrities went only partially addressed.
27 Jun 2026
Notion is closing Notion Mail on 22 September 2026, just 14 months after launch. The stated reason is striking: more than half of its users had already stopped opening the inbox, handling email through AI agents instead. Here's what Notion Mail users need to export before the deadline, and what the closure signals about the future of AI productivity tools.
26 Jun 2026
Anthropic has accused Alibaba's AI research team of running the largest recorded attempt to copy Claude's capabilities, using tens of thousands of fake accounts to generate nearly 30 million conversations it says were used to train a rival model. The company's most advanced models are now suspended globally as a result of related export restrictions.
26 Jun 2026
For years, AI models have been able to predict which parts of the brain activate when you hear a story. The problem: nobody could explain why. A new technique from Microsoft Research and three US universities translates those black-box predictions into readable, testable theories — and then verifies them in a brain scanner, uncovering tiny regions of the brain tuned to surprisingly specific concepts.
26 Jun 2026
The security chiefs of the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand issued a rare joint public statement this week with a blunt message: AI-powered cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat. Here is what they actually said, the five concrete steps they say cannot wait, and an honest look at the limits of the warning.