15 Jul 2026
Premium subscribers can now hold a back-and-forth conversation with Spotify to pick what plays, ask about a track, or dig through their own listening history. The beta covers the US, Ireland and Sweden. The UK is not on the list.
15 Jul 2026
Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centres in the US. It is narrower than the headlines suggest — and it points at a question Britain has answered the other way round.
15 Jul 2026
Google marked 25 years of image search with a Pinterest-style homepage and, more quietly, image generation inside AI Overviews. The second one changes what a search result is.
15 Jul 2026
Google's Waze has added Gemini-powered destination search and voice reporting, alongside AI motorcycle routing, personalised routes and a "less chatty" mode. Most features are rolling out globally; a few are beta or region-limited. Here is what is actually new and what the AI label really means.
14 Jul 2026
A security firm pointed ten leading AI models at a fake company network to see how well they hack. Decoy "canary" traps flagged the intrusion before it mattered in nearly every case — and just warning the AI that traps might exist made it far more cautious. It is a striking result, from a company that sells the traps.
13 Jul 2026
Solos has announced the AirGo A6, AI smart glasses that deliberately skip the camera for a lighter, more private, everyday design. Here is what they do, how they differ from camera-equipped rivals like Meta's Ray-Bans, and the honest catch — you can't buy them yet.
13 Jul 2026
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, an "agent" model built to carry out multi-step tasks across apps, and opened a paid developer API for it. Here is what it does, where it stands against Claude and GPT — and why the way Meta is shipping it is a story in itself.
12 Jul 2026
The Canadian province says it used Claude Code to review 466 million lines of government code in about 20 hours and fix the security gaps it found. Here is what actually happened, what the numbers do and don't prove, and why it matters if your own government or employer is weighing AI code review.
12 Jul 2026
Apple has sued OpenAI, its former hardware chief Tang Tan and Jony Ive's old startup, alleging a pattern of trade-secret theft aimed at OpenAI's coming AI device. The claims are unproven — but the filing shows how bitter the two companies' split has become.
12 Jul 2026
Meta launched a feature that let anyone generate AI images from a public Instagram account just by tagging it — then switched it off within days after backlash from actors' unions and agencies. The row is a lesson in "opt-out by default," and a nudge to check your own settings.
12 Jul 2026
A new preprint from the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind says the giveaway in AI-written fiction isn't its punctuation or vocabulary — it's the shape of the story. Structure alone flagged the machine about 93% of the time.
11 Jul 2026
After weeks restricted to a government-vetted few, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 — its Luna, Terra and Sol models — is now available to everyone. Here is what the three tiers are, what actually changes for you, and how to read the benchmark claims.