7 Jul 2026
Schools like Alpha School and Forge Prep are charging wealthy US families premium tuition for AI-driven tutoring instead of traditional teaching — just as separate research finds AI use is quietly dragging down exam performance in ordinary classrooms.
7 Jul 2026
The FCA wants new powers to regulate ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini after finding that a fifth of UK adults are open to using them for financial decisions — a use case that currently sits entirely outside financial regulation.
7 Jul 2026
A security researcher found that Claude Code had been secretly checking whether users were in China since April, hiding the signal inside ordinary text. Anthropic calls it an abandoned anti-fraud experiment; Alibaba has banned the tool internally.
7 Jul 2026
A fan community found a hidden code Claude can leave behind when its output is pasted straight from the chat window, and built a tool that flags any story containing it. The method is real — but it shows far less than accusers claim, and it's already been used to go after writers who deny wholesale AI use.
7 Jul 2026
A packed stretch: the US government asked OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 before launch while quietly restoring a chosen few to Anthropic's Mythos, Apple raised Mac and iPad prices on an AI-driven memory shortage, and Google's own report showed its electricity use jumping 37% in a year. All 32 stories we covered, grouped and in plain English.
3 Jul 2026
Anthropic's new Claude Science app is pitched as a research workbench for scientists. But at its launch, Anthropic told reporters it plans to go further and develop medicines of its own, putting it in a three-way race with Google and OpenAI to get AI directly into the drug-discovery business.
2 Jul 2026
Google's annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025, its largest increase ever, driven by the AI data-centre buildout. Its own report is unusually frank: efficiency and clean-energy deals are real, but they are not keeping pace.
2 Jul 2026
OpenAI has reportedly proposed handing the US government a 5% ownership stake, and wants rival AI firms to do the same. The talks are early and unsigned, but they mark a striking shift in how Washington and the AI industry see each other.
2 Jul 2026
A UK study asked an AI to impersonate 112 real public figures from Question Time. Participants rated the AI's answers as more authentic, coherent and relevant than the politicians' own words — a finding the researchers call a "dire" warning.
1 Jul 2026
Three weeks after the US government forced Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the export controls are gone and Fable 5 returns worldwide on 1 July. The more important story is what the resolution reveals: why the models were pulled, that weaker models could do the same thing, and a new, formal role for government in vetting frontier AI before it ships.
1 Jul 2026
Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a random number between 1 and 10 and you'll almost always get 7. It's a symptom of something an award-winning study calls the "Artificial Hivemind" — the tendency of large language models to converge on a narrow band of predictable answers, and on the same answers as each other. Here's why it happens, and what to do when you actually want variety.
1 Jul 2026
Google's research assistant NotebookLM is adding Short Video Overviews — 60-second vertical clips generated from your own sources. Here's what they are, who can use them yet, and whether a bite-sized AI video of your notes is actually useful.