1 Jul 2026
A White House order wants tens of thousands of federal websites redesigned, with AI doing much of the work, by 4 July 2026. The early sites show what "vibe coding" looks like when the stakes are public — and why speed without review is the problem.
1 Jul 2026
Netflix's new Willy Wonka competition show revives Gene Wilder's voice with AI, made with ElevenLabs and cleared by his estate. Here's what's confirmed, what tool did it, and why "the family said yes" answers the legal question but not the harder one.
30 Jun 2026
The library ebook app Libby is adding a setting to filter out AI-generated content. It is more than any big rival offers — but it depends on publishers owning up to which books are AI, the very step that has failed so far.
30 Jun 2026
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a new mid-priced model it says performs close to its flagship Opus model on many tasks — and it is now the default for free and Pro users. The capability-for-price step is real, but the headline numbers are Anthropic's own, and a quiet tokenizer change softens the "cheaper" story.
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.