Fears over North East council reliance on AI after ‘terrifying’ errors
A councillor in Newcastle aired fears this week over efforts to get local authority staff to use artificial…
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing • The Register
Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new…
Anthropic officially designated a supply chain risk by Pentagon
In a statement earlier on Thursday, a senior Pentagon official said the supply chain risk designation was “effective…
Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor
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UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say | AI (artificial intelligence)
The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a…
AI can write emails and summarize meetings, but here’s what it still can’t do in 2026
Go on X or LinkedIn for five minutes and you’ll find plenty of people talking about what AI…
The AI PR problem
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Autodesk’s new AI 3D generator aims to open game art and 3D printing to everyone
Another creative software giant has just stormed into the generative AI arena. Autodesk, the company behind the industry-standard…
Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a fee
In a bid to stave off a major investigation by the European Commission, Meta said on Thursday that…
UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command • The Register
A UK datacenter has successfully demonstrated it can reduce the amount of power drawn by AI infrastructure in…
New to Gemini? Here are 7 prompts that instantly show what it can do
Google’s Gemini has evolved quickly over the past year, turning into one of the most powerful AI assistants…
Microsoft CEO says ‘I look at all agents as users’, and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot ‘will have its own identity’
It seems like the present chunk of our mildly dystopian timeline is in part dedicated to figuring out…