Talk Fuse

    Topic: AI

    Artificial intelligence covers the systems, tools and policies shaping how software can generate content, analyse information and make decisions. The topic follows new models and products, the companies building them, and their growing influence across work, media, entertainment and everyday technology.

    It also examines the trade-offs: security, reliability, accountability, jobs and the rules being proposed to govern powerful systems. For readers, AI is increasingly not a niche technology story but a lens on how digital services and institutions are changing.

    • This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust

      As competition intensifies over powerful open-weight AI models from China, the Trump administration is relying on a small, fragmented group of officials across different departments to decide on export controls and other restrictions, with no unified policy yet in place. This fragmentation matters because, according to a senior White House official, the disagreement is not…

    • Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 remakes would need even more games than the FF7 trilogy, Yoshi-P warns: “We’d probably end up having to release them in 4 or maybe even 5 installments”

      Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P, has said that if Square Enix were to remake Final Fantasy 6, 8 or 9, the projects would likely need even more entries than the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, which spans three large-scale games. His comments underline just how ambitious the FF7 remake project has become and raise doubts…

    • What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

      This is a Guardian review of Eleanor Drage’s book “What If We Got AI Right?”, which sets out to challenge Silicon Valley’s binary narrative that artificial intelligence will either usher in utopia or trigger apocalypse. Drage, a researcher at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, argues that AI is not some mystical force…

    • Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’

      Health experts have warned that AI-generated “doctors” are spreading misleading medical advice on TikTok, describing the trend as a “huge danger to public safety”. Research from digital marketing agency Hallam found that deepfake influencer accounts designed to resemble real physicians are racking up millions of views while promoting disproven cancer myths and dubious “miracle cure”…

    • Chipmaker CXMT becomes mainland China’s most valuable listed firm

      Shares in CXMT, China’s largest memory chip maker, soared more than 470% on their debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market, briefly making it the most valuable listed company in mainland China. The surge is notable because it came despite a global sell-off in technology stocks this month, and offers reassurance to Chinese officials who have been…

    • Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

      Startups are betting that the next bottleneck in humanoid and warehouse robotics won’t be model architecture but the scarcity of real-world physical training data, and some are now going as far as measuring workers’ brain waves to generate richer datasets. Encord, a company based in San Leandro, California, that traditionally built data-annotation tools for AI,…

    • Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra for workloads including AI

      Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant, has adopted hyperconverged infrastructure from Singaporean start-up Arcfra to replace VMware in some remote offices and to handle GPU virtualisation workloads, including AI. The move is significant because it makes Foxconn another high-profile defector from VMware since owner Broadcom overhauled its licensing and product strategy, joining other large organisations…

    • 4 Songs Every 60s Kid Heard While Riding in the Family Car to School Each Morning

      This article is a nostalgia-themed listicle from American Songwriter highlighting four songs that would have been staples on car radios for children being driven to school during the 1960s. The piece taps into a wave of similar “throwback” content aimed at reminding older readers of Top 40 hits from their childhood, without reporting any news…

    • Moment robot hilariously collapses mid-presentation… before being covered up like a corpse

      A humanoid robot became an unwitting comedy act after collapsing mid-demonstration, with footage showing the machine crumpling to the floor in front of onlookers before it was hurriedly draped in a sheet, giving the scene the look of a body being covered at a crime scene. The clip has circulated widely online because of the…

    • Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

      Moonshot AI’s release of its Kimi model has reignited debate over Chinese AI progress and its implications for American competitiveness, echoing the reaction seen earlier when DeepSeek launched. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O’Kane discussed why the story has become such a flashpoint, noting that OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly…