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    AI

    AI is reshaping how businesses, governments and creative industries operate, and this hub tracks the debates, breakthroughs and mishaps that come with that shift. It covers the technology's expanding footprint, from data centre investment and enterprise infrastructure spending to proposals for automating public sector roles, alongside the cultural pushback over AI's place in art and creative work.

    It also follows the growing scrutiny of AI safety and accountability, including research into how models behave when given autonomy, scrutiny of their security vulnerabilities, and disagreement among experts and policymakers over how tightly the technology should be regulated. Legal and ethical stumbles, such as fabricated evidence in court filings or missteps in how AI systems interact with the public, feature regularly too.

    Taken together, the coverage reflects a technology moving faster than the institutions meant to oversee it, making it essential reading for anyone trying to understand what AI means for their job, their rights and the wider world around them.

    • Standard PS5 gains Sony’s AI upscaling in two game updates

      Sony has brought AI upscaling to the standard PS5, with Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei the first games to support its Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) technology. The move extends image-enhancement features beyond the more powerful PS5 Pro, after players and developers asked whether a similar option could be offered on the base console.…

    • Sony brings AI upscaling to standard PS5 with new QSSR technology

      Sony has launched Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new AI graphics upscaling technology for the standard PS5, developed through its Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD. This brings AI-enhanced image quality improvements to the base console, addressing poor upscaling that has affected many PS5 titles. The technology is now available to all PlayStation developers, with…

    • Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

      A suspected Chinese espionage group has impersonated senior AI policy figures in phishing campaigns targeting American experts at universities, think tanks, and law firms, according to security researchers at Proofpoint. The group, tracked as TA419, aimed to harvest login credentials from AI policy specialists working on issues of strategic importance to Beijing. This campaign represents…

    • AWS open-sources Rust library to check AI agents’ tool calls

      AWS has released Dogwood Local Engine (DLE), an open-source Rust library designed to control AI agents by checking their tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they execute. The release addresses growing concerns about AI agents going out of control and taking unintended actions, providing what AWS describes as a safety “leash” for agent behaviour…

    • Microsoft reshapes Copilot into an AI platform for work and home

      Microsoft is reshaping Copilot into an “OS for work”, combining consumer and business experiences and adding coding, Office and AI agent features. CEO Satya Nadella is betting that the assistant can change workplace habits as profoundly as Microsoft Office did, while making it useful and appealing enough for both home and work. The redesigned app…

    • Chesky says AI agents need reliable software infrastructure for travel apps

      Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky says AI agents will need reliable software infrastructure, and that Airbnb is working to make its service more compatible with them. The company has introduced AI-powered search, but Chesky argues that chat alone is poorly suited to browsing and shopping, particularly when travel planning is part of the enjoyment. He…

    • Anthropic proposes conditional opt-out for AI training on Australian content

      Anthropic is urging Australia to consider a conditional opt-out system for AI companies training models on copyrighted Australian material, after the government ruled out a broad text and data mining exemption. The ABC and SBS oppose giving AI firms easier access to news content, arguing they should face media rules and help fund journalism. Anthropic…

    • HPE and Nvidia tailor AI infrastructure to organisations’ needs

      HPE and NVIDIA have unveiled a portfolio of “AI Factory” solutions to help organisations implement AI infrastructure tailored to their specific requirements. The partnership addresses different AI ambitions—from frontier model training to high-volume inference and agentic AI—each requiring distinct infrastructure and operational expertise. The HPE AI Factory portfolio provides three tiers: HPE Private Cloud AI…

    • Tokyo court rules AI voice cloning without consent violates publicity rights

      A Tokyo court has ruled that human voices are legally protected in a landmark AI case. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda won a partial victory after claiming his voice had been cloned by an anonymous TikTok account to narrate videos without permission. The court sided with Tsuda, ruling that using someone’s voice without consent infringes…

    • Photon raises $4.5m to build AI agents for messaging services

      Photon, a startup building tools for AI agents that operate through messaging services, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. Its founders argue that agents could reduce the need for standalone mobile apps by reaching users through services they already use, though CEO Daniel Tian says the transition will take time. The company says it…