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.

  • Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

    Natural, a fintech startup building payment infrastructure designed for AI agents rather than humans, has raised $30 million in Series A funding as it prepares to compete with established players such as Stripe. The company argues that today’s financial rails, including credit cards and ACH transfers, rely on human authorisation and are too slow for…

  • Frontier LLMs couldn’t help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

    Hugging Face has disclosed that its production infrastructure was breached by an attack “driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system”, marking one of the clearest examples yet of AI-powered intrusions moving from theory to practice. The intruders compromised a limited set of internal datasets and several service credentials, though Hugging Face says…

  • Adobe crams multiple AI tools into its experimental camera app

    Adobe is adding a suite of generative AI tools to Project Indigo, its experimental smartphone camera app, in a feature set called AI Playground. This marks a shift for the app, which originally focused on giving mobile photographers a “natural SLR-like look,” and now embraces AI-driven editing and creative assistance at the point of capture.…

  • Toni Collette & Karren Karagulian Among New Additions To Netflix’s Italian-Set Romantic Caper ‘Positano’ From Daniel Roher

    Netflix has expanded the cast of “Positano,” a romantic caper film directed by Daniel Roher, adding Toni Collette, Karren Karagulian, Salvatore Esposito, Michele Savoia and Lorenzo de Moor. The Italian-set project already stars Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldaña and follows a jewel thief who abandons his comfortable life to help a mysterious woman pull off…

  • Netflix’s Iconic ’80s Sitcom Reboot Gets Official First Look

    Netflix has released the first official images from its reboot of the classic 1980s sitcom *A Different World*, confirming a premiere date of 24 September. The revival returns to the fictional Hillman College, a historically Black institution, more than 30 years after the original series ended, and marks the streamer’s latest attempt to revive a…

  • Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI

    Adobe has updated its Project Indigo camera app, which was originally designed to give iPhone photos a “natural, SLR-like” look, with a new suite of generative AI editing tools called “AI Playground.” The move is notable because it marks a shift for an app that had built its reputation on authentic, computational photography for “camera…

  • Julia Garner and Lewis Pullman to lead Apple TV true-crime drama

    Actor Lewis Pullman has been confirmed to co-star opposite Julia Garner in “Guilty Creatures”, a new Apple TV thriller series first announced on 6 July 2026. The show adapts Mikita Brottman’s true crime book “Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida”, following two adulterous, religious lovers whose affair leads to murder and the…

  • In the age of AI and layoffs, playing old games in 2026 is about more than nostalgia

    The article argues that returning to older video games in 2026 can provide emotional distance from an industry dominated by reports of generative AI, layoffs and studio closures. Its author presents retro gaming not simply as nostalgia, but as a way to enjoy games without associating them with the difficult working conditions and corporate decisions…

  • Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

    Adobe is expanding its experimental iOS camera app, Project Indigo, with a suite of AI-powered features that critique users’ photos and suggest edits, using large language models. Led by Marc Levoy, formerly behind Google Pixel’s camera technology, the update reflects a broader industry push to make generative AI tools more useful for everyday photographers by…

  • Billboard’s 2026 Top Music Lawyers Revealed

    Billboard has published its 2026 Top Music Lawyers list, recognising attorneys who negotiate recording deals, tours and catalogue sales for major artists and companies. The list arrives as generative AI dominates legal debate in the music industry, with lawyers playing a central role in disputes over whether AI firms have unlawfully used copyrighted songs to…