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.

    • The Mound: Omens of Cthulhu revives Left 4 Dead formula from Zeno Clash creators

      Rock Paper Shotgun previews The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from Chilean studio Ace Team, the developers behind Zeno Clash, The Eternal Cylinder and Clash: Artefacts of Chaos. Set in the 17th century, it casts four crucifix-wielding, musket-armed Spanish explorers who venture into a monster-filled jungle in search of loot, with the…

    • Anthropic launches phone control for its Claude Cowork AI assistant

      Anthropic has released a mobile companion feature for Claude Cowork, its computer-based AI assistant, allowing users to monitor and direct the tool from their phones. The update matters because it lets people keep track of tasks Claude is carrying out on their computer while away from it, extending the reach of an agent that was…

    • Anthropic brings its Claude cowork agent to mobile phones

      Anthropic has announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent for carrying out digital tasks, is expanding beyond the desktop app to run on smartphones and web browsers without requiring an active desktop session. The change matters because it removes the need for users to leave a laptop open to keep the agent running, allowing scheduled…

    • Simon Carman texted mother admitting truth before arrest over Thai teenager’s murder

      The mother of Australian truck driver Simon Carman initially believed that reports of her son’s arrest for the murder of a Thai teenager were an elaborate online scam involving AI-generated footage. Wendy Carman, 68, of Albany in Western Australia, was so convinced the images were fake that she messaged her son asking whether the family…

    • USMNT dazzle in home World Cup before Belgium end their run

      Fox News’s OutKick published an opinion piece counting down its five most memorable moments from the United States men’s national team’s run at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted on home soil. The article was prompted by the team’s tournament exit, a 4-1 defeat to Belgium late on Monday night in Seattle, but its overall…

    • Norm becomes a unicorn after raising $120 million for AI legal work

      AI legal startup Norm has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, giving the almost three-year-old company a valuation of $1.2 billion and pushing it into unicorn territory. The deal underscores continued investor appetite for legal technology that promises to automate routine legal work, an area now crowded with…

    • Solos unveils AirGo A6, a 19-gram camera-free smart glasses design

      Solos has unveiled the AirGo A6, a new version of its camera-free smart glasses that swaps any lens for a sleeker, lighter design paired with a voice-controlled AI assistant. At around 19 grams, the A6 is roughly half the weight of last year’s AirGo A5 (36 to 40 grams) and considerably lighter than the recently…

    • Here comes J. Edgar musical by Harry Shearer to premiere in London

      Comedians Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold are preparing to premiere their long-gestating musical “Here Comes J. Edgar” at London’s 200-seat King’s Head Theatre on 10 July, some three decades after they first began writing it. The show, about former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, matters both as a rare stage outing for the pair and…

    • Trump halts release of OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model

      OpenAI’s newest flagship artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is being released under an unusual restriction: access during its initial preview is limited to a small group of trusted partners approved by the Trump administration. According to the article, OpenAI previewed the model’s capabilities with the US government ahead of launch and, at the government’s request,…

    • Savi Security launches app to shield consumers from AI voice-cloning scams

      Savi Security, a startup founded by brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, has launched an app designed to shield ordinary consumers from increasingly convincing AI-generated scams delivered via text, email and phone. The company has raised $7 million in seed funding, led by Acrew Capital, and its iPhone and Android app goes live on Tuesday. The…