Talk Fuse

    Topic: 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.

    • Netflix admits to using GenAI both in the app and on 300 movies and shows in 2026 alone

      Netflix is using AI to “lower costs” and create bigger scenes that would otherwise have been left out

    • Netflix have used generative AI on 300 titles in 2026

      Netflix has said that generative AI workflows were used on roughly 300 titles during 2026, chiefly in post-production. The disclosure shows how rapidly the company is incorporating AI into programme-making, with Netflix arguing that it can help creative teams produce higher-quality work more quickly and cheaply. Netflix said AI has been used from concept development…

    • San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

      San Francisco’s city attorney, David Chiu, has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 AI face-swapping apps that can generate non-consensual nude images. The action matters because the city argues the companies may be profiting from technology that facilitates sexual abuse and that stronger app-store moderation is needed to prevent…

    • Lorde criticises Spotify over AI-generated song and album descriptions

      Lorde has publicly criticised Spotify for using artificial intelligence to generate introductory blurbs that accompany songs and albums on the platform. She argued that these AI-written descriptions can be inaccurate and risk colouring how listeners interpret her music before they have heard it for themselves, and she called on Spotify to give artists the ability…

    • How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality

      This sponsored article promotes Gartner’s 2026 Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit in London, presenting it as a way for enterprise technology leaders to move AI projects from pilots into production. It argues that boards now expect measurable returns from AI, including cost savings and staff redeployment, but that technical complexity, weak data foundations and…

    • Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

      This NMC debut album from British composer Robert Laidlow sets ambitious scientific and technological ideas to orchestral and chamber music, ranging from Einstein’s field equations to artificial intelligence’s impact on creativity. The Guardian’s review finds Laidlow’s work intricate and wildly imaginative yet still approachable for listeners, despite the complexity of the underlying concepts, making it…

    • Bollywood Star Jacqueline Fernandez Launches AI Avatar (EXCLUSIVE)

      Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez has launched an AI-powered digital avatar that shares her personal book recommendations, late-night reflections and life stories with audiences. The avatar was created by Galleri5, the in-house AI studio of Collective Artists Network, using conversational AI, voice synthesis and interactive narrative tools, and is designed to reflect her personality and worldview…

    • ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast

      Iason Gabriel, a philosopher who has worked at Google DeepMind since 2017, features in this Guardian Audio Long Read exploring the role of ethicists inside a leading AI company. The piece examines how Gabriel and colleagues attempt to anticipate the societal impact of artificial intelligence and grapple with fundamental questions about the nature of these…

    • ‘Alien’s Ripley Is Great, but This Survival Horror Game Character Does It Better

      The article argues that Amanda Ripley, protagonist of the 2014 survival horror game Alien: Isolation, deserves more recognition as an “Alien” franchise lead than she typically gets, suggesting she could carry a screen adaptation on her own merits. This comes amid the franchise’s recent shifts, including the sidelining of Ridley Scott’s prequel films, the release…

    • South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

      South Korea is developing a security-focused AI model intended to give the country sovereign capabilities for finding software vulnerabilities. The initiative reflects concerns that access to powerful US-developed AI systems could be restricted, potentially leaving other countries and their security agencies at a disadvantage. Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the government hopes to adapt…