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.

    • An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise

      Lyzr, a three-year-old enterprise AI-agent startup based in Jersey City, New Jersey, has raised a $100 million Series B at a valuation of roughly $500 million — and, according to Bloomberg, it let its own AI agent run the fundraise. The system, named SivaClaw, reportedly fielded questions from more than 130 investors, drafted investment memos…

    • OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

      OpenAI is closing down Atlas, the AI-powered web browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its heart, but it is not abandoning the wider goal of using AI to help people browse the web. Rather than maintaining a standalone browser, the company is redistributing the agentic browsing features it trialled in Atlas across ChatGPT’s…

    • Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

      Elon Musk has publicly praised Anthropic and pledged never to abruptly “cut off” the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers, after users on X suggested he could disable a rival that relies on his infrastructure. Musk went so far as to admit he was “clearly wrong about Anthropic,” reversing his September 2025 claim that “winning was…

    • Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

      Sequoia partner David Cahn, who three years ago first quantified the revenue needed to justify Silicon Valley’s spending on AI infrastructure, has updated his calculations to reflect the industry’s continued expansion. He now estimates that AI infrastructure spending will reach $1.5 trillion in 2026, and that the sector will ultimately need to generate around $3…

    • Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Is Advising the Federal Reserve on the Economic Impact of AI as Part of a ‘Productivity and Jobs’ Taskforce

      The US Federal Reserve has appointed Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma to a newly formed “Productivity and Jobs” taskforce charged with assessing the economic impact of new technologies, including artificial intelligence. The appointment is notable both for its high profile — Sharma sits alongside venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Stanford economist Charles I. Jones —…

    • OpenAI releases a new ChatGPT tool for all things work related

      OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent that marks the biggest step yet in its months-long effort to build a desktop “super app” combining ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent and the Atlas web browser. Whereas Codex focused mainly on coding, Work is pitched as a broader assistant for ambitious everyday tasks, and it…

    • The ChatGPT browser is already dead

      OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser capable of carrying out tasks on a user’s behalf, less than a year after its launch. Announced in October, the browser will be “sunsetted” with deprecation targeted for 9 August, a decision confirmed as part of OpenAI’s broader “ChatGPT Work” announcements. The move matters because…

    • Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI

      Google has announced that it will begin telling users when an advertisement was created or edited using artificial intelligence, adding a “created or edited with AI” label to ads shown across Google Search, Google Discover and YouTube. The move brings greater transparency to AI-generated advertising at a time when such tools are becoming more widespread,…

    • AI-generated ads on Google will hopefully get disclosures soon

      Google is introducing new transparency tools to indicate when generative AI has been used in advertisements shown across its platforms. A new “How this ad was made” section is being added to the My Ad Center panel, available globally on Google Search, YouTube and Discover, aimed at helping users understand how the ads they encounter…

    • ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 Adds Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, Jerome Flynn

      American network FX has announced three new additions to the cast of “Alien: Earth” Season 2, with Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell and Jerome Flynn all joining the series. The trio bolster an already sizeable ensemble for the second run of the show, created by Noah Hawley and set within Ridley Scott’s “Alien” universe, with production…