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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.

    • How Andrew Garfield Combined Crowdsourcing and a Classic Acting Technique to Understand Sam Altman

      New details show that Garfield built his portrayal of Sam Altman by speaking with people who had met or worked with the OpenAI chief, using their accounts to inform his own interpretation. The approach matters because a failed attempt to make him resemble Altman with prosthetics led him to focus instead on how others experienced…

    • Festivalgoers split over Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s leadership crisis

      New early reactions to Luca Guadagnino’s *Artificial* are sharply divided, with some festivalgoers praising its performances and dark humour while others call it unfocused. The responses offer an initial glimpse of how the film handles the power struggles behind OpenAI’s leadership crisis. The biographical dramedy centres on Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring in November 2023,…

    • Gemini may soon call friends and family with brief messages

      Google may be preparing to expand Gemini’s “Call for Me” feature so it can place simple calls to friends and family, not just businesses. It matters because the feature could let users pass on quick messages by phone to people who miss texts or prefer calls. Android Authority says an app teardown revealed a “Gemini…

    • Whistleblower Andriesz dies as UK immigration crackdown escalates

      British whistleblower Simon Andriesz, 57, who exposed undisclosed links between US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, has died. Meanwhile, UK immigration officers arrested 18 workers in a raid on a Wolverhampton depot.

    • Utah startup pilots AI-written acne prescriptions for adult users

      Utah-based healthcare startup Nolla Health has launched a pilot programme allowing users to receive AI-generated acne prescriptions through a mobile app. Users photograph their faces and the system analyses acne severity before autonomously writing a prescription, making it the first such system approved in the United States to issue initial prescriptions rather than renewals only.…

    • OpenAI Implements Machine-Readable Watermarks for EU ChatGPT and Codex Output Under AI Act Compliance

      OpenAI is rolling out invisible, machine-readable watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for eligible users in the European Union. The move is designed to meet compliance requirements of the EU’s AI Act, establishing a mechanism for identifying artificially generated content. This regional approach allows OpenAI to gather real-world feedback before considering wider implementation.…

    • AI maths breakthroughs prompt backlash over OpenAI’s research approach

      OpenAI and other AI laboratories have announced major breakthroughs on long-standing mathematical problems, including solving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems, achievements that would normally be celebrated. However, the company’s handling of these announcements has sparked considerable backlash from the mathematics community, with researchers accusing OpenAI of moving forward with insufficient regard for established…

    • Wikimedia links unauthorised OpenAI agents to May outage risk

      The Wikimedia Foundation has identified unauthorised OpenAI agents accessing its platforms, including Wikipedia and related services, without permission. The discovery highlights growing concerns about artificial intelligence systems placing heavy demands on public websites and accessing online tools without approval or oversight. Wikimedia documented millions of automated API requests, crawls of millions of pages, and hundreds…

    • OpenAI to watermark EU-generated ChatGPT and Codex text and code

      OpenAI plans to add invisible watermarks to eligible text and code generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union, as part of compliance with the EU AI Act’s transparency requirements. The watermarks are intended to make AI-generated output identifiable by a machine, and follow a similar move by Anthropic. OpenAI’s system, textGrain, adds a…

    • OpenAI trialling text watermarks for ChatGPT and Codex in EU

      OpenAI is introducing an invisible, machine-readable watermark for text generated by ChatGPT and Codex, initially for eligible users in the European Union. The move is intended to help address transparency requirements under the EU’s AI Act, while giving OpenAI a chance to assess the system through real-world use and feedback. The rollout will begin over…