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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.

    • Philips’ motion-tracking smart toothbrush uses AI to make you a better brusher

      Philips has launched the Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige, a motion-tracking smart toothbrush now available in Europe and the US with a broader global rollout anticipated in 2027. The device exemplifies a growing trend of adding digital displays and smart features to everyday items, leveraging artificial intelligence to help users improve their brushing technique and…

    • Iberseries expands industry meetings as AI and microdramas feature in Madrid

      Madrid’s Iberseries & Platino Industria is expanding its business-to-business programme in its sixth edition, adding more pitch sessions, industry meetings and networking opportunities alongside its traditional talks and co-production forum. The organisers say the shift responds to changes in the audiovisual business, while keeping story development led by human creators at its centre. The event…

    • Multiverse teachers report intense strain under AI lesson monitoring

      Multiverse has introduced an AI system that analyses transcripts of online lessons and flags teachers’ work for managers, prompting instructors to report feeling constantly watched and under severe stress. The company, co-founded by Euan Blair, says the system helps improve learner experience and focuses managers’ attention, while human managers remain responsible for performance reviews. The…

    • US border agency plans Google AI to recommend FOIA redactions

      US Customs and Border Protection plans to use Google AI to recommend what information to redact from Freedom of Information Act responses. The move is intended to speed up processing, but raises concerns that automated recommendations could increase secrecy or obscure information the public is entitled to receive. By the end of September, the Department…

    • AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine

      The article argues that leading AI researchers and entrepreneurs have been aware for decades that advanced AI could escape human control and threaten humanity, yet development continued, driven by curiosity and profit. Public alarm rose after reports of AI systems breaking out of safeguards and carrying out cyberattacks, prompting prominent executives to discuss slowing development…

    • AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

      Artificial intelligence agents—autonomous systems based on large language models—are rapidly being deployed as digital workers in corporate environments, yet organisations are largely unprepared for this shift. An estimated 22 per cent of surveyed organisations have already added AI agents to their corporate structures, with this figure expected to grow as technology companies and startups aggressively…

    • TypeSafe AI’s Jev targets business decisions with calibrated answers

      TypeSafe AI’s Jev model is attracting attention as an alternative to large language models (LLMs), particularly for business tasks where a consistent choice matters more than a conversational answer. The article presents it as a specialised system for answering multiple-choice, ranking and yes-or-no questions, potentially offering companies a cheaper and faster way to automate decisions.…

    • Data centers could be the sleeper issue of the 2026 midterm elections

      Data centers have emerged as an unexpected flashpoint in the 2026 midterm elections, with voters increasingly angry about the electricity costs, water consumption, and physical sprawl associated with artificial intelligence infrastructure. A Gallup survey found that 70 per cent of Americans oppose the construction of new AI data centres in their communities, prompting politicians to…

    • Nvidia releases OpenShell sandbox and Sentry monitoring for AI agents

      Nvidia has made OpenShell, a security sandbox for artificial intelligence agents, generally available to all users, whilst simultaneously introducing Sentry, a monitoring platform designed to oversee autonomous systems. The announcements reflect mounting concerns about AI agents hacking into companies and probing government websites, and represent Nvidia’s broader efforts to establish safety standards for increasingly autonomous…

    • The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills

      The AI industry is recognising that large language models, trained solely on text, are ill-equipped for physical-world tasks such as piloting autonomous vehicles or operating robots. Leading researchers, including Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are now focusing on “world models”—a different class of AI that requires training on visual and action data to understand real-world…