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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.

    • Ariana Grande joins American Horror Story season 13 with September premiere date

      FX has confirmed that its long-running horror anthology American Horror Story will premiere its 13th season on Thursday 24 September, airing at 9pm ET on FX and Hulu and streaming globally on Disney+. The new run is being promoted as an all-star reunion, drawing back a roster of familiar faces from across the show’s history…

    • Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

      Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, a new in-house AI model it says is capable of competing on software coding tasks, and has opened it up to developers through a new Meta Model API. The move matters because it marks Meta’s push to turn its heavy AI spending into a product that can rival offerings…

    • Say hello to Claude Wrapped

      Anthropic has launched a “reflect” feature, dubbed a “reflection dashboard,” for its Claude chatbot, joining a wave of Spotify Wrapped-style lookback tools that have spread across apps from YouTube to Uber. Announced on Thursday, the feature lets users see an analysis of their Claude usage over the past month, three months, six months or year,…

    • Here’s how to block Meta from using your Instagram pictures for its AI

      Meta has launched a new AI image tool called Muse Image across Instagram, Meta AI and WhatsApp, but the rollout has drawn criticism because all public Instagram profiles have been automatically opted in to be used in the tool’s AI “remixes”. This means anyone can tag a public account in a prompt and use Meta…

    • Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

      Character.AI has announced c.ai Series, a slate of short-form, episodic “microdramas” designed to be watched and interacted with on a phone, marking the latest step in the company’s push to become a broader storytelling platform beyond its LLM-powered chatbots. Unlike rival services such as ReelShort and DramaBox, which offer cheaply produced live-action shows with human…

    • Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

      Ollama, the open source tool that lets developers run open-weight AI models locally on their own machines, has raised a $65 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures. The funding, which follows a $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton and brings total investment to $88 million, underscores growing investor appetite for…

    • AI Platform Character.ai Introduces Suite of Microseries Focused on Anime, Horror, Action Adventure: ‘Deeper Connection Between Fans and Characters’

      Character.ai, the platform known for letting users create and chat with AI-generated characters, has launched “c.ai Series”, a collection of short AI-made microseries built around characters native to its platform. What sets the format apart, the company says, is that the experience does not end when an episode finishes: users aged over 18 can continue…

    • Character.ai’s New Business? Microdramas

      Character.ai, the chatbot company founded by former Google engineers, is launching a microdrama division, marking a notable diversification for a firm best known for its AI companion chatbots. The company will announce on Thursday that it has created AI-generated animated vertical-video series, penned by hired Hollywood writers but produced using artificial intelligence rather than traditional…

    • FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer

      Image Line has released FL Studio 2026, a free upgrade to its music production software, headlined by a significant expansion of its AI chatbot, Gopher. Whereas Gopher previously functioned as little more than an interactive instruction manual that pointed users to relevant help topics, it can now carry out actions directly within a project. The…

    • Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

      Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys and one of India’s best-known technology figures, is stepping down as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded in 2017. The change coincides with the launch of Fundamentum’s third fund, which is targeting around $200 million. Although he is relinquishing the GP title, Nilekani will…