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.

Salman Rushdie Says AI Has ‘Zero’ Role in Storytelling, Teases New ‘Midnight’s Children’ TV Adaptation, Film of ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ (EXCLUSIVE)

July 8, 2026

Author Salman Rushdie has dismissed artificial intelligence as having “zero” role in literature, film or storytelling, arguing the technology is fundamentally incapable of originality. Speaking to Variety before accepting Liberatum’s 14th Cultural Honor in London on 8 July, he said AI can only absorb vast amounts of information and reproduce versions of it, whereas true…
I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

July 8, 2026

A WIRED writer describes experimenting with “self-improving” AI to automate parts of his newsletter, arguing that recursive self-improvement — often framed as the frontier labs’ path to superintelligence — is now within reach of ordinary users. His experiments suggest that this technology need not be monopolised by a handful of large AI companies, pointing to…
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

July 8, 2026

An expanded proposed class-action lawsuit against X and xAI, filed on Tuesday, alleges that a man used the Grok AI tool to generate roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos of his stepdaughter from a single photograph taken when she was 11. According to the complaint, Grok produced extreme material depicting incest and rape without…
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

July 8, 2026

Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

July 8, 2026

General Intuition, a startup building “embodied AI”, argues that robotics is on the verge of a shift comparable to the arrival of ChatGPT and foundation models. Its chief executive, Pim de Witte, contends that instead of building specialised robot models trained on vast amounts of task-specific real-world data, the industry should develop general-purpose foundation models…
Valve Steam Machine review: This would’ve been perfect five years ago

July 8, 2026

Engadget has published its review of Valve’s newly released Steam Machine, a living-room games console-cum-PC, awarding it 6.5 out of 10. Reviewer Jessica Conditt concludes that while the concept is appealing, the hardware is too expensive and underpowered to justify its $1,049 starting price, arguing it would have been an excellent product had it launched…
Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

July 8, 2026

Google has announced “Video Remix”, a new tool in Google Photos that uses artificial intelligence to edit and transform videos within seconds. Powered by Google’s recently released Gemini Omni model, the feature lets users apply effects such as cinematic relighting, background swaps and artistic styles with only a few taps. The launch reflects Google’s broader…
Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet

July 8, 2026

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and WooCommerce, has funded a short documentary titled “Code for the People” that champions the open-source software movement and urges internet users to defend the open web. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Bao Nguyen, the roughly 20-minute film frames itself as both a human story and a manifesto, warning that…
RUDY SARZO Defends His Use Of A.I. To Make Solo Music: ‘I’ve Been Jumping On New Technology Since The Electric Guitar Existed’

July 8, 2026

Veteran rock bassist Rudy Sarzo, known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot, has defended his use of artificial intelligence in producing his two new solo singles, “Your Heart Is The Road” and “For The Love Of Love”. Speaking to Thomas S. Orwat, Jr. of the Rock Interview Series, the 75-year-old argued that…
Explosive report finds $230M in alleged K-12 education fraud amid Trump’s crackdown: ‘Especially hideous’

July 8, 2026

A coalition of state financial officers has published a report claiming to have identified roughly $225 million in alleged fraud across US schools over the past six years, spanning nearly 90 cases of embezzlement, fake invoices, inflated enrolment, bid-rigging and kickbacks. Obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, the report by the State Financial Officers Foundation…