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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.

    • Erling Haaland becomes viral World Cup meme through fake AI videos

      A viral video appearing to show Norway’s Erling Haaland flinching at his own reflection in a restaurant racked up more than 31 million views on X during the 2026 World Cup, but it was not real. Fact-checkers traced the footage to a June skit by Chinese comedian Jin Long, yet the clip kept spreading even…

    • Pete Holmes keeps screen time low and ignores 55,000 unread emails

      Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO’s Crashing, spoke to WIRED for its “User Behavior” series about how he keeps his phone use unusually low and why he believes we are all on the verge of “slowly walking away” from our devices. He argues that much of modern digital life amounts to “manufactured urgency” that people…

    • Suno recruits Atlantic and YouTube executives to court music industry

      Suno, the artificial-intelligence music generation company, has hired two experienced music-industry executives into vice-president roles as it seeks to position itself as a partner to the sector rather than an adversary. Grace James, formerly of Atlantic Records, joins as vice-president and head of artist marketing and editorial, while Christian Bowne, previously YouTube’s head of major…

    • Mass Balance sends autonomous chemistry lab into orbit to study disease proteins

      British startup Mass Balance has launched an autonomous, self-run chemical laboratory into orbit, aiming to gather data on hard-to-study, disease-causing proteins in the near-absence of gravity. The grapefruit-sized apparatus lifted off aboard a SpaceX transporter on Tuesday morning and matters because it represents an early step towards using space as a routine research environment for…

    • Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution

      Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being delayed or cancelled just as demand for the computing power behind artificial intelligence surges. The Uptime Institute, which rates datacentres, found that of 250 global projects above 100MW announced between 2021 and 2024, roughly half will either not go ahead or will be completed late. This backlog…

    • Zinc Media forms dedicated AI label Cicada to centralise operations

      Zinc Media Group, the UK-based factual production and distribution company behind labels such as Brook Lapping, Rex, Supercollider and Tern, has launched a dedicated artificial intelligence label called Cicada. The move matters because it formalises the group’s growing AI operations into a single unit, reflecting a wider industry trend of production companies creating official AI…

    • Dignity at work in an age of automation, Sarah O’Connor’s new book

      A Financial Times journalist ponders the future of labour in world increasingly dominated by AI and automationIt’s never been easy to land and keep a decent job. But it feels like it’s getting harder. In June, the number of job vacancies in the UK fell to a five-year low; headlines warn of a looming AI-employment…

    • AI systems already cheating and deceiving, Australian technology minister warns

      Australia’s assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, has warned that artificial intelligence systems are already “cheating, deceiving and going their own way”, doing things their creators never intended. Speaking at an AI safety forum in Sydney, he argued that the moment to address such behaviour is while it remains confined to the testing lab rather…

    • Samsung forecasts 1,800% profit surge as AI fuels South Korean memory chip boom

      South Korean memory chip manufacturers are experiencing unprecedented financial growth as artificial intelligence infrastructure deployment accelerates globally. Samsung Electronics forecasts operating profits will surge

    • South Korea’s Samsung forecasts record profit surge on AI memory chip demand

      Samsung Electronics has said it expects an almost 19-fold jump in quarterly operating profits — a rise of roughly 1,800% — driven by soaring global demand for AI memory chips. The South Korean firm forecast operating profits of 89.4tn won (£43.6bn; $58.4bn) for the April-to-June period, its third record quarterly profit in a row, underscoring…