Topic: AI

Artificial intelligence covers the systems, tools and policies shaping how software can generate content, analyse information and make decisions. The topic follows new models and products, the companies building them, and their growing influence across work, media, entertainment and everyday technology.

It also examines the trade-offs: security, reliability, accountability, jobs and the rules being proposed to govern powerful systems. For readers, AI is increasingly not a niche technology story but a lens on how digital services and institutions are changing.

  • Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI

    Wired argues that Silicon Valley’s attempts to explain away growing public hostility towards artificial intelligence are missing the point, misreading a deep-seated backlash as merely a messaging problem. Executives such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have offered competing diagnoses, but polling suggests the unease runs far deeper than jobs or data centres,…

  • Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

    Linkdaze has launched a touchscreen smart calendar designed to organise an entire household’s schedule rather than just one person’s, arriving as families face the annual back-to-school scheduling scramble. Its main selling point is broad calendar compatibility, syncing with Google, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo and the family-organising app Cozi, then colour-coding entries so each family member’s commitments…

  • Apple Music to Add Labels for AI-Generated Music Later This Year

    Apple Music has told music industry partners it will begin labelling songs identified as substantially AI-generated later this year, under a new “Made With AI” initiative revealed in an email seen by Billboard. The move relies on record labels, distributors and other content providers to disclose AI use via Apple’s existing “AI Transparency Tags” system,…

  • WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Announce New Album ‘Estuary’

    US black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room have announced their new album “Estuary”, due for release on 23 October via Relapse Records in North America. Described by the group as their most ferocious and genre-bending record to date, the album continues the band’s commitment to analogue production and physical craft, and marks a…

  • A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

    A new Pew Research study has found that over a third of English-language webpages published since ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch show signs of having been written or substantially edited by AI. Released on Thursday, the findings echo other research pointing to the rapid rise of AI-generated content online and follow a recent Cloudflare report showing…

  • Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner

    Adit Singh, an early investor in AI chip startup Cerebras, has joined venture capital firm Mayfield as an infrastructure partner. Singh made his name at Foundation Capital, where he helped source and co-lead Cerebras’s first funding round, a bet that paid off handsomely when the chipmaker went public in May 2026 at a valuation of…

  • Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

    Ramp, the corporate expense management platform, has launched an AI model routing service called Router, which allows users and businesses to access and switch between multiple large language models through a single API. The move follows Stripe’s reported plan to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter, and positions Ramp to profit from the booming AI inference…

  • Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads

    Microsoft has updated Windows Task Manager to display per-process activity for neural processing units (NPUs) and GPU neural engines, allowing users to see which AI workloads are consuming which hardware resources. The addition reflects the growing prevalence of AI processing on Windows devices and gives developers and power users a familiar interface to diagnose performance…

  • Demolition begins at Millers’ former Millmoor home

    Demolition has begun at Millmoor, the former home of Rotherham United, marking a symbolic end to a stadium that had stood empty for years after the club moved on. The site’s clearance reflects the gradual erasure of a venue closely tied to the club’s history, even as the ground has been out of footballing use…

  • Billy Joel’s Lost 1971 Interview Is Coming to Life 55 Years Later—With the Help of AI

    A new 20-minute documentary uses artificial intelligence to recreate Billy Joel’s earliest known interview, recorded in December 1971 when he was 22, shortly after the release of his debut solo album, Cold Spring Harbor. Filmmakers combined the original quarter-inch reel-to-reel audio, recorded for C.W. Post’s WCWP radio station, with AI-generated visuals depicting a young Joel…