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The MCU Series You’ve Never Seen Is Officially Returning
Marvel’s Runaways, the underrated Hulu series that ran from 2017 to 2019, is making a comeback in the comics with a new standalone What If issue. The announcement comes as Marvel looks to build momentum in 2026 following a mixed 2025 at the box office, with the publisher keen to remind fans of properties that…
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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, which it describes as its largest and most capable AI model yet, claiming its performance rivals leading systems from US firms Anthropic and OpenAI as well as domestic competitor Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. The launch, announced in a blog post on Monday, follows a preview last month in…
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Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI’s dystopian impact on their craft
Science fiction authors John Scalzi and Charles Stross have publicly condemned the impact of generative AI on writing, accusing AI companies of stealing copyrighted work and creating legal and reputational hazards for authors. Stross, who is party to a class-action settlement over Anthropic’s alleged use of pirated ebooks to train its models, branded AI firms…
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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport, has emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to tackle a growing problem: even as businesses rush to adopt AI, integrating it with existing enterprise software remains so difficult that companies are hiring armies of specialist “forward-deployed engineers” just to get systems working.…
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AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
AI-powered voice ordering is rapidly spreading through US fast-food drive-thrus, moving from a novelty that surprised customers to a mainstream feature at major chains. Taco Bell has rolled out the technology at 890 drive-thru lanes (over 10% of its US locations), Dairy Queen is deploying it across 25 states with plans to expand chain-wide, and…
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This lawyer believes in second chances. Now AI is providing a boost
Noella Sudbury, a former public defender in Utah, has founded Rasa Legal, a nonprofit that uses artificial intelligence to help people with criminal records get them expunged, opening the door to better job prospects. The initiative targets what is described as the “second chance expungement gap”: an estimated 20 million Americans are legally eligible to…
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“There was a guy shooting at us from his balcony. It turned out he’d been sniffing glue.” The story of the UK’s only top-10 nu metal hit
In February 2002, the Suffolk rock band A released the single “Nothing”, which unexpectedly became the only British song widely regarded as a genuine Top 10 nu metal hit, despite the band never identifying with the genre themselves. Frontman Jason Perry has spoken about the track’s legacy, noting the irony that a band with roots…
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Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it
Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, is proving surprisingly effective at “digital archaeology” – reverse-engineering obsolete computer systems – according to talks given at the UK’s National Museum of Computing (TNMoC) at Bletchley Park. The museum, known for restoring and documenting historic machines from Colossus to 1970s mainframes, has recently hosted presenters describing how the…
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Football Weekly’s summer mailbag: AI, how transfer gossip works and more – part two
This Guardian Football Weekly podcast episode is a summer mailbag special, in which host Max Rushden and a panel of regular contributors answer listener-submitted questions on a range of football-adjacent topics. It forms the second part of the mailbag series, continuing discussions started in an earlier episode, and offers a lighter, listener-driven format compared to…