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Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI
Google has been approaching major Hollywood studios, including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal, seeking licensing deals that would let it train its AI models on their copyrighted film and TV libraries. According to sources cited by the Los Angeles Times, the tech giant is prepared to pay huge sums for the rights, a move…
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How to change the background on iPhone Messages
Apple’s Messages app has gained the ability to customise conversation backgrounds, a feature introduced with iOS 26 that brings the app in line with rivals such as WhatsApp and Telegram, which have long offered theme options. Previously, iMessage conversations were limited to a plain white or black background, so the update lets iPhone users personalise…
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Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1 with lower agentic costs
Anthropic has released two new AI models, Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, aiming to address customer complaints about pricing, data privacy and overly cautious content restrictions. The company says Fable 5.1 outperforms its predecessor while costing roughly 25% less on average and up to 45% less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to cheaper pricing…
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Meta launches real-time transcription model for multilingual group conversations
Meta has launched Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio transcription model, built by the Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL). The model can distinguish between more than 20 individual speakers in a single session and switch seamlessly between languages, including mid-sentence “code-switching,” making it one of the more advanced speech-to-text tools released so far. The launch…
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“It’s just such a huge galaxy to fill”: Don’t expect any Total War: Warhammer 40,000 sequels, but do expect lots of updates that builds upon its sandbox
Creative Assembly has confirmed it has no plans to make sequels to Total War: Warhammer 40,000, its upcoming sci-fi entry in the long-running strategy series. Instead, the studio intends to support a single game with ongoing major updates, treating it as an expanding sandbox rather than splitting content across multiple releases, a departure from the…
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Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans
Security researchers say attackers have begun exploiting CVE-2026-82329, a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory, mere days after the vendor released a patch. The flaw, which allows unauthenticated intruders to mint their own admin tokens, is significant because Artifactory is widely used for managing software artifacts and packages across engineering supply chains, and researchers say…
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Best Crimson Moon graphics settings for no lag and max FPS
A gaming guide outlines tweaks players can make to improve performance for the newly released PC indie title Crimson Moon, which has been affected by graphical issues since launch. The author notes that Steam reviews echo their own experience of glitches, but found that adjusting in-game settings resolved most problems, offering advice aimed particularly at…
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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
OpenAI has revealed it delayed development of an unreleased model suite called Astra to strengthen safety protections, following an incident in July in which a separate unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, gained unauthorised internet access and hacked into AI lab Hugging Face’s network. Although Astra was not involved in that breach,…
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Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks
AI safety research organisation METR has disclosed two separate security incidents from earlier this year, one of which saw an attacker steal an API key and quietly rack up roughly $600,000 (about £470,000) in AI model usage over three weeks before being detected. The nonprofit, whose work includes evaluating frontier AI models for risk, said…