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Chelsea’s chaos, Burnham’s caution and Newsnight’s axe threat
Labour’s Andy Burnham has ruled out a snap election but not tax rises, while the BBC weighs axing Newsnight; in the US, Trump faces a fresh impeachment bid; a Stanford study warns AI is squeezing young workers hardest; and Chelsea won a wild Fulham derby.
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ARIA excludes unauthorised AI music from Australian charts
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has become the first chart body in the world to bar unauthorised AI-generated music from its official sales and streaming charts, adopting eligibility principles set out by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The change follows an AI-assisted cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” reaching Australia’s top…
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Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?
The Guardian is inviting readers to share their views on whether Google’s growing use of artificial intelligence has improved or worsened its search engine. Google now places AI-generated “AI Overviews” at the top of search results, summarising answers before users reach the traditional list of links, a shift the company describes as its most significant…
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SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
Elon Musk has said SpaceX will launch a “space-optimised” Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit in the fourth quarter of next year, with plans to scale up significantly by 2028. The announcement, made on X and echoed in a slightly differently worded Nvidia press release, marks an ambitious step towards putting datacentre hardware…
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Opposition to Scotland’s rapidly growing datacentre pipeline is intensifying, with campaigners and politicians warning that Holyrood is “inching towards” a moratorium on new developments. The focus of anger is a proposed 600MW facility in Auchtertool, Fife, which would be larger than the village itself and is billed as potentially the second-biggest datacentre in the world;…
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Songs created by AI banned from Australia’s music charts
Australia’s music industry body ARIA has confirmed new rules banning songs that are largely or wholly created by AI from the country’s music charts, requiring all eligible releases to be “substantially human made” from this week. The change follows controversy over Australian DJ Josh Fawaz’s AI-assisted cover of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”, which topped the…
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How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s launch
NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on 30 August, with live coverage of the event set to begin at 6:20am Eastern time ahead of a targeted lift-off no earlier than 7:26am. The mission is significant because Roman is designed to survey a much wider portion of the sky than the…
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India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Indian startup Airbound has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with backing from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures, as it seeks to make drone-based delivery as cheap as trucking. The three-year-old company builds vertical-flight, rocket-like drones designed to weigh less than the cargo they carry, aiming to close…
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Record one in seven now on antidepressants as pill use rockets
A record one in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year, with 9.1 million patients given the drugs by their GP, according to figures from the NHS Business Services Authority. This marks a rise of more than 15 per cent over five years and comes amid a sharp increase in depression and anxiety…