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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.
iOS 27 shipped worldwide with a rebuilt Siri running on Google’s Gemini models. It’s English only, opt-in, and still missing from Europe and China.
No Big Deal is a 25-minute British workplace comedy where every character, location and camera move was generated. It is being called a world first. The audience numbers and the outrage numbers are pointing in opposite directions.
A phone was carried onto the stage at the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang answered it, and the President of the United States spent five minutes on speakerphone calling AI safety concerns a hoax. The word was doing more work than it sounded like.
Meta spent three years flattening management to build an AI-native organization. Now it is quietly asking Applied AI staff to consider becoming managers again.
GreyNoise says a single attacker ran hundreds of AI agents combining OpenAI’s Codex and DeepSeek to breach 440 PaperCut servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, reaching remote code execution in under four hours.
Amazon’s new lip sync feature keeps human dub actors and uses AI to move the on-screen performer’s mouth to match them. It debuts on Maxton Hall, and it quietly crosses a line dubbing has respected for ninety years.
Anthropic’s fourth threat intelligence report documents five cases of biological misuse, including chikungunya gain-of-function work routed through gray market resellers. The bigger disclosure is buried in the framing: the company has stopped claiming its models are too weak to help.
Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers ratified a historic union contract with Microsoft that forces the company to discuss, evaluate, and bargain before deploying AI, alongside big raises, severance, and recall rights.