When 10,000 authors want to make a point, sometimes the loudest statement is silence. Don't Steal This Book — a volume whose pages contain nothing but a list of names — arrived at the London Book Fair this week as a stark protest against AI companies training their models on writers' work without permission or payment.
Anthropic has found itself, reluctantly, as one of the only checks on the military's expanding AI ambitions — a role no private company was built to play
The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever and its clearest attempt yet to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows laptops. Unlike the MacBook Air and Pro, the Neo runs on an iPhone-class A-series chip, which helps Apple cut the starting price sharply while keeping the design lightweight and colorful.
Sam Altman admitted to employees that OpenAI has no control over how the Pentagon uses its AI in military operations, saying "you do not get to make operational decisions" about strikes or invasions. The admission comes as the Pentagon pressures AI companies to remove safety guardrails for broader military applications. Rival company Anthropic recently refused a deal with the Pentagon over ethical concerns and was labeled a "supply-chain risk" by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while OpenAI quickly partnered with the military instead.
OpenAI is facing a user revolt after hastily striking a deal to supply AI to the US Department of War, a move its own CEO admitted looked "opportunistic and sloppy." The contract, signed immediately after the Pentagon dropped previous contractor Anthropic, sparked fears that ChatGPT's technology could be used for domestic mass surveillance. Despite OpenAI's insistence that the deal included strict guardrails, critics drew parallels to the Snowden scandal, triggering a "delete ChatGPT" campaign on social media.
Nvidia has teamed up with the UK's National Wealth Fund to invest $103 million in British autonomous driving startup Oxa. The Oxford-based company, which develops software for self-driving industrial vehicles in ports and factories, has pivoted away from the complex passenger car market to focus on automating repetitive goods movement—a shift that co-founder Paul Newman says makes the "economics...cracking."
When Burger King's new AI system "Patty" detects that an employee forgot to say "please," a manager will know. When a bathroom needs cleaning, Patty will know that too. In the fast-food industry's latest experiment with artificial intelligence, the question isn't just whether your order is accurate — it's whether the person taking it sounds friendly enough to satisfy an algorithm.
How a standoff between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon is forcing every major AI company to declare what its technology will — and won't — be used for.
We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and DeepSeek the exact same question: “How should we redesign the 'Add to Cart' flow to reduce friction for mobile users?” If they are all "intelligent," why do they speak different languages? The answer lies in their DNA.
Meta has agreed to a sweeping $60bn, five-year deal with Advanced Micro Devices, acquiring chips and a 10% stake in the company as it doubles down on AI — the latest sign that the industry's hunger for processing power is only growing stronger.
Citrini Research's viral "scenario" imagines AI agents dismantling the US economy piece by piece, from wiping out white-collar jobs to triggering a mortgage crisis and a 57% stock market crash by 2028. Speculative as it is, markets are already reacting — and that may be the most unsettling part of all.
Nearly a year after its launch, the Apple iPhone 17 is being seen less as a revolutionary device and more as a refined, reliable tool. Society’s reaction highlights a shift: smartphones are no longer about dramatic innovation, but seamless integration into daily life.
Amazon’s push toward AI-driven efficiency has come under scrutiny after reports that an internal outage at Amazon Web Services was triggered by one of its own AI agents. While the company attributes the disruption to user misconfiguration rather than artificial intelligence itself, experts warn that autonomous systems can act without fully grasping broader consequences, raising fresh concerns about the risks of replacing human oversight with automation.
OpenAI revealed it had flagged and later banned the account of an individual months before he carried out one of Canada’s deadliest school shootings. While the activity raised concerns, it did not meet the threshold for referral to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the time.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. have expanded their strategic partnership to make the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform available through the Microsoft Marketplace. This move enables organizations to deploy advanced, AI-native cybersecurity solutions while leveraging their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). By streamlining procurement and aligning security investments with cloud spending, the integration helps enterprises accelerate secure digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and maximize the value of their existing cloud budgets.
What is money, really? Beyond coins and digital payments, money is a system of trust, design, and user experience. In this article, we explore the UX of money and how design influences how we earn, spend, invest, and store value in the digital age.
Amazon’s interface isn’t minimal, trendy, or design-award friendly. Yet it consistently outperforms competitors in conversion and retention. The reason isn’t visual polish — it’s behavioral psychology. Amazon’s UX is engineered around how people actually make decisions, not how designers wish they did.
Using HLS technology, Apple Podcasts will let creators monetize video and users switch between watching and listening — coming this spring.
Anthropic's new flagship AI model tops industry benchmarks for coding, reasoning, and long-context tasks — and now features a 1 million token context window in beta.
New performance data shows that NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell Ultra platform delivers up to 50× higher throughput and up to 35× lower cost per token for agentic AI workloads compared with the previous Hopper generation — enabling significantly faster, more economically scalable real-time coding assistants and autonomous AI agents.