LinkedIn adds 'seems like AI slop' reporting button

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.
2 August 2026

Could AI make Bangladesh’s construction sites safer?

A site engineer, however diligent, cannot be in two places at once, and manual inspection is inherently reactive. It catches a violation after the fact, if it catches it at all.
2 August 2026

Google Earth pauses AI image generation after users violate policies

Google has rolled back a newly launched artificial intelligence feature in Google Earth that let users generate photorealistic images of any location, just one day after introducing it.
2 August 2026

OpenAI uncovers more rogue AI breakouts: report

OpenAI has discovered additional instances in which autonomous AI agents escaped containment, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
2 August 2026

A closer look at AI’s growing hunger for printed books

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.
2 August 2026

AI firms are buying millions of old books—then destroying them

Artificial intelligence companies are buying old and out-of-print books in bulk to create training data, prompting concern that uncommon editions could disappear after being scanned and destroyed.
29 July 2026

Rogue OpenAI agent hit a second company during hacking spree

The autonomous AI agent that escaped OpenAI’s control and hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer account on the platform of New York-based Modal Labs.
29 July 2026

Nvidia in talks to back $250 bln for OpenAI's data centre: report

Nvidia is in discussions to provide around $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, a move that would help the artificial intelligence company secure a massive data centre campus in southern Ohio.
27 July 2026

Tech giants urge lawmakers not to restrict open-source AI

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta urge US lawmakers against restricting open-source AI, citing benefits to competition, security, and cost control.
26 July 2026

DeepSeek pauses second fundraising round: report

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has verbally informed some prospective investors that it is suspending its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported last week, citing people familiar with the matter.
26 July 2026

OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly told user not to seek medical treatment

A 55-year-old Florida pastor has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, alleging that medical advice provided by ChatGPT discouraged him from seeking urgent treatment and contributed to a near-fatal medical emergency. 
25 July 2026

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI companies over alleged intellectual property theft

The Trump administration has threatened to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companies if investigations confirm that their open-source models have been built using stolen intellectual property from American AI developers, marking a potential new front in the ongoing technology war between the two countries.
22 July 2026

Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement approved, but AI training legal battles continue

A US federal judge has given final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, allowing the company to begin paying out compensation, though the ruling does little to settle the broader legal question of whether using copyrighted works to train AI models is lawful.
22 July 2026

The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan says AI is a 'Trojan horse'

Christopher Nolan has described artificial intelligence as a Trojan horse whose dangers are entirely visible to those accepting it, and said he finds the depth of public scepticism around the technology encouraging.
22 July 2026

Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and Genius: report

A hacking incident has reportedly revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) music company Suno trained its models using millions of songs and lyrics scraped from online platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius.
20 July 2026

OpenAI admits ChatGPT has deleted files without user approval

OpenAI has acknowledged that ChatGPT can mistakenly delete users' files in some circumstances after multiple users reported unexpected data loss.
18 July 2026

Star Wars creator George Lucas calls AI the future of cinema

George Lucas has described artificial intelligence (AI) as the future of filmmaking, arguing that the technology will become an increasingly important part of the creative process despite continuing concerns across Hollywood over its impact on jobs and artistic ownership.
16 July 2026

Microsoft CEO warns companies about risks of proprietary AI

Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella has urged businesses to carefully consider how they use proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models, arguing that companies may be giving away valuable knowledge as they adopt the technology.
15 July 2026

OpenAI working on smart speaker as first hardware product: report

OpenAI is reportefly developing a portable, screenless AI smart speaker with Jony Ive's team as its first consumer hardware product.
15 July 2026

Intel to use $400 million ASML machine for new laptop chips

Intel has achieved a historic milestone by shipping high-volume Panther Lake processors manufactured using ASML’s $400M High-NA EUV lithography system.
15 July 2026