An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and reasoning about what it sees in real
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Meta is cutting its metaverse budget by up to 30%, and consumer platforms are ghost towns. But spatial computing has real enterprise traction. Here's what's actually happening in 2026.
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Ambient AI is growing 24.5% a year, faster than cloud computing or smartphones ever did, and it's already
The AI carbon footprint could nearly triple the electricity use of three major nations combined by 2030. But
The single biggest lever for cutting AI's energy footprint doesn't require new hardware: it's matching model size to
EU AI Act enforcement arrived in 2026 with fines up to €35m. AI governance platforms went from optional
Greater AI knowledge correlates with less trust in police facial recognition, not more, and the evidence explains why: a 40-fold error-rate disparity across demographic groups and at least eight wrongful arrests. Here's the honest evidence
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Self-hosted AI models now deliver 70-85% of frontier quality at zero marginal cost per query. Here's why running
Robots in education are already deployed in 206 real classrooms across 28 countries. Here is what actually works,
Extended reality (XR) is moving from gaming into classrooms and workplaces. Here's how to prepare for XR properly,
China now has 515 million users on generative AI, larger than the entire population of the EU, reached
Bryan Cranston shifted OpenAI's deepfake governance through union advocacy alone, no legislation or lawsuit required. New research shows why the stakes are higher than reputation: warnings don't stop deepfakes from changing what people believe, even
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The AI emissions paradox is real in both directions: data centres consume growing amounts of electricity, but the
The Louvre heist took just seven minutes, four thieves, a furniture lift, and one angle grinder. Here's the
The AI workplace divide doesn't run where most people think. New MIT research shows generative AI often helps
Explainable AI just went from theory to measurement: researchers can now dial up a single internal vector in
Generative AI in creative industries has already crossed its tipping point. Here are the licensing deals, lawsuits and real adoption numbers behind the shift in music, video and gaming.
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The AI regulatory landscape split in two in 2026: the EU pressed ahead with binding AI Act enforcement
88% of organisations now use AI, but only a fraction have a real AI governance framework — and
Six months after launching to viral acclaim, OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora 2 following deepfake scandals, copyright fights
AI workflow automation isn't just replacing tasks anymore, it's reconfiguring how work gets done entirely. McKinsey finds employees
RL environments have gone from research curiosity to the most fought-over infrastructure in AI, with Prime Intellect's $130 million raise the latest sign of how much money is chasing this layer.
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China's AI datacentre in Qinghai is already running at 3,579 petaflops on domestic chips alone, on track for
Albania's AI minister Diella just took a formal role awarding public tenders, the first cabinet-level AI appointment anywhere
AI phishing attacks jumped fourteenfold in a matter of weeks and haven't come back down. Here's what the
MIT's VaxSeer uses AI flu vaccine prediction to outperform WHO's own strain choices over the past decade. Here's
The Apertus AI model has passed a million downloads since launch. Here's what real hospital and government deployments reveal about the gap between open and closed AI.
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Small Small AI language models are quietly powering a shift from cloud to edge, running directly on phones
Bestseller lists are filling with AI doom narratives predicting extinction, while researchers warn the apocalyptic framing may crowd
Psychiatrists across the US, UK, and Australia are reporting a new pattern: patients with psychosis-like symptoms triggered or
Research shows politicians who claim damaging evidence is fake AI actually retain more voter support than those who
Google AI Overviews can cut click-through rates in half, and one study found top-ranked pages losing up to 79 percent of traffic. Here's the research on both sides, including Google's official rebuttal.
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Is AI really intelligent, or just pattern matching dressed up as thought? Evolutionary biologist David Krakauer calls it
The AI water footprint rivals its carbon footprint in scale, with U.S. data centres alone consuming over 163
AI inflation forecasting is moving from experiment to practice at the ECB, Czech National Bank, and Federal Reserve.
AI in local government is already cutting waste collection costs, speeding up Brisbane's traffic by 20 percent, and
One in three Harvard students now use AI instead of Google for research, and 92% of UK undergrads used AI in their academic work in 2025. Stuart Kerr examines what the shift means for learning
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AI insurance premiums are already being calculated before you apply, using medical histories, ZIP codes, and driving data.
AI model collapse is the quieter risk lurking behind every "endlessly improving" AI narrative. When models train on
The AI food supply chain already influences which crops get harvested, how they're shipped, and what recipes reach
AI therapy chatbots reduce depression symptoms, but Stanford research finds significant safety gaps, including failures to respond appropriately
AI evidence in court is already causing real problems, from hallucinated case citations to judges weighing whether AI-generated reconstructions can be cross-examined. Here's how the law is scrambling to catch up.
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AI diplomacy is now a lever of national power: from China's Digital Silk Road to the US export-control
Google's AI nuclear power bet has moved from paper to concrete. Kairos Power broke ground on the Hermes
Gemini in Google Docs has added 11 new languages, from Mandarin to Norwegian, expanding its Help Me Write,
Gemini in Google Workspace now spans Docs, Slides, and video with Google Vids and Veo 3. Here's what
87% of game developers now use AI agents in their workflow, per a new Google Cloud and Harris Poll survey. Here's how generative AI in game development is reshaping everything from NPC dialogue to who
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Nearly one third of patients now use generative AI to find doctors, filtering by location, specialty, and insurance
The Oracle Google Cloud Gemini partnership brings Gemini 2.5 and Google's full model range to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Quora AI Overviews citations now top Google's AI-generated search summaries, per new Semrush research covering 26,000 URLs. Here's
AI displacing jobs now worries 54 percent of Americans, new polling shows. See what the data actually says
