The Walt Disney Company will pay$10 million to settle allegations that it breached children's privacy laws by mislabelling videos aimed at young audiences on YouTube, allowing personal data to be collected without parental consent...
The Reserve Bank of Australia has developed and is testing an in-house, AI-powered chatbot to assist its staff with research and analysis. NamedRBAPubChat, the tool is trained on the central bank's knowledge base of nearly 20,000 ...
A new partnership between the federal government and New Mexico's state and local businesses aims to establish the state as a leader in quantum computing. The initiative will see the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARP...
A significant outage has struck ChatGPT, leaving many users unable to receive responses from the popular AI chatbot. Instead of generating answers, the service failed to react to prompts, causing widespread frustration, particular...
A United States federal judge has ruled against a forced breakup of Google's search business, instead opting for a series of behavioural changes to curb anticompetitive behaviour. The ruling, from US District Court Judge Amit P. M...
The US General Services Administration (GSA) has agreed on a significant deal with Microsoft to provide federal agencies with discounted access to its AI and cloud tools suite. Instead of managing separate contracts, the governmen...
In its latest threat intelligence report, Anthropic has revealed that its AI tool Claude has been purposefully weaponised by hackers, offering a disturbing glimpse into how quickly AI is shifting the cyber threat landscape. In one...
In partnership with the Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford University has received a Pound 118 million grant to launch CoI-AI, Correlates of Immunity-AI, a five-year vaccine research programme. Led by Professors Sir Andrew Po...
UCLA engineers have developed a wearable brain-computer interface that utilises AI to interpret intent, allowing for the control of robotic arms and computer cursors. The non-invasive system uses electroencephalography (EEG) to de...
An upcoming upgrade for Google Home devices is set to bring a new AI assistant, Gemini, to the smart home ecosystem. A recent post by the Made by Google account on X revealed that more details will be announced on 1 October. The m...
WhatsApp has disclosed a hacking attempt that combined flaws in its app with a vulnerability in Apple's operating system. The company has since fixed the issues. The exploit, tracked as CVE-2025-55177 in WhatsApp and CVE-2025-4330...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has confirmed that the company cut 4,000 customer support positions in 2025 after deploying its Agentforce AI agents. Support staff numbers fell from 9,000 to roughly 5,000. Agentforce AI now conducts a...