Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, while its only UK operation remains tightly restricted to around 100 deliveries a day, highlighting how quickly autonomous delivery can scale when technology, regulation and public acceptance move at different speeds.
Read More UK police are beginning to use artificial intelligence to decide where non-emergency 101 calls should go before they reach a human operator, with a £1.4 million system designed to cut waiting times, reduce wasted police time and redirect millions of misdirected calls more efficiently.
Read More Comcast has begun turning compatible Xfinity home routers into camera-free motion detectors, showing how WiFi infrastructure can now do far more than connect devices while raising important questions about privacy, data use and intelligent buildings.
Read MoreAnthropic is preparing to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and attach signed provenance records to supported files worldwide, responding to new EU rules intended to make synthetic content easier to identify.
Read More Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated surveillance to detect.
Read More A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy.
Read More Microsoft will begin making passkeys the default authentication method in Microsoft Entra ID from 1 September 2026, marking a major change in how organisations protect user accounts as AI-powered phishing and identity attacks continue to grow.
Read More A major UK study has found that some teenage boys are developing romantic and emotionally intimate relationships with AI chatbots, prompting growing concern among researchers, parents and regulators about how these increasingly human-like systems may be shaping young people’s understanding of relationships.
Read More Google is introducing new labels that tell users when advertisements have been created or edited using generative artificial intelligence, marking an important step towards greater transparency as AI-generated marketing becomes increasingly realistic and more difficult to distinguish from traditional advertising.
Read More Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial broadband services later this year, marking the point at which its long-awaited satellite internet network moves from development into operation and giving businesses, governments and consumers the prospect of meaningful competition to SpaceX’s Starlink. Reaching The Starting Line […]
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