Rightmove’s share price has fallen by more than a quarter after the UK’s biggest property portal told investors it will slow near-term profit growth in order to fund a major new programme of artificial intelligence investment.
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AI Assistants Can Write Your Prompts And Do Your Shopping For You
Two new launches from Hero and Google show how everyday digital tasks are moving towards full automation, with prompt writing and online shopping now handled largely by AI rather than users.
Read MoreOpenAI Claims It Detects “AI Scheming”
OpenAI says it has developed new tools to uncover and limit deceptive “AI Scheming” behaviour in its most advanced AI models, before the risks become real.
Read More300,000 + Grok Chats Exposed Online
How the Grok Leak Happened The exposure of Grok transcripts was first reported by Forbes, which identified more than 370,000 indexed conversations, and later confirmed by the BBC, which counted nearly 300,000 visible through Google Search. The numbers differ slightly depending on how the search engine indexes the material, but […]
Read MoreSpotify AI ‘Band’ Sparks Labelling Debate
In this Tech Insight, we look at how the sudden rise of a (possibly AI-generated) band on Spotify has reignited the debate over whether music streaming platforms should clearly label artificially created songs.
Read MoreNew High-Speed Hybrid AI Law Firm
A new AI-powered legal startup backed by Sequoia Capital is rewriting how contracts are reviewed, by building a law firm around the software itself.
Read MoreStudy Finds AI Dulls Brain Activity
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that using generative AI tools like ChatGPT can significantly reduce brain activity during writing tasks, and may impair users’ ability to retain information and think critically.
Read MoreProve You’re Human – Have Your Eyes Scanned
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s identity startup ‘World’ has begun its rollout in the United States, introducing 20,000 biometric devices known as Orbs that scan users’ irises to confirm they are human.
Read MoreAI Isn’t Slashing Jobs or Wages (Yet)
Despite the whirlwind of hype, new research suggests that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have, so far, made barely a ripple in the labour market, leaving jobs and wages largely untouched.
Read MoreMicrosoft and Amazon Agentic Agents
Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot assistant into a fully agentic AI tool that can browse the web, complete real-world tasks, and remember personal details — marking a major leap in the AI arms race.
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