A new study from the MIT Media Lab has raised concerns about the long-term impact of relying on artificial intelligence tools for fact-checking and news verification, finding that frequent use of AI assistants may reduce users’ ability to independently identify misinformation.
The open-access...
Apple has unveiled the next generation of Apple Intelligence and introduced Siri AI, a significantly enhanced version of its virtual assistant, as part of a broad software update announced during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
The updates, which will be rolled out across iPhone, iPad, ...
Two numbers, published weeks apart in early 2026, frame the whole story. The first: India is now the single largest market for AI hiring on the planet, with a global-capability-centre workforce of 2.36 million and the world’s second-deepest bench of AI researchers, behind only the United State...
Carbon Cognition
The day the thinking machine met the living planet — and discovered it had a footprint
Every answer you ask an AI for is paid in watts, water, and weather. On the one day of the year the whole world stops to look at the Earth, it’s worth asking: what does it cost the p...
Artificial intelligence has the potential to significantly improve radiation protection and patient safety across medical imaging and cancer treatment applications, but its safe deployment will require strong human oversight, robust validation processes, and effective regulatory frameworks, accordin...
Anthropic did a strange thing on Monday: it filed a secret document and then told everyone about it.
The company confirmed in a public blog post that it had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the first formal step towa...
AI safety and research company Anthropic has announced a new partnership with the Gates Foundation, committing $200 million over the next four years to support initiatives in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. The commitment includes grant funding, Claude AI usage credit...
Artificial intelligence and other strategic technologies are reshaping global investment, concentrating capital in fewer sectors and fewer countries while raising the risk that many developing economies are left behind.
That warning framed the opening of UN Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD)&nb...
A new policy brief titled “Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis” has raised concerns that rapid, unregulated adoption of artificial intelligence in advertising is amplifying risks across the global digital ecosystem.
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OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-5.5, positioning it as its most capable and intuitive model to date and a major step toward redefining how users complete complex tasks on computers.
The new model is designed to handle multi-step, ambiguous workflows with minimal guidance, marking a shift to...
Airbus Defence and Space has been selected as a technical partner in the Coffee Canopy Partnership. This groundbreaking initiative, led by JDE Peet’s, one of the global leading coffee companies (owning brands like L’Or, Senseo, Tassimo, Jacobs, Douwe Egberts...), aims to create the wor...
Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Anthropic by the company’s Long-Term Benefit Trust, marking a significant addition of healthcare and life sciences expertise to the AI firm’s leadership.
A physician-scientist by training, Narasimhan brings...
The Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay has approved a resolution establishing an institutional policy for the use of artificial intelligence systems within the judiciary.
The regulation defines criteria for their application in data processing, information management, and assisted deci...
Visa unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new solution that makes it easier for businesses to connect to and participate in AI-powered commerce. Intelligent Commerce Connect acts as a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic ‘on ramp’ to agentic commerce for agent builders, mercha...
PEDIGREE, the leading brand in dog food, was revealed to be responsible for a mysterious campaign of a new artificial intelligence that circulated on social networks and on the streets of São Paulo. After this mystery phase, the initiative presents Melhoramigo.ai, a platform created to facili...
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and increasingly AI-driven, the gap between attacker speed and traditional defence mechanisms is widening rapidly. What once took weeks or months can now unfold in hours, as threat actors leverage artificial intelligence to scale and automate attacks. This sh...
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Astral, a move aimed at enhancing its developer-focused capabilities and accelerating the evolution of its Codex platform.
Astral is known for building widely adopted open-source Python tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, which are used by millions of developers gl...
Saab announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Canadian AI company Cohere on advanced AI collaboration.
The MOU establishes a framework for collaboration on artificial intelligence technologies in support of GlobalEye. The agreement is directly connected to the GlobalEye opp...
