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<p>A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about it</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/01/australia-ai-copyright-laws-creatives-sound-alarm-albanese-government-datacentres">Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’</a></p></li></ul><p>

Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new unit called "Frontier Company" that puts 6,000 engineers directly at enterprise customers. The goal is to integrate AI into core processes with measurable ROI, not more experimentation. Microsoft is positioning itself as a platform-neutral alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic, which push their own models through their own deployment companies. The article Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise c

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.

Anthropic is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip. The project is still early, but Anthropic has already hired chip engineers. After OpenAI's "Jalapeño," yet another major AI company is pushing into chip development to cut infrastructure costs. The article Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examples. Guidelines can even hold the models back because they're "more imaginative" than what they're given. Instead of strict rules, Anthropic now steers through context. The article Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt" appeared first on The Decoder .

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientists to converse directly with digital agents using natural language to execute end-to-end research workflows. This system connects natively to […] The post NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science appeared first on AI News .

Nvidia is increasingly acting like a central bank for AI startups, actively shaping the compute market. The article Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business appeared first on The Decoder .

The Remote Labor Index measures how often AI agents complete paid freelance projects at professional quality. In eight months, the top automation rate has more than quadrupled. The article AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago appeared first on The Decoder .

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.

OpenAI is reportedly offering the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company. What the government would give in return, if anything, is still unclear. The move shows how closely the AI company wants to tie itself to Washington. The article OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jul/02/uk-cost-of-living-squeeze-diesel-record-fall-mortage-rates-stock-markets-us-jobs-report-live-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies atte

<p>They’re making an art of stealing intellectual property</p><ul><li><p><strong>See more of </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-katauskas"><strong>Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here</strong></a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/02/are-ai-companies-getting-away-with-crime">Continue reading...</a>

<p>AI-generated overview found to gloss over allegations of sexual harassment and describes hotel being sued over hygiene as ‘spotless’</p><p>A hotel being sued for mass food poisonings was described as “spotless” and a resort where guests complained of sexual harassment by staff was praised for “friendly” service by an AI intended to summarise millions of Tripadvisor reviews.</p><p>The overviews of customer feedback downplayed serious complaints, ranging from the stench of mould to a lack of ma

SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI smartphone that's supposedly thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI tech. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with its own operating system. Musk wants to build an "everything app" modeled after WeChat. The article SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology appeared first on The Decoder .

Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.

Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

<p>Readers respond to an article about Erin Brockovich’s battle against datacentres and voice their fears for the environment </p><p>What are the benefits obtained from AI’s massive use of electricity and water (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres">‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacent

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why isn't the company putting all that capacity to work on its own models? The article Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers appeared first on The Decoder .

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer insight. Leaders are replacing static customer interaction patterns with data pipelines capable of modifying the user environment during a live session. Static layouts and broad segmentation rules fail to satisfy modern conversion targets. Deployments demonstrate that traditional demographic categorisation generates insufficient […] The post Deploying retail AI to scale personal

Meta's FAIR AI team uses Brain2Qwerty v2 to translate brain activity into typed sentences, with no implants or surgery required. The system reads magnetic signals outside the skull and reconstructs what a person is typing. Clinical use for paralyzed patients is still a long way off, but accuracy keeps improving with every additional recording. AI agents that wrote their own code helped with the optimization. The article Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implan

A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm...

<p>Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair</p><p>A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize.</p><p>Jamir Nazir’s story <a href="https://granta.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove/">The Serpent in the Grove</a> went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics on X and

Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered by a revamped Alexa last fall, and now it's finally Google's turn. […]

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

Anthropic is removing a hidden monitoring feature from its programming tool, Claude Code, after it sparked outrage on social media. The article Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users appeared first on The Decoder .

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But the model chews through about 40 percent more tokens per task than its predecessor, nearly doubling real costs despite identical list prices. Anthropic's hidden price hikes are becoming a pattern. The article Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates appeared first on The Decoder .

Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10 million AI-powered robots deployed across 18 industries by 2040, backed by public funding of up to one trillion yen, or roughly US$6.1 billion, over five years. The headline figure […] The post Japan’s answer to its worker shortage: An AI model for 10 million robots appeared first on AI News .

An OpenAI benchmark paper suggests that the Pro tier of GPT-5.6 could ship in three variants. That would be the first major change to ChatGPT Pro's structure since the plan launched. The article OpenAI's genomics paper accidentally reveals a Pro lineup it hasn't announced yet appeared first on The Decoder .

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for AI agents that can act without direct human instruction. Speaking at the European Central Bank Forum on central banking […] The post Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance appeared first on AI News .

<p>Panel proses shared framework for responsible AI development as adoption grows unevenly across world</p><p>A new United Nations report warns that the development of artificial intelligence may exacerbate global inequality and proposes a shared framework for how to responsibly develop AI, as adoption and investment into the technology accelerates unevenly across the world.</p><p>“Access to AI tools alone does not produce equal benefit,” the report states. “Countries that rely on foreign models

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the temporary suspension of Anthropic’s highest-capability systems. Government officials enacted […] The post Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored appeared first on AI News .