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Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.

Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries — would appear to be more of the same.

Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."

<p>Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’</p><p>A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”.</p><p>The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers

Anthropic is rolling out Claude for Teachers, a free offering for verified K-12 educators at US schools. The article Anthropic opens Claude for Teachers with a promise not to train models on student data appeared first on The Decoder .

The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.

DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round appeared first on The Decoder .

Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.

Google is adding AI image generation to Search's AI Overviews. When no matching image exists on the web, the new Nano Banana 2 Lite model generates one from the search query. The rollout starts in the coming weeks. The article Google Search now generates AI images when it can't find what you're looking for on the web appeared first on The Decoder .

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that connects hospital pharmacy and compliance data across its product suite. Prism Assistant for ControlCheck has reached general availability and operates across 20 health systems, according to AWS vendor statements. Meanwhile, a multi-product agent for 340B Group Purchasing Organisation (GPO) compliance remains […] The post AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance appeared first on AI News .

Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The "Talk to Spotify" feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify's mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the […]

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.

New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

<p>Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</a> became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday.</p><p>Governor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kathy-hochul">Kathy Hochul</a> issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products.</

<p><strong>PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2; Marimittu Games<br></strong>A soft puzzle game makes a sharp point about the over-optimised future ahead</p><p>In the far future, on a planet that is not Earth, AI is in charge. This entity is no Skynet-esque killer robot but a machine that cares for humanity. Manifesting most visibly as cute droids, the technology is pervasive – embedded in everything from the design of the sleek architecture to the gorgeous, mostly sunny

<p>PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese says the federal government

OpenAI has re-enabled ChatGPT on WhatsApp, but only in the European Economic Area, covering the 27 EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway. The article ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe after EU forces Meta to open the door to rival AI bots appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for frontier models and could coordinate a slowdown in AI development if needed. Startups and research models would be exempt. The article Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now appeared first on The

Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round. The article PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another winner appeared first on The Decoder .

A new Anthropic study maps hundreds of value concepts derived from thousands of individual terms onto four core dimensions. It reveals systematic differences across Claude models and languages, but also raises methodological questions. Anthropic has published a study examining which values Claude expresses in conversations and how those values shift depending on the model and language used. […] The article Claude responds with more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, showing how language

<p>A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth</p><p>Marc Isaacs’ new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn’t make friends with. It is an odd, shallow piece of work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-aware docudrama hybrid. Isaacs is, or rather pretends to be, licensing the vivid characters from his previous, acclaimed documentaries to a fi

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

<p>Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work</p><ul><li><p><a href="http://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/14/australia-news-live-nt-police-peter-falconio-anthony-albanese-ai-artificial-intelligence-copyright-antisemitism-royal-commission-bondi-universities-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.

In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for everyday users, not developers. Instead of rigid formulas, it suggests four optional building blocks: goal, context, format, and constraints. The core advice is simple: describe the result you want, not the steps to get there. It's the first time OpenAI covers both Chat and Codex in a single framework. The article OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result appeared first on The Decoder .

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and inefficient" and wants to build AI agents that learn continuously from their environment. The article Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own appeared first on The Decoder .

A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.

More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action in a coordinated statement. The AI transformation could surpass the Industrial Revolution but unfold in a fraction of the time. The paper doesn't propose concrete measures, and studies so far have found no significant AI-driven effects on the labor market. The article Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's e

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

<p>The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace.</p><p>The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents.</p><p>Could that change this Wednesday when the prime minister delivers a landmark speech addressing the government’s approach to the technology?</p><p>Chief political corr

<p>Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese will describe the progress of AI as an

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, all while learning from customer interactions. Nadella wants companies to control their own learning infrastructure. Microsoft, of course, sells exactly that. The article Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data appeared first