<p>The US motor company found that the hundreds of AI cameras being used for design and manufacturing checks were prone to pitfalls</p><p><strong>Name:</strong> “Greybeards.”</p><p><strong>Age:</strong> There’s a clue in the name.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/30/ai-backfired-so-ford-had-to-rehire-humans-greybeard-engineers">Continue reading...</a>
San Francisco's AI boom is driving up the cost of living so fast that even couples earning $365,000 a year can't find an affordable apartment. Median rent sits at $3,827, and homes cost $1.7 million on average. The expected IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic could make things even worse for those not profiting from the AI boom. The article San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000 appeared first on The Decoder .
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.
<p>The markets are souring on artificial intelligence, but is this the bubble being burst? Meanwhile, California proposes a tax on billionaires</p><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after fending off sunburns at the beach. Today, we’re discussing a rocky week for the AI industry’s finances and how California’s proposed billionaire’s tax is changing the political posture of the state’s governor.</p><p><a href="https://www.thegu
Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. But the technology is still a political minefield, and Europe is taking a very different approach. The article US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line appeared first on The Decoder .
Meta reportedly had hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send suicide, sex, and drug-related prompts to chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI. In a single testing round, more than 45,000 prompts were sent. The companies being tested had no idea. The article Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts appeared first on The Decoder .
For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.
Taiwanese authorities have raided the offices of Super Micro Computer and several local partner companies. The article Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China appeared first on The Decoder .
Deepseek's new DSpark framework boosts per-user response speed by 60 to 85 percent. A small model proposes token candidates that the larger model checks in batches, squeezing more performance out of fewer chips. That could further reduce China's dependence on US high-end hardware. The article Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?</p><p>In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one.</p><p>Gabriel was a cheerfu
Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.
Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up sharply. The company is also exploring alternatives like OpenAI. The article Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in appeared first on The Decoder .
But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another. The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on
TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.
Meta is restricting its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data. The article Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data appeared first on The Decoder .
An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced by AI agents. "Our model is toast," one consultant summed up the message. McKinsey and BCG are already searching for alternative revenue models. The article Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour appeared first on The Decoder .
The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. The article The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school appeared first on The Decoder .
HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires connecting access protocols, contextual […] The post HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Fro
<p>Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, too</p><p>Earlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes – that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club – jointly released a <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/4523810/five-eyes-cyber-security-agencies-statement/">statement</a> warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ab
With AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.
Security researchers at Mozilla's 0DIN platform have shown how a single compromised GitHub repo can take over a developer's machine the moment an AI coding tool like Claude Code runs its setup. The catch: the malicious code only loads at runtime via a DNS query, invisible in the repo, to scanners, and to the AI agent itself. The article Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full control appeared first on The Decoder .
The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches begin on Monday. They include an upgraded Match Chat assistant and a new feature called Key Moments. The features will […] The post Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage appeared first on AI News .
Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain professional connections, presenting both opportunities and challenges in authentic relationship-building. Professional networking now relies on a growing ecosystem of AI-powered […] The post Advances in Na
Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it helps catch routine flaws before they reach production. The pressure has grown. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that […] The post Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps appeared first on AI News .
Samsung and SK Hynix, backed by the South Korean government, are pouring $590 billion into new chip factories and packaging centers as AI data center demand surges. According to Jefferies, memory prices could climb to 50 percent per quarter through 2027. The two companies control nearly 80 percent of the global HBM market. The article Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring appeared first on The Decoder .
xFusion presented scalable enterprise AI computing models at ISC 2026, transitioning hardware from edge devices to data centres. Enterprise technology buyers attending the Hamburg exhibition sought practical production frameworks. Hardware selection processes regularly fail to account for physical operating limits. Relying on public APIs exposes proprietary commercial data. xFusion engineers responded with a four-tier hardware […] The post xFusion scales enterprise AI from edge workstations to l
Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.
New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Both announcements were made at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where Scam.ai was featured at Qualcomm’s booth as […] The post Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 appeared first on AI News .
<p>In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global</p><p>When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time because of what happened in 1993, when she was instrumental in suing Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on behalf of residents of the town of Hinkley
<p>Value of some chip manufacturers have tripled, or more, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher</p><p>Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis.</p><p>Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this y
<p>Tech and AI stocks now make up as much as 12% of most balanced superannuation funds, experts say</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>Artificial intelligence and technology stocks have become a driving force on Wall Street and, unbeknowns
<p>ChatGPT relieves me of my discomfort, but in doing so it robs me of contemplation, of the holy ground between question and answer</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/making-sense-of-it">Making sense of it</a> is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life</p></li></ul><p>As a person of faith raised in a religious household, I have a fairly clear picture of what prayer means to me. Prayer is the practice by which I draw close
Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.
Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his ChatGPT logs. Prosecutors said that […]
