Elon Musk's AI tool, Grok AI, generated 3m sexualized images, including 23,000 potentially depicting children, sparking international outrage. Center for Countering Digital Hate labeled it an "industrial-scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material."
Government consultation on banning social media for under-16s should also consider access to generative AI for young people. AI-driven technologies, including chatbots simulating friendship, raise urgent questions about safeguarding young minds online.
Liza Minnelli surprises fans with first new music in 13 years, adding vocals to an AI-created deep house track 'Kids, Wait Til You Hear This'. The track features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backing, heralding 'new tools in service of expression'.
In 2029 LA, Chris Pratt stars as a cop fighting RoboJustice in a futuristic thriller directed by Timur Bekmambetov. AI-driven justice system puts Pratt's character on trial, raising questions about the power of AI in society.
PhD candidate Sepehr Saryazdi, 24, charged with planning terrorist act at Gold Coast event. Allegedly aimed to replace government with 'cybernetics' powered by artificial intelligence.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory enhances AI agents by capturing and surfacing experience-level knowledge through episodic memory. This helps agents adapt, learn from past experiences, and improve over time, leading to significant enhancements in task success rates.
Jamie Dimon warns of potential civil unrest due to rapid AI advancements, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang believes tech will create more jobs than it destroys. Dimon emphasizes the need for government and business support to help displaced workers adapt to the changing landscape.
AI's rapid expansion is reshaping the global economy, creating jobs across industries from energy to healthcare. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sees AI as a five-layer cake driving job creation and economic benefit, emphasizing the importance of purpose-driven work in the AI era.
MIT researchers find machine-learning models fail when applied to new data, raising concerns about reliability and potential biases. Models trained in one setting may perform poorly in another, highlighting the need for rigorous testing and addressing spurious correlations in various fields.
ChatGPT boasts 800 million weekly users in 2025. People are forming emotional connections with chatbots for companionship and mental health support.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is a hyperactive, techno anime adaptation of a Japanese folk tale with emojis exploding all over the screen. The film follows Iroha, a talented musician living in a virtual reality world, TikTok-ified with stickers and high-energy visuals.
Tech titans reaped big rewards after aligning with Trump, gaining billions in funding and lucrative deals. US datacenter boom and Australia's social media ban effects also discussed in TechScape.
Economists fear AI investment bubble and South China Sea tensions amid Trump's attacks on Federal Reserve's independence. Commonwealth Bank's chief economist warns of new economic era with different rules.
Brendan Simms of Cambridge University explores global spheres of influence. Labour MPs urge Starmer to ban under-16s from social media.
State mental health services are lacking, prompting individuals like Viola di Grado to turn to AI therapists for help in a society unsure of the boundaries of digital therapy. The intimacy of AI therapy falls between real psychotherapy and casual advice sharing, sparking a new kind of conversation.