Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs
Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs

The AI story has mostly been told through chips, data centres, and the companies building the models. It is now being told through the shampoo aisle. The world’s largest makers of everyday goods, the businesses behind the bottles and packets in most ki…

The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it
The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it

The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerating faster than any government’s ability to understan…

How Claude helped my 65-year-old dad finally ditch his handwritten ledgers

My dad has run his small business on handwritten ledgers for years. Here’s how I used Claude to finally get him off paper and into Excel, no coding or tech skills required.

Sherpa.ai raises $18M to support data-sovereign AI development

Sherpa.ai, a company specialisingin artificial intelligence for data privacy and security, has raised $18million in a funding round to accelerate the development of its AI platform forenterprises and …

AI’s energy tax was already concerning. Research says AI agents are over hundred times worse

A KAIST study reveals AI agents consume dramatically more energy than conventional AI, highlighting a growing challenge for data centers and future AI infrastructure.

AI agent reportedly carried out an entire ransomware attack on its own

Security researchers say an autonomous AI agent carried out a complete ransomware attack, adapting to failures and executing the intrusion with minimal human intervention.

Australian government warns doctors over AI scribing tools as privacy and safety concerns grow

Australia is reviewing AI medical scribes as regulators raise concerns over patient privacy, consent, data security, and the lack of oversight in clinical settings.

US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit
US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering…

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future
Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue growth, shortening product development cycles and impro…

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite
ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services tak…