Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional
Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings li…

China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one
China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data incl…

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking
Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with Byte…

AI bots are a hit across the hotel biz, and if they feel creepy, you’re not alone: Study

Researchers have found that AI-powered hotel booking chatbots are unsettling enough to make users abandon their bookings.

I built an offline Grammarly alternative and turned it into a Mac app without any coding

I used Claude to build myself a fully offline, and locally processed alternative to Grammarly. The first build took me less than 30 seconds and I didn’t even have to see or write a line of code.

Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up

Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their busi…

From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone
From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone

Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head o…

Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate

Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in R…

The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding
The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding

The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months…

McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches
McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches

McKinsey launched a free AI practice tool in April that gives candidates unlimited attempts at the quantitative case study they will face in their interview. The tool is available globally to applicants for entry-level business analyst and associate ro…