The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10
The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10

Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central to his preparation and execution throughout the five-week trial. Lanier told Business Insid…

Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price

Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year history. Built on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform at Skoda’s home plant in Mladá Boleslav, the Peaq stretches nearly 4.9…

Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026
Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026

Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and whether the AI industry can build. A new report from Data Center Watch, a tracker maintained by AI research firm 10a Labs, …

Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.

Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 on coding benchmarks by double-digit margins, and gave paying subscribers access to Mythos-…

GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too

General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief product officer says GM’s autonomous vehicles will eventually be capable of operating as robotaxis anyway. Sterling Anderso…

Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand

Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Senate investigation exposed the scale of the problem. The episodes, spread across more than 3,000 shows, used AI-generated a…

NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day
NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day

NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally. The rollout follows a pilot across 90 NHS organisations in which 30,000 workers used …

Amazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI
Amazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott…

KPMG pulled its AI report after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about them were made up
KPMG pulled its AI report after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about them were made up

KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI“ after multiple organisations said the claims it made about their AI usage were either untrue or misleading. UBS, the UK’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, …

A Tesla on Autopilot swerved into someone’s garage door in Washington. Police are investigating.
A Tesla on Autopilot swerved into someone’s garage door in Washington. Police are investigating.

A Tesla driver in Redmond, Washington, claims the car’s self-driving mode malfunctioned before it swerved into a residential garage door on Monday. The car smashed the door open and ended up lodged inside the garage. Police responded around 11 AM and a…