US agencies have accused six Chinese AI firms of industrial scale distillation, extracting data from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024 alone.

Google is investing 13 billion euros in Finland over two years, including a 22 year nuclear power deal to keep its new AI data centres running properly.

French AI lab Mistral has closed a Samsung led €3 billion Series D at a valuation above €21 billion, the largest tech round in European history.

Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI all shipped major new AI models within days of each other this week, and it's already being called model fatigue.

Apple's foldable iPhone finally lands today, tipped as the iPhone Ultra, with a crease-fighting hinge and a price steep enough to make your eyes water.

Anthropic, Google and Meta launched major new AI models within a day of each other this week, led by Claude Fable 5.1 and Gemini's cybersecurity specialist.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol pricing over 20 percent for the second time in a month, and previewed an Ultrafast mode running 14 times faster than standard speed.

Brisbane City Council just did something federal privacy law still cannot manage: actually banning smart glasses from filming people without asking first. From the coming weeks, none of the council's 21 public pools will allow camera-enabled devices, including smart glasses, phones and action cameras, to record anyone who has not agreed to it. Lifeguards get the power to boot anyone caught filming without permission, no warning required. The trigger is the rise of cheap AI sm

Canberra has knocked back a smart glasses ban, leaving pools, gyms and shops to set their own rules on covert filming as new privacy reforms take shape.

DeepSeek went from "cheap AI model that spooked Silicon Valley" to "company about to be worth $74 billion" in under a year, and it's not slowing down. The Chinese AI lab is closing in on a fresh $8 billion funding round that would value it at roughly $74 billion. That's a serious jump from the $52 billion valuation it landed in June, when it raised over $7 billion in its first ever external round, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally chipping in around $3 billion of that him

Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event lands 9 September 2026, tipped to reveal the iPhone 18 Pro line and Apple's first ever foldable iPhone.

OpenAI confirmed its new Astra model is the first to cross its Preparedness Framework's critical cyber threshold, and it's shipping with tight limits.

Meta is on trial as 29 US states allege Instagram and Facebook were deliberately designed to hook children, with damages sought as high as $1.4 trillion.

ChatGPT for Teens is now live, bringing automatic age detection, tighter content limits and new parental controls for 13 to 17 year old ChatGPT users.

Leaked macOS code reveals Apple's camera equipped AirPods, quickly nicknamed pervert pods online, though they reportedly cannot record photos or video.

Anthropic's preliminary Q2 2026 revenue topped $11.5 billion, its first ever profit, as the AI firm eyes an IPO that could beat rival OpenAI to market.

ChatGPT ads are rolling out across the EU, EEA and Switzerland this month for Free and Go users, but ad targeting stays non-personalised unless you opt in.

Mirage's new AI news channel streams on X 24/7 with synthetic anchors reading Reuters stories and zero humans on screen. What it means for journalism.

Google's Pixel 11 launch puts Gemini AI into everything, even powering Apple's newly rebuilt Siri, plus what the launch means for pricing and features.

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a free 30 billion parameter open source AI model that runs on a single laptop GPU, no cloud subscription or waitlist required.