Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of nation [...]

Google AI Mode is getting a bigger AI brain from Gemini

Google AI Mode now includes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search, while Google Search has added an AI phone-calling assistant. [...]

Netflix uses generative AI VFX in a show for the first time, as CEO says ‘the cost just wouldn’t have been feasible for a show on that budget’

Netflix confirms it used AI to generate video effects in its latest sci-fi epic, and that might be a good thing for smaller budget productions. [...]

ChatGPT Agent shows that there’s a whole new world of AI security threats on the way we need to worry about

New AI innovations are welcome, but they come with new security risks we can't even conceive of right now. [...]

Xi Jinping warns against China's overinvestment in EVs and AI

Chinese President Xi Jinping has bluntly questioned a nationwide rush of investment into the AI and EV industries. As deflation anxiety grows and Trump’s trade war with China ramps up, the world’s [...]

South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung El [...]

Snap is spinning off its AR glasses into a separate business

Snap’s augmented reality glasses business will now be its own entity, with the company establishing Specs Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary. It will enable Snap to more easily secure investors and p [...]

Sick of seeing AI images everywhere online? DuckDuckGo will let you filter out the slop from your search results

Popular privacy-first search engine DuckDuckGo is adding a filter to remove AI-generated images from your search results. [...]

OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

The artificial intelligence company plans to add certifications and a jobs platform to help companies find workers "actually fluent in AI." [...]