AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons

AI did not make buyers easier to reach. It made everyone cheaper to interrupt. A modern AI sales agent can research a company, identify a plausible buying signal, compose a personalised email, schedul [...]

OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms

The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles whe [...]

AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitti [...]

Substack adds AI detection to fight ‘Claudefishing’

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detecto [...]

Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cogniti [...]

To prove the anti-AI Pope’s words were human, his camp used AI

To defend an anti-AI Pope from claims a machine helped write his words, his camp reached for an unlikely tool: AI. An Australian firm has certified Pope Leo XIV’s writings as human-made, using a sui [...]

Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London

Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Tuesday to launch six products at once, its broadest hardware refresh in years. The lineup includes the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the first time Samsung [...]

Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools w [...]

The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security

The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme [...]