ChatGPT has quietly stopped writing like your favourite author

Ask ChatGPT for a chapter in the voice of Stephen King and it now says no. It offers instead to write something with “the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and small-town dread,” w [...]

China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says

For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start [...]

Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a [...]

The man who coined ‘agentic AI’ is betting it won’t take your job

Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your j [...]

AI writes half our code now. It still fails security tests 44% of the time.

AI can now write compilable code almost every time it tries. It still ships a security hole in nearly half of it, and that has not changed in a year. That is the headline finding of Veracode’s 2026 [...]

Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.

In November, Sam Altman wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI boss. He said it would be an embarrassment if it were not. This week, he said people do not want an AI boss at all. “Sh [...]

1,134 AI insiders just asked Washington for a way to slow AI down

More than a thousand of the people building the most powerful AI want a way to slow it down. On Tuesday, 1,134 employees of the leading AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to help bu [...]

The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15

In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A growing set of platforms now pays people $15 to $700 to license their likeness f [...]

Cursor cut its India price to $7, and its own AI models are why

Cursor has cut the price of AI coding in India to about $7 a month. The interesting part is how it can afford to. The startup launched Cursor Start on Monday, a ₹649 plan sold only in India, TechCru [...]