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A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...

Google’s NotebookLM arrived as a purpose-built, notebook-style research assistant that asks a deceptively simple premise: give the AI the documents you care about and let it answer questions, summarize, and generate study materials that are explicitly grounded in those sources. What makes...

Microsoft has quietly folded OpenAI’s Sora video model into the Bing mobile experience, giving anyone with the Bing app on iOS or Android the ability to generate short, AI-crafted videos for free — a move that broadens access to cutting‑edge text‑to‑video technology while amplifying questions...

Microsoft’s Copilot is set to draw on Harvard Medical School’s consumer-facing content, a move Reuters reported on October 8, 2025 that companies and clinicians say could strengthen the assistant’s medical answers — but which leaves critical questions about scope, provenance, liability and...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing post “Unlock productivity with AI automation” frames Copilot as an everyday, approachable assistant designed to remove friction from routine tasks and fold generative AI directly into how people plan, write, and organize their lives. The company positions Copilot as...

OpenAI’s invite‑only Sora app has rocketed into the public conversation after third‑party telemetry put its install count at roughly 164,000 in the first 48 hours, a surge that vaulted the app into the U.S. App Store’s top rankings — although outlets differ on whether it briefly reached No. 1 or...

OpenAI’s invite-only Sora app rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart within 48 hours of its iOS debut, recording an estimated 56,000 downloads on day one and roughly 164,000 installs across the first two days — a surge that pushed Sora to the No. 3 position and immediately focused...

OpenAI’s new short-form video app, Sora, rocketed into the U.S. App Store top ranks within days of its invite-only iOS debut, registering a rapid surge in downloads and igniting a debate about consumer appetite for AI-generated video, platform safety, and the future of social media-style...

A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...

A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a...

Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...

Switzerland’s bold Apertus release, new compact reasoning models from Nous Research, and a spate of open multilingual and on-device models this week underline a clear trend: AI is moving from closed, cloud‑only monoliths toward a more diverse ecosystem of open, efficient, and task‑specific...

Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...

Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...

Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...

Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...

FreeBSD’s core team has decided to take a cautious, deliberate path on generative AI: investigate and codify limits rather than open the gates to LLM‑authored commits, and in doing so it has joined a short but growing list of major open‑source projects that are treating AI‑generated code as a...

Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...