Google’s AI Overviews Led Users Astray, Reports Say Some Phone Numbers Are Scams Summary Google’s AI Overviews have been reported to return fraudulent customer-service phone numbers in multiple incidents. Users…
Microsoft Warns Excel’s New AI Function ‘Can Give Incorrect Responses’ in High-Stakes Scenarios Summary Microsoft is trialling a CoPilot feature in Excel that uses OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini model to automatically fill…
US Tech Stocks Hit By Concerns Over Future of AI Boom Summary US technology shares sold off after growing investor scepticism about whether the recent AI-driven rally can be sustained.…
I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers Summary Runway AI partnered with Imax to present a touring programme of 10 short films…
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived Summary This WIRED longread by Zoë Schiffer follows Stability AI’s turbulent journey from early generative-AI success to near collapse and an audacious,…
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts Summary Chinese ecommerce platforms are increasingly using AI-powered ‘virtual human’ avatars as 24/7 livestream salespeople. Built with video models and…
What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks Summary This Nature feature examines cases where AI-generated research papers appear to reuse others’ ideas or methods without attribution. It centres…
KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot Summary KPMG Australia built an agentic TaxBot by crafting a 100‑page prompt and deploying it via an internal platform called KPMG Workbench.…
Anarchy in the AI: Trump’s desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles Summary Opinion piece by Rupert Goodwins critiques proposals from Donald Trump and allies to radically deregulate…
AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy Summary Researchers from SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School tested whether large language models (LLMs) can persuade buyers with…
