Sweet AI Lies: The Hard Truth About AI at Work
Your new colleague, career coach or mentor might just be an AI chatbot. With that increased use comes increased exposure to a major flaw in the system - AI's need to please.
AI Breakthrough
AI lab gold rush: Who's actually building?
Investors are pouring billions into AI labs with conflicting visions, from aggressive commercialisation to pure research - revealing stark divides in how builders define success in this gold rush.
AI Lifeline: Early Cancer Detection Delivered to Underserved
AI will be the biggest transformative development ever to hit the human race. Bigger than electricity. Even bigger than the internet. The spectrum of possible outcomes spans utopia on one side, and dystopian hellscape on the other.
Data Control Wars: Cloudflare's $1B Gamble on Data Grey Area
Cloudflare's $1B acquisition of Human Native AI positions the company at the center of AI's most contentious debate: who profits when machines learn from human-created content?
Retail Redefined: Coke, Nike & Starbucks level up with AI
3 of the worlds top brands are doubling down on AI to accelerate revenue growth and deliver personalised customer experiences. This is just the beginning, brands are moving from pilot schemes to enterprise grade systems that deliver memorable experiences at scale.
Global cancer fix: AI delivers country-by-country blueprint
It's now possible to map exactly how each of the 185 countries around the world should fight cancer - including tailored strategies that maximise lives saved. A new research tool that transforms complex data into concrete national priorities, is already redirecting millions in Rwanda and Brazil.
Power Pact: Apple × Google = A $1B New Siri
Apple and Google's surprise partnership reshapes the AI landscape - with Gemini now set to be the engine that powers Siri in the future. Long awaited and long overdue, but still very welcome...fingers crossed, Siri may not suck for very much longer.
China's Qwen AI models conquer Hugging Face landscape
Alibaba's Qwen AI models now fuel over 63% of new AI derivatives on Hugging Face — a clear sign of China's accelerating dominance in open-source infrastructure revealed at CES 2026.
Commerce reset: Google & Shopify's AI agent protocol
Google and Shopify just rewrote ecommerce's rulebook with an AI protocol that lets artificial agents handle entire shopping journeys - from discovery to checkout - within any chat interface.
Sold Out: AI memory prices surge 55%
The AI memory market is in crisis, with prices skyrocketing 55% this quarter as chipmakers scramble to meet booming demand for AI infrastructure.
Power play: MIT’s AI energy breakthrough
MIT has cracked AI's energy paradox, deploying smart grids that balance rising computational demands with renewable integration—turning a mounting crisis into sustainable infrastructure.
Enterprise AI Safety Surge: Accenture Acquires 400+ Experts
Accenture just ramped up enterprise AI safety capabilities with its Faculty acquisition signaling a new phase where corporations systematically address AI risks at scale.