Smart glasses are back, and this time they’re pretending to be normal

Smart glasses are returning with better frames, softer branding, and AI tucked into something that looks almost normal. That may make them easier to wear, but it doesn’t make face-mounted cameras any less socially awkward.

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Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology
 Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology

The 24 hours since Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, have produced something unusual: a papal document being read in earnest by financial and policy capitals as a piece of tech-regulation analysis rather than a piece of …

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BNP Paribas works with Mistral on a European answer to Anthropic’s Mythos
 BNP Paribas works with Mistral on a European answer to Anthropic’s Mythos

BNP Paribas is working with Mistral AI to prepare for a category of AI cybersecurity tools its US peers already use and its European supervisors cannot reliably get hold of, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. The Paris-based bank, the eurozone…

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Uber chief warns no link yet between AI tokenmaxxing and shipping successful products — company pumps the brakes on all-out AI spending

Uber might be having a serious rethink about lavishing cash on AI services as management still can’t draw a clear link between LLM use and beneficial results.
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Voxmind raises £546k Pre-Seed funding as cloud giants exit voice biometrics market

London-based voice biometrics and deepfake detection startup Voxmind, has closed a £546,491 pre-seed round led by Ascension Ventures. The round also includes participation from Mark McDermott (co-foun…

Survey reveals that 99% of CEOs now expect AI-driven layoffs — companies are racing to replace junior workers with AI, even as many executives remain uncertain about the returns on AI investments

A new Mercer report reveals that 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs within two years, with entry-level workers facing the biggest threat as companies slash junior roles despite many executives admitting AI investments st…

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It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.

Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…

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A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst—or tech journalist—and…

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Vercel CEO and Last.fm co-founder back Swedish AI-generated music platform emerging from stealth

An array of music-industry veterans and operators, including the co-founder of online music pioneer Last.fm and the CEO of cloud app hosting startup Vercel, are backing a Swedish AI-generated music pl…

Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional
 Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings li…

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