Parents worry AI is becoming a crutch for their kids while schools struggle to keep up, survey finds

A new Deloitte survey found that 49% of parents worry their child relies on AI too much, while only 33% of schools have any AI guidelines in place.

AI writing startup co-founded by DeepMind creative lead raises $13M seed investment

A London-based startup behind an AI writing product, co-founded by an ex-DeepMind creative lead, has emerged from stealth with a $13m seed funding round. Called Marker, the funding round was led by In…

Inside IBM’s hidden ‘Court 19’, where Wimbledon becomes a test lab for AI
Inside IBM’s hidden ‘Court 19’, where Wimbledon becomes a test lab for AI

A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the b…

Microsoft’s Brad Smith: the US is regulating AI with rules nobody can read
Microsoft’s Brad Smith: the US is regulating AI with rules nobody can read

Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really…

AI image generators have escaped nightmare fingers and entered the fake premium era

I tested Meta Muse, Gemini Nano Banana 2, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. The obvious AI failures are fading, but the new flaws are harder to laugh off.

Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot
Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot

Taiwan’s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island’s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank…

Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns
Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns

Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a ne…

Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds
Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds

Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child “relie…

Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code
Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code

Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it. Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change …

Recruiters chase specialised AI roles as their own jobs come under threat
Recruiters chase specialised AI roles as their own jobs come under threat

The recruitment industry, one of the first white-collar businesses that automation was meant to hollow out, is trying to reinvent itself by selling the very thing that threatens it. Facing AI tools that can screen applicants and draft job posts in seco…