An unexpected breakthrough: a high school student's AI uncovers 1.5 million previously invisible cosmic phenomena (LINK) — 9 June 2026
AI could consume up to 3% of world's electricity the UN warns: AI could soon use more water than we need to drink (LINK) — 7 June 2026 — United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) report on 3 June — (LINK)
Wired finds facial recognition code hidden in Meta's smart glasses app (LINK) — 5 June 2026
— TechRadar: The feature isn't live yet, and Meta claims it may never be, but reactions to it are largely negative. "Not only do you need to worry about being photographed or filmed by people's glasses, but that they could identify you just by looking at you."
Bots now generate more web traffic than humans, says Cloudflare: 57.5% of HTTP requests to HTML content, surpassing human traffic at 42.5% for the first time in internet history (LINK) — 3 June 2026
AI job cuts hit Wix, Israeli platform that lets people and businesses build websites without writing code, as CEO cuts 20% of workforce after Q1 earnings miss: about 1,000 positions (LINK) — 29 May 2026
AI detection tool flags parts of Pope Leo's Encyclical as AI-written (LINK) — ground.news: 15 media reports (LINK) — 27 May 2026
— Using the AI detection tool Pangram, one analyst found that certain passages of the document were estimated to be anywhere between 40 per cent and fully AI-generated. Another researcher reportedly analysed the text chapter by chapter and found that nearly two-thirds of the first chapter was flagged as AI-written.
Stock trading app Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (LINK) — 27 May 2026
UK sanctions Huobi and ruble stablecoin issuer in crackdown on Russia crypto networks (LINK) — 26 May 2026
— Britain applied banking-style sanctions to crypto exchanges for the first time, requiring U.K. financial firms to freeze funds and trace transactions. Sanctions target Russia's "illicit financial infrastructure", focusing on the A7 payments network, which officials say moved over $90B for military support.
Pope Leo XIV declares Artificial Intelligence a moral crisis in sweeping manifesto (LINK) — 25 May 2026
OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem: company says work on Paul Erdos planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning (LINK) — 22 May 2026
— "For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids," OpenAI wrote on X. "An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better." Guardian: "The startup has been tripped up before by its attempts to solve Erdos's problems, having hailed a supposed breakthrough last year that was in fact based on already existing literature absorbed by the model. This time, OpenAI's work has been validated by mathematicians, including Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who maintains the Erdos problems website and criticised OpenAI's prior Erdos claims."
Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments: 8,000 staffers reportedly affected, around 10% of the company (LINK) — 21 May 2026
Spotify and Universal sign musical licensing deal for AI covers and remixes: the label's roster includes Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Drake and Billie Eilish, though that does not imply any of them have agreed to participate (LINK) — 21 May 2026
Musk declares himself CEO for life (LINK) — 21 May 2026
GOOGLE: Partnering with UNICEF to support innovation in education across the globe: initiative will support education innovation for millions of students across Brazil, India, Pakistan and Kenya (LINK) — 19 May 2026
— "By responsibly integrating AI powered tools to help accelerate progress and reimagine learning, we are pairing Google's technology with UNICEF's deep expertise in building education systems to ensure every student has the tools they need to succeed. Over the next three years, UNICEF will work with local communities to build localized, scalable solutions that meet the needs of learners — from training teachers to use Gemini and NotebookLM for personalized instruction, to using ReadAlong to support learners foundational reading fluency and comprehension through guided practice."
Google's Gemini Spark is the first AI agent built for people who don't know what an AI agent is (LINK) — 19 May 2026
AI-generated fake citations are flooding scientific literature across publications, scientists warn: pattern of researchers using AI yet failing to fact-check the output (LINK) — 18 May 2026
An entire "local newspaper" just shut down when all its reporters were busted as AI fakes (LINK) — 18 May 2026
Travellers are using AI to plan better trips and find cheaper flights: however, many travelers (about half) still turn to traditional travel websites for verification and booking decisions. (LINK) — 18 May 2026
5 artificial intelligence (AI) stocks that have more than doubled this year and can still go higher: BE, LITE, MU, INTC, SNDK (LINK) — 17 May 2026
GM is firing 600 IT workers and hiring AI engineers. It calls it transformation, not termination (LINK) — 12 May 2026
US: Lawsuit claims ChatGPT gave drug-taking advice that led to teen's death (LINK) — 12 May 2026
ChatGPT 'advised school shooter to target kids to get more attention' (LINK) — 12 May 2026
'Current LLMs introduce substantial errors when editing work documents': Microsoft scientists find most AI models struggle with long-running tasks (LINK) — 12 May 2026
Amazon Web Services partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using USDC — 7 May 2026 (LINK)
US military reaches deals with 7 tech companies to use their AI on classified systems — 2 May 2026 (LINK)
— Notably absent from the list is AI company Anthropic, after its public dispute and legal fight with the Trump administration over the ethics and safety of AI usage in war.
US: Film Academy Board bans AI content at 99th Oscars, forcing human-only wins — 1 May 2026 (LINK)
— Some industry analysts speculate the stance may also be a reaction to the completion of a performance by Val Kilmer, who died in 2025, using AI technology.
The GPT in ChatGPT refers to Generative Pre-training Transformer, referring to the way that ChatGPT processes language (LINK).
GLOBAL GENEVA INSIGHTS: AI health check — cryptocurrencies: the patient is still very sick (LINK)
Samsung profit surges over eight-fold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch — (LINK) ground.news: media reports — 30 April 2026 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI for Altman changing it to a for-profit enterprise — 27 April 2026 (LINK)
AI can cost more than human workers now — 26 April 2026 (LINK)
Meta to lay off 8,000 as part of AI efficiency push — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for doctors outperforms humans in clinical tasks — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
AI search is changing which crypto brands get discovered: i.e. the ones whose coverage appears in the right places, in the right format, with consistent language across sources — 14 April 2026 (LINK)
— Less than 15% of crypto projects have taken meaningful steps to appear in AI-generated answers, and the gap between who AI recommends and who deserves to be recommended widens every quarter.
10 best AI crypto and stock trading bots (2026): a beginner's guide — 14 April 2026 (LINK)
Scott Bessent calls emergency meeting with bank CEOs over AI that could crash the financial system — what is Anthropic's Mythos and why the panic? — 12 April 2026 (LINK)
— Moneywise: According to Anthropic's security team (6), Mythos has already identified thousands of previously unknown, aka "zero-day," vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. Among the discoveries: a flaw in OpenBSD — widely regarded as one of the most secure operating systems available — that had gone undetected for 27 years, and a bug in the video processor FFmpeg that survived five million automated security tests without being caught, per Quartz. What makes Mythos especially worrying to regulators is not just that it can find these flaws, but that it can link multiple vulnerabilities together autonomously to construct working exploits.
Pentagon Official profited 4,800% on Musk's xAI stock, Guardian reports — (LINK) ground.news: 9 media reports — 9 April 2026 (LINK)
Using AI safely as a journalist: Stand-alone AI tools — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool Claude — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
— Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company.
AI models lie, cheat, and steal to protect other models from being deleted — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
