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When AI is designed to be rational.
A Pizza Hut franchisee called Chaac Pizza Northeast, which runs more than 100 stores, is suing the chain for $100 million over an AI system that they installed.
OpenAI is being sued over a teenagers death.
OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit over advice ChatGPT allegedly gave a 19-year-old before his fatal overdose.
X-rays and CT Scans offer more insights
Artificial intelligence is enabling radiologists to extract valuable diagnostic information from routine chest imaging, including identifying patients at risk for osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease without additional scans.
Good ethics help?
Anthropics AI solutions, including the Claude family, have overtaken OpenAI (ChatGPT) for the first time since they started in business subscriptions.
Understanding how Claude thinks and reasons.
In an aim to understand how Claude thinks Anthropic is working to give a language to how it thinks.
AI powered drug discovery
Google Deepmind spinoff Isomorphic Labs is close to raising $2bn in new funding to support their aim to accelerate drug discovery.
Claude for Legal
Anthropic have expanded Claudes AI tools for legal firms in a move that deepens their reach into organisations to replace tasks, skills and capabilities with AI solutions.
Disaster Data
The EU Joint Research Centre has just built a dataset that covers over 3,000 disaster events across 175 countries between 2014 and 2024, spanning 26 disaster types and accounting for around 80% of global economic losses.
X user tricks Grok using morse code
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot.
AI better in the ER room
If your image of an ER room is of complex, crazy, life threatening and changing decisions happening in the moment, you are not wrong.
Can Governments stop AI models?
Well yes. As the US Government has demonstrated with the latest Anthropic Mythos release.
Will the US midterms be driven by AI?
A recent NBC News article highlights how AI-generated content is quietly but rapidly entering political campaigns, especially in the run-up to the 2026 midterms.
AI collaborating in spotting Breast Cancer
A new Nature Cancer study explores whether AI can safely step into one of healthcare’s most critical workflows: breast cancer screening.
Does AI make things up?
A recent experiment by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows how quickly false data can enter the narrative.
Watching your clicks
Many organisations have realised that the missing piece in their AI jigsaw is the knowledge and understanding in their employees heads.
SNAP and you are gone.
Evan Spiegal, CEO of SNAP announced 1,000 jobs gone (16% of staff), $500 million stripped out of the cost base, and a repeated insistence that this is not panic but precision.
From shoes to GPU's
Allbirds, once a poster child for ethical consumerism, merino wool minimalism and B‑Corp virtue calmly announced it has sold its shoes, its brand and, effectively, its former self this week to become NewBird AI, a GPU‑as‑a‑Service operation armed with $50 million of convertible financing.
It isn't what you have, it is how you use it.
Stanford issued their 2026 AI Index recently, a full 423 pages of AI related data, from attendance at AI conferences, AI patents by geography to Human vs AI performance benchmarks.
When your AI needs a moral Board of Advisors
Last month, Anthropic, the developer of Claude did something unusual for Silicon Valley and hosted a two‑day moral summit.