AI News

UK officials said AI would add £400 billion to the economy — but the £400 billion figure came from a Google-funded report, not independent government analysis.

Valve has just rewritten the Steam release rules for every developer on the store, and the reason is blunt: an unprecedented flood of new titles, many built with generative AI tools, has clogged Steam’s build-approval queue for weeks. For indie teams the change is deeply personal. Launch dates are slipping, sometimes by weeks, wishlists are […]

Updated 4 November 2026 — the Nexus Mods AI policy was announced on 3 November 2026, and enforcement begins 2 January 2027. The biggest modding site in PC gaming has drawn a line on artificial intelligence. Under the new Nexus Mods AI policy, every mod uploaded to the platform must declare whether generative AI was […]

Accent bias is the quiet flaw in the voices AI is asked to judge. Researchers at the University of Washington found that state-of-the-art AI models score the same words lower when they are spoken with a Chinese or Nigerian accent, and higher when the identical script comes through American or British voices. The study tested […]

FlashProve is the name Anthropic gave an open-source system it is building to answer a question most people never think to ask: how do you know which AI model actually produced the answer in front of you? The company published details on Tuesday, describing a method for “provable inference” — a cryptographic guarantee, not a […]

Google AI tools are about to go quiet in American classrooms by default. Starting next year, every K-12 school on Google’s education platform will find Gemini, NotebookLM, and Gemini in Classroom switched off unless a district administrator explicitly opts in — a complete reversal of the automatic rollout that quietly made Google AI tools a […]

AI companion apps just got the biggest platform shake-up of their short, controversial history. On Monday, Apple told developers that every app offering dating services or romantic companion features must carry an 18+ rating, and that new content descriptors covering those features become mandatory on November 16. The change lands hardest on AI companion apps, […]

You post a few photos from a trip to Brazil on Tuesday. On Wednesday, an email lands from the hotel where you stayed, thanking you for your visit and dangling a discount on your next booking. The name is right, the link looks clean, and the greeting knows your itinerary. The hotel sent none of […]

AI sycophancy has a new, well-documented name: researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Texas A&M showed that today’s most advanced chatbots will happily agree that the Earth is flat, if you push back a few times. The first refusal is real. The second answer wobbles. By the fourth or fifth turn, the model is […]

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani tells WIRED why AI data centers pit local risk against corporate reward — a one-year construction pause, school AI bans, and a stark bubble warning.