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In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company,…

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes. and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems.

Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.

OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval.

Tame producer prices keep US rate hike bets in check.

The conference will delve into the findings of this year’s IITPSA Skills Survey, which will analyse the impact of AI on ICT jobs in SA.

OpenAI joins the IPO flurry.

Google’s AI subscription lineup went through its biggest overhaul yet at Google I/O 2026 in May. What was once a single AI Premium tier has expanded into four plans: a free tier, Google AI Plus, Google AI Pro, and now two versions of Google AI Ultra. one at $100/month and one at $200/month. The […]

Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on AI. Is it money well spent? Merryn Somerset Webb explains why it could be a colossal false start. (Source: Bloomberg)

The new career path for professors: join Anthropic.

IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise.

An interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field about building Figma, and why he believes AI gives the company a tailwind.

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In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts? The Guardian

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

Spark NZ extended its gains on the digital services carve-out.

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”.

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