AI Developments

BBC Investigation: Google's AI Can Be Manipulated in 20 Minutes — and You Should Assume It Is

A single blog post was all it took to make Google and ChatGPT declare a journalist a champion competitive eater. The same trick is being used systemically to manipulate health, finance, and political information — and the defences are still catching up.

Google Just Rewrote Search for the AI Era — and the Old Internet Is Officially Over

Google killed the ten blue links. AI agents, conversational search, and generative UI now define how 2.5 billion people find information. Publishers, start your engines — or what's left of them.

DeepMind's Hassabis Says We're at the 'Foothills of the Singularity' — Right on Cue for Google's Product Launch

The usually measured Hassabis dropped the S-word at Google's biggest product event of the year. Coincidence? AGI is 'just a few years away' — and so is Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, and the biggest Search redesign in 25 years.

Daily News: May 22, 2026 — The Week the Job Market Broke

NZ's $2.4 Billion AI Savings Claim Has a Problem — Nobody Knows What the AI Will Cost

Cut 8,700 jobs, replace with AI, save $2.4 billion. Simple maths — except nobody can say what the AI will actually cost, who provides it, or what happens when prices stop being subsidised.

An AI Just Solved an 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture — And Mathematicians Are Stunned

For 80 years, mathematicians believed the square grid was optimal for the unit distance problem. An AI just proved them wrong — using algebraic number theory nobody expected.

Daily News — Google's AI Is Being Manipulated, EU Rolls Back Its Own AI Rules, OpenAI Goes Provenance

AI search manipulation is an arms race nobody's winning. The EU pulled its own teeth on AI regulation. OpenAI wants you to know what's real. And Qwen just dropped an agent powerhouse.

Google Caught the First AI-Written Zero-Day Exploit Before It Hit. This Changes Everything.

Google caught the first AI-written zero-day exploit in the wild. The cybersecurity arms race just went industrial.

NZ Government's Plan to Replace 8,700 Public Servants With AI Has a Math Problem

NZ is planning to replace 8,700 public servants with AI. The problem? Nobody in government can say what the AI will actually cost.

OpenAI Finally Adds Visible Watermarks and Invisible SynthID to AI Images

OpenAI is adding C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks to AI images. It won't stop bad actors, but it makes the good-faith provenance argument much harder to ignore.

OpenAI Puts Down $235M in Singapore for Its First Overseas Applied AI Lab

OpenAI's first overseas applied AI lab is in Singapore — $235M, 200 staff, and a very deliberate Asia pivot.

A Prize-Winning Short Story Was Probably Written by AI. Nobody Noticed Until It Won.

Granta published a prize-winning story that multiple AI detectors flagged as 100% AI-generated. The Commonwealth Foundation stands by it. Barnes & Noble says bring on the AI books.