New One UI 8 leak shows off AI Video Summarize tool Users can now test out this tool that is allegedly coming with One UI 8. Android Central · Apr 29, 2025
MrBeast Seeks 100 Volunteers to Fight a Gorilla, Gets Thousands Instead: 'This Is Why Men Don't Live as Long' YouTuber and viral challenge mogul MrBeast has joined in on the absurd hypothetical debate online: Could 100 men take down a gorilla? Latin Times · Apr 29, 2025
Meta Releases Standalone AI App, Competing With ChatGPT Social media behemoth Meta unveiled its first standalone AI assistant app on Tuesday, challenging ChatGPT by giving users a direct path to its generative artificial intelligence models. International Business Times · Apr 29, 2025
Huawei Ascend AI 910D processor designed to take on Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin GPUs Huawei's Ascend 910D AI accelerator is expected to match Nvidia's H100 performance on the GPU level, with full systems based on the Ascend 910D set to compete against Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin based pods. Tom’s Hardware · Apr 29, 2025
Elon Musk says Grok 3.5 will provide answers that aren't from internet sources The Grok 3.5 beta is set to release next week for SuperGrok subscribers, with claims that it's a reasoning model that can provide unique answers that aren't on the internet. Tom’s Hardware · Apr 29, 2025
New Meta AI app provides a Llama 4-powered challenge to Gemini The Meta View app is becoming the Meta AI app, moving beyond Ray-Ban glasses settings to a more general AI experience built to rival Gemini Live. Android Central · Apr 29, 2025
Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes and 'revenge porn,' passes. What is it? The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online, is heading to President Donald Trump's signature after its bipartisan passage in congress The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2025
Meta takes on ChatGPT with new standalone AI app — here's what makes it different Meta has launched its first standalone AI app, to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini — featuring voice chat, a Discover feed, and deep social integration. Tom’s Guide · Apr 29, 2025
“No one noticed that half the playlist was AI-created, and a few even preferred the AI tracks”: Should today’s music-makers and producers fear AI - or embrace its inevitability? This is the dawning of the AI age - but it doesn’t have to be the death knell for humans. Here’s why we believe music production will always be a human-led pursuit MusicRadar · Apr 29, 2025
Former school athletic director gets 4 months in jail in racist AI deepfake case A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disturbing school operations The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2025
Perplexity AI joins WhatsApp: how to use the new chatbot and what it can do Hot on the heels of ChatGPT, which landed on WhatsApp late last year, Perplexity is now available to message directly on the platform Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
AI designs 50 gravitational wave detectors that could outperform human-made ones Artificial intelligence could offer a powerful pathway to supercharge our ability to "hear" the universe, according to new research. Space · Apr 29, 2025
Regulation of AI chatbots is ‘muddled and confused’, charity warns One online safety group has urged Ofcom to clarify and strengthen its approach to AI chatbots in the Online Safety Act. Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pulls the plug on ChatGPT-4o's sycophantic update — it was annoyingly "flattering and agreeable" Following backlash from users over OpenAI's latest ChatGPT update that made the chatbot overly flattering, CEO Sam Altman indicated that the company rolled back the update. Windows Central · Apr 29, 2025
Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025 UK leading Europe in AI start-ups, tech report claims More than 1,500 organisations across 12 European countries were surveyed
The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2025 ChatGPT users can now shop with the AI bot, as OpenAI takes on Amazon Unlike e-commerce rivals, OpenAI says ChatGPT will not feature ads
Louder · Apr 29, 2025 “People have brains. They should use them instead of becoming like the machines they’re trying to play”: From experience, Hawkwind’s Dave Brock is against AI. Surprisingly, he’s also against the prevalence of legalised drugs Even though a lost account password threatened production, 2023 concept album The Future Never Waits is a death-to-life analysis of why humans keep corrupting everything
Tom’s Guide · Apr 29, 2025 I put ChatGPT-4o vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet through a 7-round face-off — one left the other in the dust Two of the hottest chatbots go head-to-head with 7 challenging prompts to determine a winner.
Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025 University applications for AI degrees rise 15%, data shows Data from Ucas shows the number of young people applying for degrees in artificial intelligence are rising, even as wider computing applications fall.
Tom’s Guide · Apr 28, 2025 OpenAI says it's fixing the 'annoying' new ChatGPT personality — 5 tips to customize it yourself ChatGPT’s personality shift has sparked complaints — but for me, a friendly chatbot makes all the difference.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025 EU microchip strategy ‘deeply disconnected from reality’, say official auditors Plan to supply 20% of the world’s chips by 2030 described as ‘essentially aspirational’
The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025 AI solves 100-year-old mystery to supercharge scientific discovery Breakthrough AI model could help advance everything from ultra-powerful batteries, to archaeology
The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025 Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future A coalition fixated on intelligence is staking the US economy on AI – which will devalue the very skills the right fetishises, says author Quinn Slobodian
T3 · Apr 28, 2025 Kindle Scribes just got an AI upgrade to make them way more powerful Notebook summaries get a boost
MusicRadar · Apr 28, 2025 Splice acquires Spitfire Audio in rumoured $50m deal The two companies plan to work together on new products that "blend Spitfire Audio’s cinematic soundscapes and orchestral expertise with Splice’s sample catalog and AI-powered discovery engine"