World
Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
Tagged “Artificial Intelligence”
World
The Nasdaq has closed its worst month since March 2025, and the reason is the size of the AI bill
Earnings are not matching the spending, and that gap is what a bubble warning actually looks like from the inside.
World
Google lost half a trillion dollars in a day for admitting its own AI is eating its advertising
Revenue grew 25% to $127.6bn. The market punished the company anyway, because of one sentence about where search advertising goes next.
World
Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
Bangladesh
“The system says no”: what to do when a machine decides you cannot have a loan
Automated creditworthiness scoring opens lending to people with no banking history. It also makes refusals hard to question, which is why…
Technology
A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
World
Britain will make data centres earn their grid connection — jobs, water and local investment first, and Northumberland is about to find out what that means
Three facilities are proposed within two square miles of one constituency. The local MP who asked for regulation says the devil is in the…
Technology
“Like cutting up a Picasso”: a dead soap opera is being fed to AI to make vertical mini-episodes, and the people in it were not asked
No new scenes, no synthetic voices, a human approving every stage — and still a genuine dispute, because the contracts were signed before…
World
Microsoft made $36.6bn in three months days after offering 60,000 people money to leave — and on the same afternoon Alphabet’s shares fell 9.75%
Yesterday we asked whether the buyouts were AI productivity or the cost of AI capex. The earnings do not settle it, but they say what the…
Health
Dogs can smell prostate cancer in a urine sample — a £100,000 donation is funding the attempt to build a machine that does the same thing
The dogs already work. The hard part is turning what they can do into something that scales, and that needs more data than hand-recorded…
World
A thief painted a scroll over the lamb to disguise a stolen Saint Agnese — the software matched it anyway, twenty years and 500km later
This is AI policing that works, and the reason is instructive: the task is narrow, the answer is checkable, and a human decides what…
World
A publican photographed a wall the storm knocked onto her neighbours’ cars, and the internet told her she had made it up
The damage was real, corroborated by other photographs and eyewitnesses. The cost of generated images is not only that fakes spread — it is…