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Today's AI coverage spans policy and power struggles: the UK chancellor is pledging budget funds for a "British" AI strategy and a biosecurity lab, Pennsylvania now requires AI ad labels, and Welsh residents are fighting a datacentre's expansion. Elsewhere, studies highlight AI's political bias (Grok leans Republican, GPT leans Democrat), athletes are licensing AI clones of themselves, and practical pieces cover ChatGPT's new privacy feature, PHP security flaws exploited via AI, and a running list of failed AI projects. Rounding things out are lighter items on Musk's rough new Grok-made "Odyssey" video, a human-speech-trained AI model from Block, and Capcom's major data breach.

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The Verge — AI

Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when things look too polished and seamless. To counter that, Blue Planet III goes warts and all. Executive Producer Elizabeth White told The Guardian in the past, "the amount of plankton and things" floating in the water would hav

Elon Musk actually follows through on Grok AI adaptation of The Odyssey

Elon Musk promised an AI “Odyssey” to rival Christopher Nolan’s. The first Grok Imagine episode is out, and it's rough.

The Guardian — AITrusted source

‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone

Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he strides through an enormous atrium, the sound of his football boots on polished concrete echoing around him. Suddenly, he spawns four digital clones that peel off out of view to re-emerge in different settings around the world. This scene from a social media video is fake and gene

TechCrunch — AI

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

The Verge — AI

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to include a label in the same format as the ad itself. That applies to TV commercials from multi-billion-dollar companies, as well as restaurants' ugly, crowded flyers about their

Blocks latest AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech — and it shows

Jack Dorsey and Block, Inc. just took us one step closer to the singularity and it's simultaneously awesome and terrifying.

Capcom confirms data breach that affected 11.7 million users

Capcom ID is still available to use, but users may see more phishing scam emails.

The UK is investing $134 million into an AI Biosecurity Lab

The UK has established the AI Biosecurity Lab, which will help it detect biological threats and develop vaccines with AI.

TechCrunch — AI

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

TechCrunch — AI

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

TechRadar — AI

ChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature has a major privacy catch

ChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature can stop other people from reading your conversations, but protecting the information inside them requires additional privacy precautions.

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

The Guardian — AITrusted source

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on the lawn for his grandchildren, and chairs for him and his wife. He should be enjoying the light draining from the perfect autumnal sky – but almost his entire view is blotted out by a vast expanse of prefabri

Get ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in one lifetime AI toolkit for $99.99

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The Guardian — AITrusted source

John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security

Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday’s budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster Britain’s security and prosperity against the risks in the accelerating global technology arms race. As he prepares for his debut budget, the chancellor said that Andy Burnham’s government would commit hundreds of millions of pounds to develop a “distinctively British” approach to A

Financial Times — AITrusted source

The money questions children ask AI chatbots

Forty per cent of UK youngsters in a survey had asked AI for financial advice

Financial Times — AITrusted source

Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI

Former NSO Group boss Shalev Hulio seeks to reinvent himself as a champion of sovereign AI and national security

BBC News — TechnologyTrusted source

UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab

The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.

TechCrunch — AI

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

The Guardian — AITrusted source

Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom

BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough-narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”, its producers have said. Nearly a decade after Blue Planet II shone a light on plastic pollution, and 25 years since the first Blue Planet aired, the hit BBC series is returning with more animal behaviour and cutting-edg