AI Developments

The EU Just Simplified the AI Act and Banned 'Nudifier' Apps — At the Same Time

The EU's AI Act omnibus deal delays compliance deadlines for high-risk systems, cuts red tape for small firms, and bans AI nudifier apps outright. One hand giveth, the other taketh away.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'We've Largely Conceded' China's AI Chip Market to Huawei

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's share of China's advanced AI chip market has hit zero. Huawei now holds ~41% and rising. The US export control strategy hasn't contained China's AI — it's built a parallel chip ecosystem.

Someone Dropped an Open-Source Palantir on Reddit — It's Called Osiris

A lone developer released Osiris on Reddit — an open-source global intelligence dashboard that tracks 10,000+ aircraft, 2,000+ satellites, 1,400+ CCTV cameras, and more, with built-in port scanning and DNS tools baked right into a 3D globe interface.

Sootio Is an AI-Powered Stremio Addon That Turns Piracy Into a Streaming Service — and Real-Debrid Is Fighting Back

An open-source Stremio addon called Sootio is using local LLMs to turn torrent piracy into a Netflix-grade experience — just as Real-Debrid cracks down on cached content.

Trump Pulled His Own AI Oversight Order Hours Before Signing — 'I Don't Want to Get in the Way'

Trump was hours from signing an AI oversight order, then pulled it. 'I don't want to get in the way of that leading,' he said. The whiplash from killing Biden's order to writing his own to shelving his own — in five months — is remarkable even by Trump standards.

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.