Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News 60% of Google searches now end without a click. Small publishers lost 60% of traffic in one year. Publishers are suing, regulators are circling, and Google's AI is running out of fresh content to steal. Here's why this death spiral ends badly for everyone.
📰 News OpenAI consolidated ChatGPT, Codex, and its API under Greg Brockman, launched personal finance tools via Plaid, and is racing toward an $852 billion IPO with one platform to rule them all.
📰 News Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI launches May 25 with Anthropic's co-founder present — a geopolitical signal wrapped in theology.
📰 News The mother of Elon Musk's child is suing xAI, alleging Grok generated sexual deepfakes of her. Behind the absurdity of that sentence is a global crisis — AI-generated abuse material has exploded 260-fold, and NZ law is still catching up.
📰 News Cloud AI bills are spiralling out of control, with users hit by surprise charges in the tens of thousands. A developer who owed $58K for a week tells the inside story.
📰 News The AI industry had its biggest structural week of 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic launched competing multi-billion enterprise ventures, the EU blinked on regulation, Google caught the first AI-written zero-day exploit, and Malta became the first country to give all citizens ChatGPT Plus.
📰 News South Africa's draft National AI Policy was withdrawn after someone noticed its academic citations were entirely fabricated by AI. The policy was, in part, about the dangers of AI-generated misinformation. You cannot make this up.
📰 News OpenAI starts a $4B company to help businesses deploy AI. The EU just postponed high-risk AI rules for over a year. Colorado's hard-fought AI regulation was replaced with a watered-down version. The US government will pre-test frontier AI models before release. And Google caught the first AI-developed zero-day exploit.
📰 News EY's 44-page loyalty fraud report had 60% fake citations, a non-existent McKinsey study, and broken links to Forbes and WIRED articles that never existed.
📰 News OpenAI's Daybreak AI cybersecurity platform arrives as Google confirms it stopped the first known AI-developed zero-day exploit. Two stories, one trend: AI security is now both weapon and shield.
📰 News Anthropic writes two $1.5B and $200M cheques in the same week, UK government launches a Claude-powered chatbot, OpenAI and Apple head for a messy legal breakup, Google confirms the AI cyber offensive has begun while OpenAI launches a defensive platform the same day, the EU softens its own AI Act, and China writes the world's most detailed agentic AI rules.
📰 News NZDF deployed Copilot at 'speed' across every device in September. Eight months on, there's still no AI directive. Staff can upload RESTRICTED documents. The risk assessment warned about it a year ago.