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Zuckerberg, Ellison and Huang set for Trump's big tech council

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will include top tech executives and advise on AI, the economy and security.

AI-written resumes are making the hiring process tougher, recruiter says

Robert Half research finds artificial intelligence–generated resumes are making it harder for hiring managers to verify candidate skills and slowing hiring.

Uber to launch Europe’s first robotaxi service in Zagreb

Uber, Pony.ai and Verne plan a commercial robotaxi rollout in Croatia, integrating autonomous vehicles onto Uber’s ride‑hail network.

Google has installed "sensory intervention" pods to helps AI teams cope

Some days, at some point, everyone feels the need to hide in an office closet for a while, right? ...

Conntour launches AI video search with $7 million

The platform offers unrestricted natural-language searches across live and archived camera feeds and runs fully on-premises.

WhatsApp adds storage, transfer and AI tools

WhatsApp introduces Manage Storage, cross-platform chat transfer, dual iOS accounts and AI photo and writing tools.

Apple adds partners to American Manufacturing Program

Apple expands its U.S. supply chain with Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK and Qnity Electronics under AMP.

KPMG's AI lead says Copilot didn't make her faster. It made her work on harder problems

Three years into using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Christine Andrew is not leaving the office earlier. She is spending more time on the work that actually matters

AI data centres can now dial down their power use in seconds

Emerald AI has demonstrated that GPU clusters can respond to grid stress signals in real time, hitting 200 consecutive power targets without missing one. The implications for how AI infrastructure connects to the grid are significant

Google wants advertisers to think of its AI tools as colleagues, not features

Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor can now hold a conversation, remember context and flag campaign problems in plain English. Google's advice: treat them like a junior analyst, not a search bar.

Shein's own research shows its customers are not the throwaway shoppers its critics assume

A survey of 15,000 consumers across 21 markets finds high repeat wear, widespread repair habits and a recycling gap driven by logistics, not indifference

OpenAI is paying researchers to find ways its AI can be weaponised

The new Safety Bug Bounty program targets harms that fall outside conventional security definitions. Prompt injection, agent hijacking and account manipulation are all in scope

Google opens its music generation model to developers, with watermarking built in from the start

Lyria 3 can produce full-length songs with vocals, verses and choruses. Every track it generates carries a hidden signature that survives editing

Nvidia says the open versus proprietary AI debate is the wrong argument

At GTC, Jensen Huang and a panel of industry builders made the case that the real question is not which model wins, but how they work together

Microsoft is spending $5bn to bring AI to the nonprofit sector

The company's new Changemaker program pairs credentials and fellowships with hard numbers from the field. The pitch is that responsible AI adoption should not be a luxury for well-resourced organisations

Enterprise AI failed because of bad data engineering, not bad models. Nvidia believes it can fix that

NemoClaw is built on the assumption that enterprises can solve this themselves. The consulting industry's business model depends on them being wrong

OpenAI Foundation to invest at least $1bn across health, safety and community programmes

The foundation frames the commitment as early work toward a previously announced $25 billion pledge focused on curing diseases and AI resilience

Meta and Arm to co-develop data centre chips built for AI workloads

The partnership will produce multiple CPU generations optimised for higher performance per rack, with designs to be shared via the Open Compute Project

Japanese machining firm builds AI voice assistant to tackle manufacturing skills shortage

ARUM's KAYA interface lets less-experienced operators run complex CNC workflows using natural language and speech.

Medical AI moves from research benchmark to clinical deployment

Drug discovery, documentation and diagnostics are seeing real-world adoption as regulation catches up with rapidly advancing models