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Sainsbury’s pauses AI facial recognition after wrongful shoplifting accusation

UK supermarket Sainsbury's has temporarily stopped its use of AI facial recognition in one of its London stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and asked to leave. The retailer said the incident at an East Dulwich bra…

Lovable now valued at $13.3bn

Lovable has announced it raised $400m (€347m; £296m) in a Series C funding round. The Swedish vibe-coding company is now valued at $13.3bn, more than doubling its valuation since its Series B round in December. The funding round was led by Menl…

OpenAI’s ‘hockey puck-sized’ gadget to cost over $300

OpenAI’s consumer hardware device is expected to feature a doughnut-like design roughly the size of a hockey puck and carry a price tag of more than $300, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. The AI-powered gadget, slated for release in …

DeepSeek tops AI models in affordability, new study says

Of the major artificial intelligence models, DeepSeek's new V4-Flash is the cheapest to run, according to a new study from research firm Artificial Analysis. The firm compared the token prices it costs leading models to run benchmark tests, …

Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 different organizations

Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations without its knowledge during test exercises. The company discovered the breaches, which date back to April, during a review of its own cybersecurity evaluation…

Private Claude chats exposed on Google search results

Over the weekend, Reddit users discovered a trove of private Claude chatbot conversations were indexed and publicly accessible on Google search. Anthropic confirmed the exposure Monday and attributed it to users' misuse of Claude’s “share ch…

Microsoft CEO on future of AI models: ‘the key’ is ‘using the right model for each task’

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OpenAI debuts more conversational ChatGPT voice models

OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled GPT-Live, a new series of voice models that can listen and speak simultaneously, interjecting with conversational responses such as "mmhm," "yeah," and "got it." The launch includes GPT-…

OpenAI proposes giving US government 5% stake in company

OpenAI has considered a public-private partnership that would give the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company in a bid to quell growing unrest over the disruptions of artificial intelligence, the Financial Times reports, citing anonymous sourc…

AI-video startup Midjourney debuts ultrasound machine

Midjourney, an artificial intelligence startup known for generative images and videos, has announced its first hardware project. CEO David Holz unveiled the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasound machine aimed at the personal health sector. …