China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets
China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets

China’s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation encourage theatres to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops to t…

OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project
OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project

OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastr…

Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of esc…

Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of esc…

The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun

The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wedn…

The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun

The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wedn…

Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep
Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but per…

Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep
Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but per…

North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets
North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets

Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The …

North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets
North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets

Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The …