LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again
LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn say…

Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas
Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas

Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and t…

AI model "capability overhang" biggest challenge facing European businesses, says OpenAI revenue chief

European businesses are shifting from pilot to deep integration of OpenAI’s technology, but there is a “little bit of a capability overhang” between the utility of AI models and what businesses can su…

Russia’s Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba

CEO German Gref didn’t specify which Chinese chips Sberbank is interested in, but the most likely candidate is Huawei’s Ascend 950 family.

French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites
French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands…

AI may have just won a literary prize. My heart weeps seeing it poison our love for books.

Three of five winning stories in the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been flagged as AI-generated, and it’s a lot bigger deal than you might think.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will ar…

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats and appear more human than us. I am spooked now

A UC San Diego study found GPT-4.5 was judged human more often than real people in live chats, raising sharper questions about AI disclosure, trust, and online identity.

20VC leads $20m Series A investment in onboarding startup Prelude

French digital onboarding startup Prelude has raised $20m in a Series A funding round led by Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, which is investing in the startup for the first time. Other investors in the round i…

Google wants Gemini to help build the next big scientific breakthrough

Google’s Gemini for Science pushes AI beyond research summaries, with experimental tools for hypotheses, computational testing, and literature review. The bigger question is whether it can earn trust inside real labs.