Experts are worried that smarter AI gets, the dumber we might become

As AI turns intelligence into an on-demand service, experts warn that instant answers could weaken the curiosity, scrutiny, and source-checking habits that make human thinking valuable.

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address
Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…

How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation
How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation

This sponsored article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia.Melbourne’s reputation as a global events city, from the Australian Open tennis and Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix to hosting NFL reg…

CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist
CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its fir…

Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models [Sponsored]

UK voice AI startup SLNG says the voice labs that have dominated the market have been systematically overcharging enterprises — and that the industry is heading for a price correction.”The market has …

Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.
Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.

Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The…

The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer
The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer

AI companies are not just changing the way people work. They are changing the kinds of roles that exist. Org charts are morphing as an entirely new class of jobs emerges, some with titles that did not exist two years ago, others that represent old prof…

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.
Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew f…

OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.
OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that OpenA…