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Amazon to cut 16,000 jobs worldwide

Office roles face the bulk of about 30,000 cuts, not warehouse staff.

Google wants your emails and photos to ‘personalise’ its AI. Should you let it?

What’s good – and scary – about Gemini’s new Personal Intelligence.

Fake storm images: Officials warn of AI-generated images of Mount Maunganui damage

Netsafe urges people to check sources and watch for odd details in images.

Mount Maunganui's Syos shortlisted for £100m 'wingman drone' military contract

'The UK is pivoting to a new way of war.'

AI job cuts are landing hardest in Britain, research shows

Britain losing more jobs than it’s creating because of AI, Morgan Stanley research finds.

False posts and altered images distort views of Minnesota shooting

Video shows Alex Pretti disarmed and pinned before agents shot him.

EU opens probe into Musk's Grok over sexual AI deepfakes

EU officials say Grok helped create an estimated three million sexualised images.

AI and tech redraw New Zealand’s banking playbook

Australia’s big banks finished similar upgrades a decade ago and now lead in AI.

OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT

Adverts will first appear in the United States for free and lower-tier users.

Standalone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool

X says Grok is blocked in some places, but the stand-alone app still undresses photos.

Rocket Lab shares surge to all-time high as its US military business explodes

Kiwi-American firm takes its seat at the top table.

Here comes the advertising in AI chatbots

Rivals like OpenAI, Meta and Perplexity are also exploring chatbot advertising.