With nearly two billion users worldwide, Gmail remains the most popular web-based email platform by a wide margin. But as Google subtly evolves its monetization model, a pressing question faces users in early 2025: Should they stick with the free version or move to one of the paid tiers of Google Workspace? Google’s recent campaign…

The idea of a lasting, global peace brokered not by diplomats or deterrents, but by artificial intelligence, once belonged to the realm of science fiction. Yet the notion of “Pax Silica” — a term popularized following a 2020-era U.S. policy concept that envisioned AI-enabled stability — is rapidly reshaping as political tensions, industrial competition, and…

Google’s recent decision to pause the rollout of its AI-powered search summaries—known as “AI Overviews”—comes amid rising scrutiny about the system’s reliability, particularly in domains where misinformation could carry real-world risks. Health-related queries, long among the most sensitive categories in search behavior, are at the heart of this temporary halt. Following a Guardian investigation published…

As the capabilities of generative AI scale upward, researchers are facing an unexpected and deeply consequential problem: models like GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 have begun to replicate, verbatim, private data embedded in their training sets. This phenomenon, known as the AI memorization crisis, now sits at the intersection of privacy, intellectual property law, machine design,…

In a striking start to the 2026 investment cycle, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has surged to the forefront of the funding ecosystem, securing $6 billion in Series B financing. This marks the largest private funding round so far this year, catalyzing a renewed wave of capital movement into AI and foundational model ventures….

In early January 2026, an incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis ignited a torrent of public outrage, driven not by verified evidence but by viral images created by AI. These fabricated visuals—circulated widely on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and Telegram—purported to show violent acts that, according to first responders…