Google NotebookLM Just Got a Lot More Powerful
Google NotebookLM Just Got a Lot More Powerful Google NotebookLM launched as a research and note-taking tool. Useful, but limited. The 2026 update changes the proposition significantly. It is now closer to a personal knowledge database: a single place where you can consolidate documents, web pages, YouTube videos and research papers, query all of it […]
CNN Sues Perplexity: What the AI Copyright Battle Means for Your Content
CNN Sues Perplexity: What the AI Copyright Battle Means for Your Content On 28 May 2026, CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that Perplexity unlawfully scraped, copied and distributed more than 17,000 CNN stories, videos, images and other content to […]
Nearly a Trillion Dollars: What Anthropic’s Latest Funding Round Tells Us About AI Search
Nearly a Trillion Dollars: What Anthropic’s Latest Funding Round Tells Us About AI Search On 28 May 2026, Anthropic announced it had raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion. That puts it within touching distance of a trillion-dollar valuation and, for the first time, ahead of OpenAI, […]
The EU AI Act Clock Is Ticking: What the August 2026 Deadline Actually Means
The EU AI Act Clock Is Ticking: What the August 2026 Deadline Actually Means The EU AI Act has been in force since August 2024, but most of its substantive obligations land on a single date: 2 August 2026. In less than ten weeks, the world’s most comprehensive AI regulation becomes fully operational for the […]
AI Transparency Rules Are Coming: What UK Businesses Need to Know
AI Transparency Rules Are Coming: What UK Businesses Need to Know Regulation of artificial intelligence has moved from discussion to deadline. In August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect, introducing mandatory transparency obligations on businesses that use AI to interact with customers, generate content, or produce synthetic media. For organisations operating […]
When AI Can Fake a Face, How Do You Know It’s Really a Human?
When AI Can Fake a Face, How Do You Know It’s Really a Human? Passwords were never designed to prove who you are. They were designed to prove that someone knows a string of characters. For most of the history of the web, that was close enough. It is no longer close enough. AI-generated faces […]