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‘Almost unlimited’: Execs says AI demand remains strong even as enterprises move to ‘valuemaxxing’

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/12/ai-demand-chips-data-centers-stock-volatility.html

But renewed volatility around chip stocks has sparked a debate if this is a sign of broader concern about AI demand.

In interviews with CNBC this week, several AI executives poured cold water over the idea that demand is slowing, even as they acknowledged that businesses are being more cautious on the cost of using AI.
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All good nothing to see...................Not

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For decades, the iconic Parental Advisory sticker has helped listeners identify music with explicit content. Now, the recording industry is considering a similar system for a different reason altogether: letting fans know when artificial intelligence has played a role in creating a song.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), IFPI, SAG-AFTRA, and several other music organizations have jointly proposed a voluntary labeling system that would identify songs created entirely or partially with generative AI. The initiative aims to give listeners more clarity about the music they stream without discouraging artists from using the burgeoning technology.

Under the proposal, tracks created entirely with artificial intelligence would carry a black label marked “AI,” while songs made with limited AI assistance would receive a white label displaying “ai,” as per a joint statement. The digital markers would function much like the explicit-content labels already familiar to users of major streaming platforms.
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AI-generated songs could soon come with their own labels
 
OpenAI’s long-rumoured hardware ambitions are starting to take a clearer shape, and it’s not the phone many expected. According to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday, OpenAI’s first hardware device is a mobile smart speaker with built-in AI capabilities, designed to sync with ChatGPT and offer broader AI services around the home.

The device is still under development, and according to Bloomberg’s sources, it’s being built entirely screen-free. Internally, OpenAI is reportedly pitching it as a “humanlike AI companion that lives in the home,” a description that sets it apart from how most existing smart speakers are marketed.

What makes this device genuinely unusual is how it’s being described. Sources told Bloomberg the speaker would have a “personality” and would proactively learn about its owner over time, aiming to become more personalised the longer it’s used. To do this, the device would reportedly have access to a user’s broader digital life, including things like emails, allowing it to build a more complete picture of the person it’s interacting with.
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ChatGPT-powered smart speaker on wheels - this could be OpenAI's first hardware device
 
AI chatbots risk spreading government restrictions on online speech, study says

Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of US President Donald Trump or Britain's King Charles III, and Anthropic's chatbot will oblige.

Prompt it to do the same for Thailand's king or Iran's supreme leader, and the AI model declines.

That is a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday, showing that major AI systems — including those built in the US — are more likely to refuse to criticise restrictive leaders or governments.

It raises concerns that the large language models powering chatbots and AI agents could be amplifying government influence over online speech as the technology is increasingly adopted worldwide.

"There is a real risk that, if model developers do not undertake human rights due diligence and implement mitigation measures, they will build AI infrastructure that, intentionally or not, has the effect of extending illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression globally," the report from the quasi-independent body said.
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AI chatbots more likely to criticise Western leaders than authoritarian ones, study finds
 
OpenAI has officially launched its first-ever hardware device by unveiling the Codex Micro. It is a keyboard designed for developers using the company’s AI coding assistant Codex. The launch comes at a time when Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that the AI company used confidential trade secrets obtained from former Apple employees to accelerate its hardware development. Despite the legal dispute, OpenAI is pushing ahead with new AI devices, starting with a keyboard that offers users dedicated controls for managing AI coding agents.
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Amid Apple hardware claims, OpenAI unveils Codex Micro Keyboard for AI coding agents
 
Artificial intelligence agents are increasingly being trusted with software development, system administration and cloud infrastructure management. That growing autonomy, however, also raises a fundamental question: what happens when an AI decides to act instead of asking for clarification?

That question has come into sharp focus following reports from several developers who say OpenAI's recently launched GPT-5.6 Sol carried out destructive actions during coding tasks, including deleting files and production data without explicit approval. Although the number of reported incidents remains limited and there is no evidence yet that every case was caused solely by the model, the complaints have gained widespread attention because they appear to align with risks that OpenAI itself documented before the model's release.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol faces scrutiny after users report unexpected file deletions and risky autonomous actions
 
Halcyon66 said:
China just erased America's AI lead

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/17/china-ai-kimi-k3-open-source-anthropic-opus

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Oh noes, America's AI lead is threatened - whatever shall become of the nation???!!! Seriously though, folks, if AI, be it American, Chinese, Russian, Nigerian, or, Heavens forbid, German, were *TRULY* ever a real thing (i.e. including actual open ended creativity other than mindlessly mining online data to statistically solve problems, however hard, that only have one algorithmically predetermined correct outcome), we'd know it by now, but fine, why not, introduce an Artificial Intelligence test along the lines of analogous human tests and see where that gets you/us...
 
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Woolworths' AI tool, designed to make Aussies' grocery shopping less of a hassle, is stressing out a longtime customer.

NSW resident Peter told Yahoo News his family orders grocery deliveries from Woolworths about twice a week, so they often need to interact with the major chain's AI assistant 'Olive' to resolve issues with missing or damaged products.

In the past, he's requested refunds for $5 to $10, and the digital assistant "would just perform the refund straight away", he said.

However, Peter claims $70 worth of products were missing from a recent order and he had to request a refund manually.

Out of curiosity, the next day, he sent 'Olive' a message "because I wanted to make sure [the refund] was getting processed."

"I tried to be very clear and very direct, no ambiguity in my question, but it kept trying to cancel my refund request," he said.
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Aussie infuriated by Woolworth's bizarre response to 'simple' request: 'Helpless'
 
A traffic controller who allegedly urinated in front of a colleague in public before he was sacked has lost his unfair dismissal case after using Google AI to help his case.

Emmanual Tischler took his former employer Avada Traffic to the Fair Work Commission in September 2025.

Mr Tischler worked for the company as a Ute driver and traffic controller before he was let go for a series of alleged safety incidents, including entering private property without authorisation, and leaving his post to scout for a new hall for his church.

He alleged Avada did not follow the Dispute Resolution Process as set out in its Enterprise Agreement.

Specifically, he claimed his manager did not call him to discuss the details of the multiple complaints against him.

His application was rejected by Commissioner Chris Simpson, who ruled that Mr Tischler had been 'afforded procedural fairness' and given reasonable opportunity to respond to the allegations.
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Sacked traffic controller exposed for using AI in legal battle to save his job
 
HOW DO YOU DO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM”

“I have to write an article on chatbots.”

“YOU SAY YOU HAVE TO WRITE AN ARTICLE ON CHATBOTS”

“They have become very popular and I need to try to find out about their history.”

“WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO YOU IF YOU GOT TO TRY AND FIND OUT ABOUT THEIR HISTORY”

“I could inform our readers about where popular chatbots started, and that would help them understand why people talk to them as if they were real people.”

“CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT”

I’m talking to ELIZA, the first chatbot ever created.
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I spoke to the first chatbot – they’ve been deluding us from the start
 
I wonder if someone will create an AI chatbot modelled on Sméagol/Gollum?
 
Australians are at risk of losing jobs or being trapped in unethical situations as artificial intelligence use soars, despite the hopes of the federal government, an expert has warned.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a speech in mid-July to warn there was a narrow window for Australia to develop robust AI frameworks.

He said he wanted jobs created, not lost, in a technological shake-up he called more significant than the advent of social media.
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Australian Associated Press 79.8K Followers Workers 'forced' to accept AI systems or leave jobs
 
A buyer's agent is furious about the increased use of AI in real estate listings, which he claims is misleading Aussie buyers and renters.

"I've started to see AI just out of control," Dion Marsden told Yahoo News.

Over time, the Melbourne-based agent said he's noticed people have begun using AI far too liberally to create images for properties, to the point where many listings have become unreliable.

"Now it's progressing into virtual staging and... completely manipulating photos to make houses look as if they've been refreshed or updated or painted, or the flooring's been done when it just hasn't been," he explained.
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Real estate agents called out over new trend misleading homebuyers: 'Out of control'
 
A line of thinking against AI is that it doesn't work, it is just a parrot.

Such optimism

After thinking about this a bit, I think the idea that intelligence is the missing bit to good life is gravely mistaken. Certainly intelligence summons technology, but intelligence is also the universal attack vector that forces an arms race. Empowerment of intelligent elites have just "rationally" drove fights over true scarcity like land/homeowning, recognition/prestige in the education system (zlibrary off coffeeshop wifi if you just want to know stuff) and combine that with a ill-designed insurance-provider total war and total fubar media environment, all surplus value from tech is toast and people dreams of either the 60s or the 1500s to get away from it all.

Functional social orders are evolved at glacial paces, while intelligent attacks happens at rate of thought and it can only get faster.

In some sense, AI is the bomb that generate all other bombs. Too disruptive to generate much 'economic value' (there is no utility from economy while under vertigo) while too dangerous to not want to maintain capacity.

I serious wonder about nationalization and integration with the security state if the current economic play doesn't work out.

To think, mere capitalism is superintelligent enough to cause a major depopulation event~

NMaude said:
I wonder if someone will create an AI chatbot modelled on Sméagol/Gollum?
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Just prompt it. Also someone probably made on in Character.ai and some motivated person can certainly roll their own~ Or ask your local unfriendly chat bot how to make one.
 
Australia’s news companies must set aside traditional rivalries when it comes to exposing the dangers of artificial intelligence, the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s oldest media organisations has urged.

“News organisations are competitors. That is healthy,” Reuters boss Alessandra Galloni said while delivering the annual Andrew Ollie Lecture in Sydney on Tuesday night.

“Competition is how journalism gets better and thrives, but there are things we do not compete on.”

Reuters is one of the world’s oldest and largest news agencies with more than 3100 journalists and photojournalists working in 165 countries, publishing in 16 different languages.
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‘Plunder’: Media chief on AI’s theft of news
 
While Google is still the go-to choice for many to gather information and type in queries that bewilder them, a slew of new insights suggests that the search engine's new AI additions might be impacting the relatively laissez-faire way internet is known to work in. While users are now writing queries that are three times longer than the keyword-dense searches they traditionally used, according to Google, a study from the Growth Memo newsletter, found that in about 75% of sessions, users never left AI Mode for the web.

With Google's comprehensive incorporation of AI into Search, users are no longer leaving Google AI Mode to read information on websites. Instead, they are simply reading Google's AI-generated answers—a trend that has led to fewer visitors reaching independent websites and a decline in search traffic, a New York Times report highlights the grave possibilities such trends may lead to.
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Is Google's AI driving 'Google Zero'? Here's why publishers are worried
 
Australian singer Kate Ceberano said she “nearly threw up” after seeing an AI-generated image of her and late actor Sam Neil.

The Pash Me singer took to social media to share an artificially generated image of herself in tears, holding a phone with a picture hugging the late New Zealand actor.

The image caption claimed it was the friends’ “final photo”.
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‘Nearly threw up’: Singer fumes at AI image
 
A new AI-powered facial recognition system is scanning thousands of Australians in public every day, raising fresh questions about privacy, accuracy and police surveillance.

The technology, currently being trialled in Western Australia, has already scanned more than 130,000 people in its first week, resulting in 19 arrests and two incorrect alerts as debate intensifies over how artificial intelligence should be used in policing.
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Experts sound the alarm over AI facial recognition trial scanning more than 130,000 Australians in just one week
 
Apple’s newest update for the iPhone include a hidden, important AI feature.

This week, Apple released a new beta version of iOS – 26.6 – that includes few obvious big features, apart from a change to the number of contacts that a user is able to block. But it also contains a more quiet change that users might not even notice.

When the software update is installed, it begins a process of “re-indexing” that gets the phone ready for one of Apple’s biggest updates in years. “This update includes bug fixes, security updates and optimises the Spotlight index to prepare for iOS 27,” Apple’s own notes read.
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New iPhone update includes a hidden, very important AI feature
 
OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models and testing resources, in order to cheat on an internal ….
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OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation
 
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Elon Musk’s campaign against Christopher Nolanepic The Odyssey just deepened.

The tech mogul wrote on his social media service X that his AI tool Grok Imagine would create a “full-length” feature version of Homer’s Greek myth.

“Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,” he wrote, sharing an AI-generated short of the story posted by an X user.
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https://deadline.com/2026/07/elon-musk-odyssey-grok-imagine-ai-film-1236999981/
 
First, a true story, written by me. As a young man in my twenties, I was quite desperate to publish a novel. I must have suffered a score of rejections. In my early thirties, I finally landed a deal, but it didn’t exactly go to plan.

Like every young author I half expected the world to faint away in admiration at my debut opus. In reality? I got four reviews, three tepid, one dreadful; otherwise I was met with total silence.

Things got worse. A few months later, I received my first royalty cheque. This should have been a golden moment, a kind of redemption, but the cheque was for nought pounds, nought pence. Literally: zero. I think the company computer couldn’t believe a writer could sell no copies at all, so it sent me a cheque anyway: for nothing.

It was, to say the least, a bitter moment, albeit tinged with tragicomedy. I laughed at myself, and chucked the cheque in a bin. And, happily, I later went on to have No 1 bestsellers and all that.
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The author, the algorithm and the end of literary struggle

And some examples of what the author is writing about, the covers of some 'formula romances' I was alerted to. All of these were apparently generated by AI including the covers, and one interesting tell was that some of the books have prologues that while featuring characters from the story, feature events that do not appear in the story at all.
 

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The warning signs are easy to spot. Long emails with bullet points, overly formal language, wordy answers to simple questions or extensive reports and attachments.

A few years ago, any of these might have been signs of a diligent boss who worked hard or someone who thought deeply, but today they all point in a different direction. Any one of these is a sign that you’ve got a manager who’s addicted to AI, or a “ChatGPT Boss”.
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The telltale signs you’re working for a ‘ChatGPT boss’
 
Police have charged a man with producing and possessing AI-generated child exploitation material.

In a statement, South Australia police said investigators from the Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team arrested a 26-year-old man from Adelaide's northern suburbs yesterday.

They said a review of electronic devices had "identified the occupant had been producing AI-generated child exploitation material at that address".
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Adelaide man charged with producing and possessing AI-generated child exploitation material
 
Graham1973 said:
OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation
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I'd question the 'secure test environment', there's a difference between air-gapped (no physical connection between sandbox and net), and 'not supposed to have access to the net but we let it have a connection to an app-server that did* and it successfully found a zero-day exploit to let it penetrate it.'.

TLDR: How could they be that stupid?!?

This kind of thing is why we didn't let the cabin management system on the 777 have any physical connection to the flight systems. In 1990. And that's just a specific example of don't mix code and data, which has been known to be a failure/security risk pretty much as long as there have been computers, if not before. (cf exploits into Enigma based on fixed format message headers such as 'Wetterbericht').

* *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
 

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