Friday, November 6, 2026
The AI stories that matter today — for people and for the economy. Picked every midnight from 22 newsrooms and communities.
Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE? Or the mutant mutts due to be developed by a startup called Warhound? Have you ever wanted to hang out with a dog with no fur, no face and a chip in its shoulder?
Philippe Jaenada told French radio that he used ChatGPT to ‘play with the reader’, after the prize removed a different book from its longlist over allegations of AI use The winner of France’s most prestigious literary prize has admitted using artificial intelligence while writing
The market has been reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the AI industry following the US mid-terms
Share index slumps 5% amid signs AI industry will face tougher regulation after Democrats’ midterm elections success The Nasdaq share index was on track for its worst day in 18 months after slumping by up to 5% on Thursday amid growing signs that the artificial intelligence indus
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
Executives at FT’s Future of AI summit admit tech industry has fuelled hostility towards its own expansion
No one at Hong Kong’s annual financial fiesta doubted the AI trade
Bill Gates, aliens and everything else we heard at the FT’s Future of AI Summit
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.
With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You can ask the chatbot "where did my money go this month," for examp
The AI-generated sci-fi film Gods Don't Give Gifts has added a bit of star power: Pop star Grimes is going to appear in the movie. Billed as "the first AI film to come to theatres," Gods Don't Give Gifts is a notable test case for the commercial potential of AI films, and it rele
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
Today, I’m talking with Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book, Where Does My Stuff Come From? The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply Chains. Willy is one of my all-time favorite Decoder gu
IIT Guwahati researchers use drones and AI to decode traffic patterns on Indian roads