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Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

Jodie Heenan says her award-winning short film Guardians of the Burrow ‘looks and feels’ real Scene: a dimly lit underground burrow. A giant Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog share the space, an unlikely duo captured in extraordinary detail. Except, they haven’t been. Guardians of the Burrow, a short “wildlife documentary” by the Australian digital content designer Jodie Heenan, is entirely AI generated. At the weekend it won a prize in the Omni international AI film festival, adjudicated by a panel led by The Crow and Dark City director – and AI advocate – Alex Proyas. Continue reading...

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UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.

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If AI Coding Could Replace Software Engineers, Why Are AI Companies Selling It?

Imagine a company created an AI system that could do everything a professional software engineer does. Not just write snippets of Python or JavaScript, but understand vague customer requirements, design complex architectures, build secure enterprise applications, deploy them to production, maintain them for years, and adapt them as business needs changed. That wouldn’t simply be […]

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Patronus AI Closes $50M in Funding to Stress-Test AI Agents in Simulated Digital Environments

Patronus AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023 by former Meta AI researchers Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Notable Capital, Lightspeed, Datadog, and Samsung. The raise brings total funding to $70 million and follows revenue growth of fifteen-fold […]

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Google’s Fourth of July Ad Places Gemini in the Room Where the Declaration of Independence Was Drafted

Google has released a Fourth of July advertisement imagining the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace and Gemini to draft the Declaration of Independence, blending historical fiction with a relatively understated pitch for the company’s AI tools. The commercial, taglined “Group project, but make it 1776,” depicts a fictionalised Thomas Jefferson collaborating with Benjamin Franklin and […]

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HSBC strategist flags renewed investor appetite for hyperscalers as AI profits materialize

Investor focus on hyperscalers signals a shift towards sustainable AI growth, emphasizing infrastructure over speculative digital assets. The post HSBC strategist flags renewed investor appetite for hyperscalers as AI profits materialize appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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AI Safety Expert Roman Yampolskiy Believes AI Has a 99.9% Chance of Wiping Out Humanity

What if the greatest technological breakthrough in human history also turned out to be the last invention humanity ever created? That question sits at the heart of Roman Yampolskiy’s worldview, and unlike many of the industry’s leading researchers, he believes the answer deserves far more attention than it receives. While Silicon Valley continues pouring hundreds […]

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Bitcoin ETFs Post First Negative Half With $5.4 Billion in Outflows, DWF Labs Says

Spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $5.4 billion in net outflows in the first half of 2026, marking their first negative half-year since launch. DWF Labs says the reversal reflects weaker crypto sentiment as capital and attention shift toward AI. DWF Labs Says AI Boom Coincides With Bitcoin ETFs’ First $5.4 Billion Half-Year Loss Spot bitcoin exchange-traded […]

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