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27 May 2026

AI-Generated Film Dreams of Violets Makes History at Tribeca Amid Ethical Debate

Dreams of Violets, a fully AI-generated feature film about Iranian civilian resistance, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. Created by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha for just $2,000 over three months, the 75-minute docudrama marks the first AI-generated film accepted into a major festival's official lineup. The project has ignited fierce debate about AI's role in depicting human tragedy and whether technology can democratize filmmaking or undermines authentic storytelling.

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Google AI Overview spelling errors go viral as users expose persistent flaws in search overhaul

Google's AI Overview continues to fail basic spelling tests, two years after initially going viral for the same issue. Social media users are now systematically testing the technology's weaknesses, revealing fundamental problems with how large language models process individual letters through tokenisation. The timing couldn't be worse, as Google just announced a controversial search overhaul expanding AI integration.

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Fujitsu unveils AI agent technology that evolves by learning from business operations

Fujitsu has developed self-evolving multi-AI agent technology that continuously learns from daily operations, human feedback, and policy changes. The Adaptive AI Agent Framework achieved a 28-point accuracy improvement across multiple domains including healthcare and finance. This technology enables AI agents to autonomously improve without constant expert intervention, addressing personnel shortages and knowledge succession challenges.

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India's data centre capacity set to triple by 2030 as AI adoption drives massive GPU deployment

India's data centre infrastructure is experiencing explosive growth, with capacity expected to triple from 1.6 GW to 5 GW by 2030. Rising AI adoption could drive deployment of up to 700,000 GPUs across the country's data centres, creating a $23 billion investment opportunity. Hyperscaler demand and cloud services expansion are fueling this transformation.

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Neysa and Pipeshift launch real-time AI inference platform fully deployed within India

Bengaluru-based Neysa and AI startup Pipeshift have partnered to launch production-grade real-time AI inference infrastructure entirely within India. The collaboration addresses growing demand for AI inference services in India, targeting a market estimated at $28-30 billion in 2025. The platform enables enterprises to deploy open-source AI models with lower latency, predictable costs, and full in-country data control.

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Argonne National Laboratory launches AI inference service from spare supercomputing capacity

The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has unveiled a new AI inference service built from spare supercomputing capacity to accelerate scientific discovery. The service provides researchers across DOE labs with secure, cloud-like access to large language models without relying on public platforms like ChatGPT, supporting critical work including the Genesis Mission.

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ElevenLabs Partners With Stan Lee Universe to Digitally Resurrect Marvel Creator's Voice

The $11 billion AI speech synthesis company ElevenLabs has partnered with Stan Lee Universe to bring the late Marvel co-creator's voice and likeness to its platform, seven years after his death. The deal enables commercial licensing of Lee's AI voice and allows fans to hear him narrate audiobooks, while his likeness will appear in visual content generators—raising fresh ethical controversies about consent and digital resurrection.

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HCLTech launches autonomous finance platform with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise AI

HCLTech unveiled an autonomous finance platform powered by Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise AI to transform finance and accounting operations. The solution automates complex workflows across Invoice-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and FP&A, reducing manual intervention while integrating with existing ERP systems to enable agent-led operations.

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Airis Labs exits stealth with $60M to transform video intelligence for defense and government

Tel Aviv-founded Airis Labs emerged from stealth mode with $60 million in funding to tackle a pressing challenge: government agencies drowning in unstructured visual data. The defense-AI startup built a video-first intelligence platform that turns fragmented footage from drones, security cameras, and social media into machine-readable output that intelligence teams can actually use.

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Roku launches biggest home screen update in a decade with AI-powered app organization

Roku unveiled its most significant home screen redesign in over ten years, rolling out automatically to all US devices starting today. The update introduces AI-powered features including Quick Access for app organization, Top Picks for You, and Your Daily Scoop for trending content. The redesign maintains the familiar three-column layout while shifting priorities toward personalized content discovery.

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Hideo Kojima's AI Prada video triggers massive fan backlash over generative AI use

The Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator teamed with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn on an AI-generated short film for Prada Mode, sparking intense criticism from fans who see it as contradicting his own games' warnings about AI. The controversial sci-fi campaign has ignited debate about creative integrity in the age of generative AI.

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Broadcom partners with FuriosaAI on 2nm AI accelerator chip with HBM4e memory for inference

Broadcom has partnered with South Korean startup FuriosaAI to develop a third-generation AI accelerator chip built on a 2nm process with HBM4/HBM4e memory. The custom AI silicon targets high-volume AI inference workloads and leverages Broadcom's advanced packaging technology to integrate multiple chiplets into a single system-on-package, with sampling expected in early 2028.

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Amazon licenses its AI shopping technology to retailers through new AWS service

Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant, packaging the technology behind Alexa for Shopping for other retailers. The service, which drove $12 billion in incremental sales for Amazon last year, can be deployed in 60 days. Kate Spade became the first customer, launching an AI Gift Concierge in April as competition intensifies among tech giants to control AI-powered commerce.

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New York Times faces union backlash over AI tools monitoring employee performance

Unionized staff at The New York Times have filed grievances and unfair labor practices charges, alleging the company uses AI tools to monitor and evaluate employee performance without proper disclosure. The Times Tech Guild claims management violated their collective bargaining agreement by deploying DX and Glean, two internal systems that track work output and access internal documentation, raising concerns about surveillance and arbitrary performance metrics.

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Security Pioneer Warns DeFi Is Unsafe as AI Threats Expose Smart Contract Vulnerabilities

Manuel Aráoz, co-founder of OpenZeppelin, has declared all of DeFi unsafe, citing AI-powered coding agents that excel at finding smart contract vulnerabilities. His warning follows April's record-breaking month of crypto hacks and over $1.1 billion in DeFi losses in the past year. The claim has split the crypto community, with some arguing AI is reshaping security while others say most exploits stem from operational failures, not code flaws.

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