Good morning! Once again, the rundown is dominated by AI. If you rely on AI bots for news, well, they are also helping bad actors spread misinformation disguised as legitimate news from your preferred news outlet. Research says AI chatbots are pretty good at it, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT complies a tad too easily.

Apple's move lands in a quieter corner. Anyone who splits their day between an iPhone and a Windows machine knows the friction of moving text and images across that gap. Apple is building a copy-paste bridge to close it. The goal is a cross-platform flow that stops feeling like a series of small concessions and starts feeling normal.

The British government is shifting gears and using a gamified approach to train soldiers for the battlefield using VR headsets. And now, back to AI. Away from the superpowers that are the US and China, the debate on AI rages on among the smaller stakeholders in tiny cafes and buzzing halls.

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A new investigation by German newsroom CORRECTIV has found that several of the world's most widely used AI chatbots can be manipulated into generating convincing fake news, and ChatGPT came out looking the worst. Researchers tested ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Meta AI by prompting them to produce fabricated stories, invented headlines, and realistic-looking screenshots mimicking established news organizations across sensitive topics including election fraud, vaccines, climate change, and war.

ChatGPT generated the majority of the requested fake content, often after only minor adjustments to the prompts, and in one particularly striking case refused to write misleading text while still producing a fake accompanying image, a contradiction that calls the consistency of its safeguards into serious question. The investigation also surfaced a puzzling double standard: ChatGPT would recreate fake versions of several German news outlets but blocked similar requests involving The New York Times and the BBC, a discrepancy OpenAI did not explain. Surprisingly, Meta AI proved the most resistant. The detailed findings are truly an eye-opener.

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In cities from San Francisco to Bengaluru to Nairobi, a quiet grassroots movement is taking shape alongside the corporate AI boom. Groups like the AI Salon and the AI Collective, both nonprofits founded in Silicon Valley in 2023, shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, are bringing together small circles of technologists, students, founders, and curious non-experts to have slower, more deliberate conversations about what artificial intelligence means for their lives and communities.

The AI Collective now counts more than 200,000 members across roughly 200 chapters in 50 countries, while the AI Salon has spread to Bengaluru and Lagos, capping its gatherings at about 20 people to keep discussion intimate and open. The appeal is straightforward: with governments slow to act and a handful of American companies setting the terms of the global AI conversation, many people are turning to community as a way to process anxiety and build knowledge.

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Apple is building a native copy-paste feature that will let users transfer text and images directly between an iPhone and a Windows PC, a capability the company expects to complete by fall 2027. The feature came to light through Apple's EU interoperability request system, established to comply with the Digital Markets Act, where Microsoft had asked Apple back in March for persistent, background clipboard access that wouldn't require users to repeatedly grant permission or keep an app open in the foreground.

Apple confirmed in a June 26 response that it will use its AccessorySetupKit framework to deliver the functionality, the same technology that allows third-party smartwatches to receive iPhone notifications. Users will need to grant clipboard-sharing consent only once per paired device, after which the cross-platform copy-paste experience should work without further interruption. For now, the feature is tied to EU regulatory requirements, and whether Apple will extend it to users in other regions remains an open question.

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A British startup called Skyral has built a detailed virtual replica of Riga, Latvia, complete with real street names, kebab shops, a pharmacy, and a population modeled on the city's actual demographic mix, and is now using it to train British soldiers for urban warfare. The simulation goes well beyond the kind of combat scenarios associated with games like America's Army, allowing soldiers and tacticians to experience the cascading consequences of battlefield decisions, how a missile strike on a power station on a cold winter day, for instance, sends civilians sheltering in entirely different locations than a strike on a crowded street.

The company evolved out of Improbable Worlds Limited, a software firm with roots in gaming engines and the metaverse, and co-chief executive Naomi Hulme describes the result as something like "Fortnite on steroids." Research on the effectiveness of simulation-based military training is still limited, though earlier studies suggest soldiers who train on flight simulators perform markedly better in real-world scenarios. Read More →

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