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AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says

The Guardian Technology Nov 1, 2026, 5:00 PM (1 hour ago)

Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally…

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Google’s Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit and sends a haiku home

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Palantir CTO tells Stratechery he doesn’t regret working with Anthropic

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Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and drops Ultra’s five-hour limit

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AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy

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Google in talks to join Trump’s Golden Dome programme, Bloomberg reports

Alphabet’s Google is in talks with the US Defense Department to help protect the data behind Golden Dome, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Sana Pashankar and Kiel Porter cited people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are not public.

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