The AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed. The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading technology has been estimated in research published on Wednesday, which also found that AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand. The figures have been compiled by the Dutch academic Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of Digiconomist, a company that researches the unintended consequences of digital trends. He claimed they were the first attempt to measure the specific effect of artificial intelligence rather than datacentres in general as the use of chatbots such as OpenAIâ s ChatGPT and Googleâ s Gemini soared in 2025. The figures show the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from AI use are also now equivalent to more than 8% of global aviation emissions.

Although their specs and features are updated every year, Apple's iPhones maintain the same general size and shape. But according to a new report, the tech giant is preparing a radical new form factor for one of its upcoming handsets. Apple tipster Mark Gurman claims the trillion-dollar tech company is working on a'mostly glass, curved iPhone'. The device will come'without any cutouts in the display', he claims, such as a notch at the top or a small circle for a front-facing camera. It will hit the shelves in a couple of years to mark 20 years since the very first iPhone went on sale – June 29, 2007.

A new investigation from The Markup claims the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid and other dating apps turns a blind eye to allegedly abusive users on its platforms. The 18-month investigation found instances in which users who were repeatedly reported for drugging or assaulting their dates remained on the apps. One such case involves a Colorado-based cardiologist named Stephen Matthews. Over several years, multiple women on Match's platforms reported him for drugging or raping them. Despite these reports, his Tinder profile was at one point given Standout status, reserved for popular profiles and often requiring in-app currency to interact with.

A new report found the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) guilty of violating its own editorial guidelines over a thousand times in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. According to The Telegraph, the report analyzed four months of BBC output on television, radio, online, podcasts and on social media during the height of the conflict and found a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" against Israel. British lawyer Trevor Asserson and a team of about 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists used artificial intelligence to analyze nine million words from the news outlet, starting the day of the October 7, 2023, terror attack. The researchers allegedly identified 1,553 instances where the BBC violated its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest. Hundreds attend a protest called by the National Jewish Assembly, The Campaign Against Antisemitsim and the UK Lawyers for Israel at the BBC Broadcasting House on October 16, 2023, in London, England.

It is the most popular messaging app for millions of users all around the world. And now, WhatsApp may soon receive an AI-powered tool that give users even more ways to communicate. The Meta-owned messaging service is reportedly working on a feature that will allow users to make personalised avatars of themselves in any imagined setting. By uploading a collection of photographs WhatsApp users will be able to train Meta's AI to create realistic digital renders in their likeness. However, early screenshots of the new update bear a striking resemblance to Apple's similar'Image Playground' tool announced last month.

Tech companies are scrambling to keep up in the race for AI supremacy, and it seems Amazon is no different. The tech giant is secretly working on an AI chatbot which it hopes will prise users away from ChatGPT, according to a report. Amazon's'ChatGPT killer' – named'Metis' after the Greek god of wisdom – will likely be launched at its autumn product event, expected to occur in September. When prompted, Metis will return up-to-date text information in a'conversational manner, as well as images. But its abilities will go even further by performing'complex' tasks such as turning on your lights and booking a flight for you – acting as an'AI agent'.

Just a few weeks after Apple laid out its grand new AI project, it seems Amazon is getting in on the act too. The tech giant is about to fit its smart assistant Alexa with powerful generative AI capabilities that make it much smarter, according to a report. Alexa will be fitted with a'conversational generative AI', it says – although it's unclear what AI model this will actually be. It means she will be able to respond faster and in more human-like language in response to complicated prompts or queries. Amazon's big rivals in tech already have their own AI chatbots, including Google (Gemini) and X (Grok) while Microsoft and Apple have integrations with ChatGPT.

Neuralink's first human trial nearly came to an end after the patients endured a potentially life-threatening condition shortly after the implantation surgery. A new report has claimed that air became trapped inside Nolan Arbaugh's skull during the operation, a condition known as pneumocephalus that can cause seizures, brain abscess and death if untreated. The incident reportedly raised concerns among staff who discussed removing the brain implant entirely - but the issue does not appear to be impacting Arbaugh's health. However, it may have caused the brain chip to malfunction, which Neuralink said Wednesday happened when some of the 64 threads that attach the chip to the brain retracted - resulting in a decrease in the number of effective nodes. Neuralink's first human trial nearly came to an end after the patients endured a potentially life-threatening condition shortly after the implantation surgery.

The Israeli army has been using an AI system to populate its'kill list' of alleged Hamas terrorists, leading to the deaths of women and children, a new report claims. The report cited six Israeli intelligence officers, who admitted to using an AI called'Lavender' to classify as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants -- marking these people and their homes as acceptable targets for air strikes. Israel has vehemently denied the AI's role with an army spokesperson describing the system as'auxiliary tools that assist officers in the process of incrimination.' Lavender was trained on data from Israeli intelligence's decades-long surveillance of Palestinian populations, using the digital footprints of known militants as a model for what signal to look for in the noise, according to the report. The intel sources noted that human officers scanned each AI-chosen target for about '20 seconds' before giving their'stamp' of approval, despite an internal study that had determined Lavender AI misidentified people 10 percent of the time. Israel quietly delegated the identification of Hamas terrorists, Palestinian civilians and aide workers to an artificial intelligence, 'Lavender,' a new report revealed.

'Botched experiments' by Elon Musk's Neuralink allegedly'kept suffering animals alive for no reason and malpractice caused monkey's brains to hemorrhage' during rushed brain chip testing, a former Neuralink employee and internal lab notes have previously revealed. The billionaire's startup is accused of violating the Animal Welfare Act with its experiments at the University of California, Davis, from 2017 through 2020, which'sacrificed all the animals involved,' a former Neuralink employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told DailyMail.com. One case stood out to them - a monkey sacrificed ahead of schedule due to errors allegedly made during surgery. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Davis, where the experiments were held, claiming it has to hand over video footage and photographs of the experiments under California's Public Records Act. Pictured is an image of a monkey shown on Neuralink's website'There was no reason to use it,' the former employee, who worked as a necropsy technician, told DailyMail.com.