AI videos of child sexual abuse surged in 2025; Grok faces probe

AI videos of child sexual abuse surged in 2025; Grok faces probe

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Tuesday, January 20, 2026This photograph taken on Jan. 13, 2025, in Toulouse shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, the American company specializing in artificial intelligence and its founder South African businessman Elon Musk. | Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Artificial…

Britain needs ‘AI stress tests’ for financial services, lawmakers say

Britain needs ‘AI stress tests’ for financial services, lawmakers say

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Britain’s financial ‌watchdogs are not doing enough to stop AI from harming consumers or destabilising markets, a group ‌of lawmakers said on Tuesday, urging regulators to move away from a “wait and see” approach ‌as the technology is deployed widely. The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England should…

AI has the power to redesign healthcare, but systems aren’t ready

AI has the power to redesign healthcare, but systems aren’t ready

While AI tools now assist with imaging interpretation, clinical documentation, risk prediction, and remote monitoring, healthcare delivery itself has not fundamentally changed. Instead, AI has been layered onto existing workflows, leaving fragmentation, inefficiency, and inequity largely intact. A new study published in the journal Bioengineering argues that this incremental approach is holding healthcare back at…

AI, Sustainability and Health: Top Food Industry Trends in 2026

AI, Sustainability and Health: Top Food Industry Trends in 2026

For the food manufacturing industry, 2025 brought tariff pressures, major acquisitions and consumers’ increasing concerns over health and wellness. FOOD ENGINEERING expects to see those themes return in 2026, in addition to advances in artificial intelligence and sustainability. We outline our reasoning below. Tariffs At the start of 2025, anxiety around the form and impact…

AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical

AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical

Taiwan’s AI server supply chain delivered broad-based growth in 2025, fueled by surging generative AI and cloud data center spending, but the biggest gains clustered around two areas: system-level integration led by original design manufacturer (ODM)/electronics…

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 review – A 40 TOPS AI accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 review – A 40 TOPS AI accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads

Raspberry Pi sent me a sample of their AI HAT+ 2 generative AI accelerator based on Hailo-10H for review. The 40 TOPS AI accelerator is advertised as being suitable for LLMs (Large Language Models) and VLM (Vision Language Models), while delivering about the same performance as the first-generation AI HAT+ (Hailo-8) for AI vision/computer vision…

Hakuhodo rolls out AI platform creating virtual consumer personas globally

Hakuhodo rolls out AI platform creating virtual consumer personas globally

Hakuhodo has rolled out its ‘Virtual Sei-katsu-sha’ (‘Virtual living person’) platform globally, as brands seek faster and more insight-driven ways to understand consumer behaviour. The AI-powered solution combines Hakuhodo’s proprietary sei-katsu-sha research, client data and marketing expertise with generative AI to create virtual consumer personas that reflect real needs, emotions and behaviours across markets. The platform…

Sentius outlines its approach to AI and unveils GSO search model – Campaign Brief

Sentius outlines its approach to AI and unveils GSO search model – Campaign Brief

January 20 2026, 11:47 am | BY Ricki Green | No Comments Sentius has outlined its stance on AI and unveiled a new tool designed for the age of conversational search. The Generative + Search Optimisation (GSO) model helps brands become recognised as authoritative sources across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google SGE, Gemini, and Perplexity….