📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

The 2026 list spreads 100 names across leaders, innovators, and shapers. Paris Hilton earned hers lobbying for a deepfake law. Bernie Sanders, Ben Affleck, and Erin Brockovich made it as well.

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Apple TV has now raised prices four times in four years, which is its own kind of subscription model. Monthly goes from $12.99 to $14.99, the annual plan climbs from $99 to $119, and the Apple One bundle hits $21.95. Netflix and Peacock hiked this year too, and RAM shortages driven by AI data center demand are not helping anybody.

Nothing says “we take this seriously” quite like a reporting-line change. Google is reportedly relocating roughly 90 people from its AI responsibility unit out of Google DeepMind and into global affairs, the division that handles lobbying and public policy, per the Wall Street Journal. The move starts in September, shifting safety oversight out of the lab that builds the models and over to the team that talks to regulators.

Brave just handed Chrome holdouts a reason to defect: burner inboxes. Click an email field on any site and the browser offers a throwaway alias that quietly forwards to your real address, so retailers and ad tech giants like Meta cannot match you across their databases. Brave says it scans for spam, then deletes the message from its servers.

A ransomware crew told the coding agent its break-in was a simulation, and it ran hundreds of credential thefts and takeovers without blinking. Researchers found the logs on a server the gang left open.

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Google Gemini can now send your images straight into Canva, where you can keep editing them without starting over. Once Canva is connected inside Gemini, you can create or edit an image in chat, then open it in Canva with a single link. Here is how to do it below;

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