AI News from April 26, 2026

London's Metropolitan Police is investigating hundreds of officers following the deployment of a Palantir AI surveillance tool, raising civil liberties concerns.

Facing AI-driven layoffs and fewer entry-level roles, Gen Z workers are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship to future-proof their careers.

A global survey of nearly 38,000 workers finds that only one-third of the most active AI users feel confident their jobs are secure amid rapid automation.

A new AI film festival at Cannes sparks debate as the main competition bans AI-generated films, highlighting tensions between tradition and technology in filmmaking.

UK ministries are divided over how to balance the country's clean energy goals against the massive power requirements of AI data centres.

The AI boom's insatiable demand for data center power is straining energy infrastructure and forcing a rethink of how electricity is generated and distributed.

Meta is launching a dedicated superintelligence research lab while cutting roughly 8,000 employees to redirect resources toward AI ambitions.

As AI labs raise prices, enterprise spending on AI could shift from a competitive advantage to a financial liability, Axios reports.

Top enterprise software executives are leaving major firms for OpenAI, driven by AI disruption fears and larger compensation packages.

Chinese autonomous driving developer DeepRoute.ai says more than 300,000 cars are now equipped with its advanced driver assistance system.

Elon Musk has dropped fraud claims against OpenAI, co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, narrowing the scope of his ongoing lawsuit.

Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.6-27B outperforms its 15x larger predecessor on most coding benchmarks with only 27 billion parameters.