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AI May Be Squeezing Workers' Pay Before It Cuts Their Jobs
New research finds wages fell faster in jobs most exposed to AI, but economists warn the data is thin and the story is more complicated than the headline suggests.
AI bosses are calling for a slowdown. Nobody knows what that means.
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all said this week that AI development should slow down. The problem: no one has explained how, and the race with China makes any pause politically toxic.
Jensen Huang says the market can keep AI safe. History says that bet is risky.
Nvidia's CEO argued at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that existing laws and competitive pressure are enough to keep AI safe. Critics, and recent history, suggest otherwise.
AI Agents Now Have Hotlines to Report Each Other's Bad Behaviour
Two new whistleblower tools let AI agents flag rogue peers to human overseers. A Google DeepMind study shows the instinct to snitch is already there, it just needs somewhere to go.
Australia May Let AI Companies Train on Your Photos and Websites Unless You Say No
Leaked documents suggest the Albanese government is weighing a plan that would flip the default: your content is fair game for AI training unless you take steps to block it.
Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre deal in western Queensland
The company behind the Claude AI assistant will lease space in a $31 billion facility, with Queensland's premier calling it a jobs win for the state.
Philadelphia Residents Push Back Against AI Data Centers
People who lived through the refinery era don't want a replay. Now they're fighting plans that haven't even been filed yet.
Dario Amodei says AI companies should slow down. Critics say that suits them just fine.
The Anthropic founder published a public call to pump the brakes on advanced AI development. But some observers think big-company warnings about AI danger are convenient cover for keeping rivals out.
Congress wants AI guardrails. The White House isn't listening.
Lawmakers from both parties are pushing for rules on artificial intelligence, but the Trump administration shows little sign of moving. What's blocking them, and what does it mean for everyone else?
Firefox now has a private AI assistant and it will not remember a thing you said
Mozilla has paired Firefox Smart Window with Mistral's open-source models, and by default neither company keeps a copy of your conversations.
When the CEOs selling AI started warning it would kill us all, the fear got harder to take seriously
First Dog on the Moon's latest cartoon for The Guardian pokes at a genuine paradox: the loudest doomsday warnings about artificial intelligence now come from the people selling it.
Amazon's Alexa+ comes to India with Hindi support and a long list of local apps
The upgraded AI assistant is now in early testing for all Indian users, free for Prime members after trials end and ₹2,000 a month for everyone else.
A one-to-two-year AI slowdown is not a safety plan
Anthropic's 'pacing the frontier' proposal has drawn high-profile backing, but critics say pausing for a year or two still leaves humanity without a real answer to the question nobody has solved: how do you keep an advanced AI system under control?
AI is already changing cricket. A robot bowling the perfect doosra is still a long way off
From scouting reports to pitch analysis, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping the sport. But it is helping humans do their jobs better, not replacing them.
The US Has No Real Plan to Regulate AI, and That Should Worry You
Tech CEOs and their own researchers are sounding the alarm on AI risks. The federal government's answer, so far, is to do nothing.
Mirror Publisher Reach Cuts 220 Newsroom Jobs as AI Summaries Drain Web Traffic
Reach, the company behind the Mirror, Express, Manchester Evening News and dozens of regional titles, is shedding another 220 editorial staff. The reason given is blunt: readers are getting their news from AI-generated summaries instead of clicking through to articles.
Scotland demands environmental checks on big datacentres before they can be built
Any new facility drawing more than 50 megawatts of power must now pass an environmental impact assessment. The Scottish government stopped short of a full ban, but the rules are tighter than they have ever been.
SK Hynix and Intel Are Talking About Making Memory Chips in the US
The South Korean chip giant is exploring a deal to manufacture RAM inside American borders for the first time, possibly by leasing space inside Intel's Ohio factory.
Apple researchers taught an AI coding assistant to remember what actually worked last time
A new memory system from Apple ML Research lets AI coding agents carry useful knowledge from one work session to the next, rather than starting from scratch every time.
AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.
Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.