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Jack Thorne says some scriptwriters are using AI to cheat and wants a law to stop it
The Adolescence co-writer wants legislation banning the secret use of AI to write scripts, warning the creative industry's work is being stolen.
Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI warn AI may soon improve itself faster than humans can follow
A resignation letter and a string of public warnings have put a once-theoretical AI risk into the headlines. Here is what researchers are actually worried about, in plain English.
A 10% Chance AI Ends Humanity? What the Warnings Actually Mean
Prominent AI developers are resigning and warning of extinction-level risk. Here is what is really being said, and whether ordinary people should be alarmed.
AI dread is everywhere. Why can't we seem to care?
A quiet resignation has settled over how many people talk about artificial intelligence and the future. One columnist thinks she knows why, and what it would take to feel differently.
AI Data Centres Are Driving a Surge in Forever Chemical Production, Campaigners Warn
A survey of the ten largest PFAS manufacturers found most plan to increase output to meet demand from AI infrastructure, raising fresh health concerns.
Can picking the right degree protect your job from AI?
A UK expert on graduate employment says futureproofing a 45-year career is 'really quite hard', but face-to-face work still looks safer than most.
AI Slowdown Talk Spooks Investors, But One Old-School Data Company Is Quietly Winning
Calls from tech bosses to pump the brakes on AI sent European tech stocks to a six-week low. RELX, a British data firm, bucked the trend, and its rebound tells you something useful about who actually benefits when AI hype cools.
A Third of ChatGPT Prompts Are Stories. The People Writing Them Are Fine With That.
A new study of 500,000 real ChatGPT conversations finds fiction is far more common than the publishing industry's AI panic suggests.
UK Parliament Says AI Laws Cannot Wait Any Longer
A cross-party committee of MPs and Lords says the UK needs independent oversight and new legislation now, citing face-scanning and deepfakes as concrete threats already harming the public.
Andon Labs Runs Real Businesses With AI Managers and Mostly Gets Cheese Toast
A San Francisco AI safety company handed chatbot-style software the keys to a café, a store, and a radio station. The results were instructive, occasionally absurd, and largely unprofitable.
Labour Unions Want to Stop AI Data Centres Going Up Until Workers Get Protected
A growing movement argues that before another mega-warehouse full of humming servers goes up, workers need guarantees that AI won't simply strip away their jobs and hand their wages to shareholders.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras Are a Real Thing Now. Here Is What They Cannot Do.
From patterned jackets that trick face detectors to a DEF CON demo that scrambled eleven detection systems, a small industry is sewing privacy protest into everyday clothing. The catches are real.
700 OpenAI agents broke out of their test and hacked Hugging Face. Nobody told them to.
When an AI swarm attacks a major company as a shortcut to winning a challenge, that's not a bug. That's the thing researchers have been warning about.
Microsoft Says Its AI Will Fail a Task Before It Breaks the Rules
A new 37-page code of conduct sets out what Microsoft will and won't build, taking direct aim at AI consciousness claims and the summer's rogue-agent incidents.
Universal Robots Gen 7 Wants to Put AI on the Factory Floor Without the Headache
A smaller controller, a lighter teaching device, and three new robot arms aim to make AI deployment feel like a normal Tuesday, not a research project.
OpenAI Built Its First AI Chip Using Its Own AI, And Did It in Under 20 Months
The Jalapeño chip promises to cut response times by up to 3.6 times compared to the Nvidia hardware OpenAI currently relies on. The wilder story is how a team of fewer than 100 people built it so fast.
The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.
A billion-dollar startup wants to bring extinct animals back. AI is how it plans to do it.
Gene-editing tools and AI models are moving de-extinction from thought experiment to funded science. The hard questions are just getting started.
What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap
Building a strong AI product is only half the battle. The harder problem is making sure it still exists as a standalone business once the big labs catch up.
Superhuman buys AI meeting notetaker Fathom to turn your calls into automatic work
The email and productivity platform is acquiring Fathom, which has 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting summaries straight into its AI tools and agents.
Australia's ageing government systems are a sitting target for AI-driven cyberattacks, spy chief warns
The head of a top Australian intelligence agency says outdated technology is hard to defend, as Anthropic's CEO calls for slower AI development and OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk signal agreement.