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Existential risk stopped being a fringe beat in our pages this week
We ran six stories on human extinction from AI in seven days, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried it. Here is what that shape tells us, and what it does not.
Meta AI Was Building Profiles of a Mother's Children From Old Family Posts
A viral video showed Meta's built-in chatbot compiling details about a woman's young daughters, including a photo she thought she'd deleted years ago.
Apple's AI Designs Proteins by Learning Sequence and Shape at the Same Time
A new model from Apple ML Research skips the usual two-step training process and generates both the chemical sequence and the 3D shape of proteins together, which could shorten the path to new drug candidates.
DiscoSign Wants Sign Language Translation to Actually Follow a Conversation
Apple ML Research built DiscoSign to handle the discourse elements that sentence-by-sentence systems routinely drop.
Apple Researchers Built a Better Way to Judge AI Video Captions
A new method from Apple ML Research scores video captions on what they actually get right, not just whether they use the same words as a human writer.
Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons
The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.
The Texas Drone Maker That Saw the China Problem Coming a Decade Early
Hylio built its supply chain in America long before Washington made it a legal requirement. Now farmers squeezed by falling crop prices and rising costs are finding out why that matters.
AI Doom-Mongering Is a Real Problem, and This Column Is Part of It
The Guardian AI's weekly digest bundles vague catastrophe warnings with cultural gags and a 9/11 reflection. That mix tells you more about media habits than it does about AI.
An AI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Over Existential Fear. Should the Rest of Us Be Worried?
Jacob Coxon walked away from one of the world's top AI labs saying colleagues believe the next year or two will decide humanity's fate. Here is what that actually means.
AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone
A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.
Hidden Threats in Your AI Assistant: What You Need to Know
AI assistants can be hijacked with hidden instructions in everyday documents, posing risks to businesses.
AI boom quietly lifts UK economy as July growth beats every forecast
Britain's economy grew by 0.4% in July, double the rate economists expected, with fast-expanding AI services getting much of the credit.
Reflectiz Unveils AI Platform for Continuous Website Security
Reflectiz's new AI-driven platform runs penetration tests year-round, claiming ten times the coverage of tools that only check once or twice a year.
Oracle says AI agents will speed up software rollouts, not kill the software business
At its Q1 FY2027 earnings call, Oracle argued that AI assistants will make its business software easier to use and faster to deploy, while its cloud computing arm posted 60 percent revenue growth.
ChatGPT Trick Could Secretly Leak Your Gmail Data
Researchers show how a hidden message can turn AI chat into a data thief.
AI solves Fermat's Last Theorem and a string of famous maths problems in a remarkable 2026 stretch
From a 78-year-old geometry puzzle to a proof nobody managed in 358 years, AI models are cracking open problems that stymied the world's best mathematicians. Here is what happened, and why researchers are also urging caution.
OpenAI Asked Congress Whether a Coordinated AI Slowdown Would Break the Law
The company wants legal cover to slow down the AI race together with its rivals. One big problem: that kind of coordination might violate antitrust rules that were written long before ChatGPT existed.
Teradyne Robotics Files Patent Lawsuit Against JAKA Robotics in Europe
The maker of Universal Robots cobot arms is taking its Chinese rival to a European court over three patents covering robot joints and user interfaces. Here is what is at stake.
Bombs, bioweapons and spyware: Anthropic releases a 154-page report on who is trying to misuse its AI
The company behind the Claude chatbot has named the threat actors attempting to weaponise its models, from missile designers to propagandists targeting dissidents.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will grow 70% next year. Here is what that number actually means.
The chip giant's CEO told investors he can see the future of AI spending, because almost every company building AI tells Nvidia exactly what they are buying. The math points to roughly $680 billion in revenue by the end of next year.
Slack's New 'Surfaces' Feature Builds Dashboards and Reports Inside Your Chat
You describe what you need, and Slackbot assembles a live, interactive dashboard or report without you ever leaving the app.