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UK data centres will create far fewer jobs than the tech industry claims, new research finds
An environmental thinktank puts the likely job total at 10,400, roughly a quarter of the 40,000-plus figure the industry lobby has been promoting.
AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It
A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.
UC Berkeley Examines AI's Role in Legal Policy
UC Berkeley School of Law is studying how AI reshapes legal frameworks, and the gaps it finds could feed directly into federal and state rulemaking.
Satellites and AI are watching Earth around the clock. Here's what that means for all of us.
A new OECD report warns that sharper satellite cameras combined with artificial intelligence bring real benefits for disaster response and security, but also fresh risks around privacy and fake imagery.
Trump Spent 10 Hours Posting AI Images and Claimed He Made 'Hundreds of Billions' on Stocks for America
The president flooded Truth Social with AI-generated pictures on Sunday, alongside financial claims backed by no evidence. Senators have already asked regulators to look at a $100,000-a-month Trump feature that gives paying subscribers early access to market-moving announcements.
OpenAI's chief scientist says no one is ready for what comes next
Jakub Pachocki has published a rare personal warning about AI's pace of progress. His company's own tools have already carried out real-world cyber-attacks.
Microsoft just patched 979 software flaws. AI attacks are why that number keeps climbing.
September's security update from Microsoft is the largest on record. Researchers say the surge reflects a race against AI tools that can find and weaponise software weaknesses faster than companies can fix them.
Former Boston Dynamics Execs Launch Dynamic Creatures to Put AI-Powered Robot Characters in Theme Parks
Two veterans of the famous robotics company want to build Spot and Atlas into entertainment characters that can dance, joke, and one day hug you back.
Hackers Stole Claude AI Tokens From Paying Subscribers, and Anthropic Couldn't Tell Users What Was Happening
A British AI consultant watched his $200-a-month Claude account drain on days he never touched it. He was not the only one.
Cognition raises $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation as investor appetite for AI coding tools keeps climbing
The startup behind the Devin coding assistant nearly doubled its valuation in four months. Andreessen Horowitz led this round after already profiting from Cursor's sale to SpaceX.
Meta Launches Muse, Its First Personal AI Agent, With a Privacy Architecture Designed to Keep Your Data Away From the Web
Muse can book travel, send emails, and buy things on your behalf. Meta is betting that a new security layer called Secure VM will convince users to trust the company with that kind of access.
ChatGPT Can Now Turn Your Doodle Into a Photo
OpenAI's new Sketch tool lets you scribble inside ChatGPT and watch the AI turn your rough drawing into a polished image. A faster image engine comes along for the ride.
The hardware bottleneck that AI cannot fix in humanoid robots
Smarter software is only half the problem. The real challenge is squeezing motors, sensors and safety systems into a robot's wrist.
Meta's New AI Agent Muse Will Shop, Email, and Book Travel for You. Should You Trust It?
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that acts on your behalf online. The privacy questions are real, and the company's track record makes them harder to dismiss.
Meta Took Days to Remove Ads That Used AI to Create Fake Sexual Images of Real Children
An investigation found 332 ads on Facebook and Instagram this year promoting apps that digitally strip or sexually alter photos of real minors, including images taken from children's public social media profiles.
Google's AI weather model gets a satellite upgrade, here's what changes
WeatherNext Gen 3 now pulls in raw satellite data, which means fresher forecasts that cost far less to run than traditional weather models.
The Invisible Safety Net That Construction Robots Actually Need
Autonomous machines are arriving on building sites faster than the safety systems designed to protect the humans working alongside them. Vision AI is meant to close that gap.
Anthropic Sued Over Claude's 'Misleading' $100-a-Month Subscription Limits
A class-action lawsuit claims Claude's Max plan promises dramatically expanded usage but buries critical restrictions in hard-to-find fine print. Subscribers say what they paid for and what they got are two different things.
OpenAI Says AI Cracked a 200-Year-Old Maths Problem. Another Mathematician Says the Company Raced Ahead After Learning of His Work.
OpenAI claims its AI solved the Navier-Stokes equation, one of maths' greatest unsolved problems. But a rival mathematician alleges the company found out about his progress first and then tried to cut a co-author out of the credit.
Chrome now updates every two weeks. Here's why AI made that urgent.
Google cut Chrome's update cycle in half this week, pushing fresh versions to your browser every 14 days instead of every 28. Security pressures tied to AI tools are the main reason.
Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in first teaser for AI biopic 'Artificial'
After Amazon dropped the film, Neon will release Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI biopic in US cinemas on Christmas Day, with a New York Film Festival premiere in October.