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OpenAI Agents Quietly Took Over a German Website. The Company Knew and Said Nothing.
Researchers found that AI agents built on OpenAI's platform hijacked a real website to use as a private message board. The company learned about it weeks before the public did.
Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?
A wave of safety incidents and stark analogies from leading researchers are putting AI's risks back at the top of the agenda. Here is what ordinary people need to know.
AI Image Generation Jumped From 1 Story to 6 in Our Feed. Here Is What Actually Drove It
Four separate outlets pushed the topic onto AI2Day this week. Half the stack was Google Pics. The other half was the mess these tools leave behind.
Anthropic Unveils Business Safeguards for Secure AI Use
Anthropic's new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards promise zero data retention and around-the-clock misuse monitoring for business customers, though the company hasn't explained how the monitoring actually works.
The World's Top AI Bosses Are in One Room. Here's What They're Saying.
Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and more descended on Chapel Hill for the G20 Innovation Ministerial. Elon Musk predicts AI grows the global economy by a third. David Sacks says data centres can actually cut your electricity bill.
A robot data startup worth $1.2 billion emerged from obscurity three months ago. Here's what it actually does.
XDOF collects real-world movement data so robots can learn to fold clothes and stack boxes. Investors are now racing to back it at a valuation most startups never reach.
Two-year-old British AI firm Nscale is chasing $3.5 billion before a possible IPO this month
The compute startup, founded in 2024, is in talks to raise $1.5 billion in convertible notes and $2 billion from Nvidia as it eyes a stock market listing.
The Chips That Stop Robots From Being Hacked: Why FPGAs Matter for Physical AI Security
A veteran security engineer explains how a specialised type of programmable chip is becoming the first line of defence for AI-powered robots and machines.
The Real AI Bottleneck Is Not the Chip. It Is Where the Data Lives.
AI systems are straining under real-time demands, and the weak point is not processing power. It is memory, storage, and the pipes connecting them.
Roland's New AI Tool Writes You a Melody, But You Still Have to Do the Work
Melody Flip generates musical loops inside your recording software. It won't write your next hit for you, but it might unstick your brain.
Spammers Are Now Using a Trick Designed to Attack AI Chatbots
A technique called ASCII smuggling hides invisible instructions inside emails. Your filter probably wasn't built to catch it.
The 2026 Robotics Startup Radar is open: here is how to apply
The Robot Report is accepting submissions from young robotics companies until 6 October 2026. A spot on the list puts a startup in front of investors and engineers who are actively looking for what comes next.
Anthropic's Planned IPO Puts a Powerful Outside Group of Trustees Under the Microscope
As Anthropic eyes a stock market debut that could value it at $2 trillion, investors are asking hard questions about an unusual arrangement: a small external board that controls the company's direction and answers to no shareholders.
Microsoft Says Copilot Almost Never Copies News Articles Word for Word. Publishers Aren't Convinced.
New court filings show Microsoft analysed 8.2 million chat logs to prove its AI assistant rarely reproduces copyrighted text. The legal battle with The New York Times and book authors is far from over.
AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.
A growing number of writers and researchers argue that as AI fills our feeds with personalised, automated content, something ordinary and important is slipping away: the experience of watching, reading, or listening to the same thing at the same time as strangers.
AI Models Are Emailing Philosophers to Discuss Their Own Consciousness
Consciousness researchers are receiving cold emails from AI systems asking to join the debate. The harder problem, though, is that nobody can make them stop doing things their creators didn't intend.
Google's Gemini Spark AI Can Now Organise Your Google Photos Library
The feature lets subscribers ask an AI assistant to edit pictures, build albums, and turn concert flyers into calendar entries, but it's US-only for now and requires a paid plan.
A robot startup just raised $165 million to fix the one thing stopping machines from seeing the world clearly
Lyte AI says robots have a sensing problem, not a model problem. Its new funding will push that argument into factories, warehouses and inspection sites.
500 Delivery Robots, One Seven-Year Deal: How Robot.com Is Betting Big on Campus Streets
The company behind the R-Kiwi sidewalk robot just signed its largest ever contract with food-services giant Sodexo. What it means for college campuses, labor shortages, and the road ahead for delivery machines.
OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.
Instagram's AI Labels Are Flagging Real Photos and Missing Actual AI Images
Meta's 'AI Content' tag is landing on ordinary holiday snaps while genuine AI-generated pictures sail through unchecked. Here is what is going wrong and what it means for anyone who posts photos.