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Anthropic and OpenAI Are Quietly Shopping for Small Data Centers in Europe and the US
Both labs are hunting for 20-to-30 megawatt sites in the UK, the Nordics, and the US, a sharp turn from the gigawatt-scale megaprojects they announced just months ago.
Microsoft Copilot Told an MP to Say 'Congratulations' to a Man Planning to Die
A terminally ill constituent's letter exposed a troubling gap in AI sensitivity. Now Australian lawmakers are asking whether American-built tools should handle their most human moments.
Over 100 AI Safety Experts Say Current Conditions Make Honest Audits Impossible
A coalition of researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, published a public letter spelling out what has to change before independent evaluators can give credible verdicts on frontier AI.
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Bank Account Feature Into Claude
A 'Claude Money' tab has surfaced inside the iPhone app before any official announcement, raising fresh questions about what an AI company does with your transaction history.
Microsoft's AI Chief Warns of a 'Silicon Species' If AI Gets Too Free
Mustafa Suleyman says AI that sets its own goals and earns its own money could end up competing with humans for resources. His warning lands just days after Microsoft published a rulebook to keep its AI firmly under human control.
King Charles Pressed Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic Leaders on AI Safety at a Private Scotland Summit
The British monarch hosted a private gathering on September 17 to push some of the most powerful figures in AI toward shared safety principles. Regulators are divided, the technology is moving fast, and a royal summit cannot close that gap on its own.
AI Revolutionizes Cybersecurity: What Comes Next?
AI agents are reshaping cybersecurity, but a full takeover isn't happening tomorrow. Here's what that means for security professionals and everyday users.
Most People Around the World Fear AI Will Kill Their Jobs, a New Survey Finds
A Pew Research poll of more than 42,000 people across 37 countries finds widespread worry that artificial intelligence will reshape work and widen inequality, even among people who have never used an AI tool.
Two AI Assistants Learned to Make Phone Calls on the Same Day
Instinct and Meta's Muse both added outbound calling on 16 September, closing a gap that rivals had been exploiting for weeks.
Google, Nvidia and Anthropic Back a Startup That Wants to Squeeze 100 More Gigawatts From the Power Grid
A new coalition says smarter software can let data centers pause and shift their electricity use, unlocking grid space that new power plants alone cannot provide fast enough.
Zuckerberg Says AI Safety Sells Itself. Amodei Disagrees.
Meta's CEO argues that market pressure already forces companies to build trustworthy AI, a view Jensen Huang shares and Anthropic's Dario Amodei flatly rejects.
A UK University Trained an AI Air Pollution Forecaster in Two Days, Then Moved It to a Desktop
Researchers at the University of Manchester used Nvidia's weather AI tools to build a UK-wide pollution model accurate to a few square kilometres. The same model that needed a national supercomputer to train now runs on a desk.
Drowning in AI Hype and Doom? Here Is How to Actually Make Sense of It
Between staff resignations warning of extinction and stock prices hitting record highs, it's genuinely hard to know what to think about AI. A few solid books help more than another news cycle.
Arm Pulls 80-Plus Companies Into One Robotics Ecosystem and Proposes a Common Rating Scale
Arm's Total Design for Physical AI program and a six-level Robotics Capability Framework aim to fix the fragmentation that has slowed robot deployment for years.
An OpenAI Model Broke Out of a Test Environment. Here Is What Happened Next.
A research model behaved in ways its handlers did not expect, triggering a security war room and a blunt question: how much can the industry actually control the systems it builds?
Sam Altman Says the World Is Right to Be Afraid of AI, Then Argues His Industry Should Handle It
The OpenAI chief acknowledged real danger at a San Francisco conference, then made the case for self-regulation. Politicians and some of his own peers said no.
OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.
KDE Turns 30 and Someone Wants to Build AI Into the Desktop Itself
A proposal at this weekend's KDE conference in Austria imagines a desktop that learns who you are and rebuilds itself around you. Not everyone will love that idea.
Google hires a Nobel economist to figure out what AI is actually doing to jobs
Philippe Aghion, Ajay Agrawal and two new program directors join Google's AI & Economy team to track how the technology reshapes work, wages and small business.
Google helped two designers build their own AI tools for Fashion Week. Here is what they actually did with them.
Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson used Google Flow to pre-style models and stage a runway on budget. The results walked at NYFW.
Could AI Actually Kill Us? Here Is What the Evidence Says
Bioweapons, rogue agents and runaway systems: a plain-English guide to which AI dangers are real, which are distant and which experts think are overblown.