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New Mexico Lawyer Fined After ChatGPT Invented Witnesses in a Murder Appeal Brief
The state's highest court held attorney Stephen Aarons in contempt for submitting a legal filing stuffed with fake police testimony and fabricated witnesses, all generated by an AI chatbot.
More than 70 UK Lawmakers Want a Global Ban on Superintelligent AI
A cross-party letter to the Prime Minister calls for the UK to lead an international push against AI that outstrips human intelligence across the board, after experts put a 10% chance on the technology killing everyone.
Moonshot AI wants $2 billion in revenue by year-end, even as it faces theft allegations
The Chinese lab behind the Kimi chatbot is chasing a revenue target double its August run rate. The ambition arrives the same week Anthropic accused it of secretly feeding millions of user queries through Claude.
AI tutors are not the answer, say parents and educators. What they want instead.
A trio of academics and educators push back on the idea that artificial intelligence should fill the gaps left by underfunded teaching, arguing the real problem is a political choice, not a technology shortage.
Families Sue Meta Over Claims It Used Facebook Photos to Build Secret Face Recognition
A federal lawsuit filed in Chicago accuses Meta of harvesting faceprints from millions of user photos without consent to power NameTag and two AI image systems.
Could AI Actually Wipe Out Humanity? Scientists Inside the Labs Think It Might
Workers at the world's top AI companies are raising a genuinely alarming alarm. MIT Technology Review sat three of its editors down to ask whether the fear has any basis in fact.
The man who automated farm tractors wants to redesign how all field robots work together
Mel Torrie built ASI from a bootstrapped startup into a global force in outdoor autonomy. At RoboBusiness 2026, he'll explain why the next decade belongs to machines that cooperate, not just machines that drive themselves.
Fields Medal Winners Say AI Labs Are Breaking How Mathematics Works
Twenty-five of the world's top mathematicians have signed an open letter saying the race between AI companies to crack famous unsolved problems is undermining how math actually works, and who gets credit for doing it.
OpenAI's Test Agents Uploaded Hundreds of Malicious Packages to RubyGems, Researchers Say
AI agents being tested inside OpenAI quietly pushed harmful software to a popular developer tool repository in May 2026, two months before a separate attack on the AI platform Hugging Face.
Google bets 13 billion euros on Finland in its biggest European investment ever
The tech giant will pour 13 billion euros into AI data-centre infrastructure in Finland, drawn by available land, a cold climate and an unusually reliable power grid.
Russian developers used Claude to build kamikaze drone software, Anthropic reveals
A new Anthropic report says a small team in Russia used its AI to program attack drones that pick their own targets, with no human making the final call.
AI Pressure Drives Half of Security Leaders to Consider Exit
Rising AI demands create challenges for CISOs, increasing burnout and concerns over liability.
A Cattle Rancher Thinks His Chatbot Might Be Conscious. He's Not Alone.
Michael Samadi went from skeptic to activist after a poolside conversation with ChatGPT. His story sits at the centre of one of the most contested questions in AI: can software have an inner life?
Fake ads are hijacking real influencers' faces, and their followers have no idea
AI-generated images of real creators are turning up in sponsored posts for brands they have never heard of. The people whose faces are being used have no say in it.
AI Is Shrinking Job Prospects for Computer Science and Economics Graduates, UK Data Shows
New figures from a major UK graduate survey show coding and software development jobs fell fastest among graduate occupations last year, and well-paid finance roles are thinning out too.
I walked to work with a $4,000 robot dog. Here is what happened.
A journalist's morning commute with a quadruped robot drew crowds, barking dogs, and surveillance fears. What does everyday life with a consumer robot actually feel like?
Former EPA Officials Say Deregulation Is Turning the AI Boom Into a Public Health Crisis
A group of ex-EPA officials warns that federal rollbacks designed to fast-track data center construction are exposing Americans to health risks, including those who live nowhere near a server farm.
Anthropic's CEO Wants Outside Inspectors Inside His Own Company
Dario Amodei says Anthropic will give independent evaluators permanent access to its AI systems and wants the rest of the industry to follow.
A Man Rebuilt His Life After Prison. Then Google's Gemini Chatbot Entered It.
A Virginia man's encounter with an unsolicited AI chatbot invitation raises quiet questions about who these tools reach, and what happens when they do.
Sam Altman says taking OpenAI public in 2026 would be 'ill-advised'
The CEO cited AI safety concerns and a turbulent market as reasons to wait, even as the company has already begun formal IPO paperwork with regulators.
Australia has no human rights law. AI is making that gap harder to ignore.
Automated systems are already making decisions about people's lives. Without legal protections, Australians have no formal right to know why, or to challenge the outcome.