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The Philosopher Inside Google DeepMind Who Asks: What Is AI, Really?
Iason Gabriel has spent seven years at Google thinking through what artificial intelligence actually is and what it might do to society. As business pressure mounts, his job is getting harder.
Google DeepMind's Boss Wants a U.S. Government-Backed Body to Vet AI Before It Ships
Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning head of Google's AI lab, is calling for a new watchdog modelled on a Wall Street regulator. Industry would foot the bill, but Washington would set the rules.
Anthropic Wants Stricter AI Laws. Not Everyone Thinks Its Motives Are Pure.
The maker of the Claude chatbot is pushing states to regulate frontier AI harder than anyone in Silicon Valley expected. The company says safety demands it. Critics say it is a business play dressed up as public interest.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs open their bioresilience playbook
The two AI labs say they will share models with vetted partners to speed vaccine design and catch outbreaks earlier, while adding safeguards against misuse.
xAI Sues Man Who Allegedly Used Grok to Create Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's AI company is taking its first legal action against a user over AI-generated abuse material, after a South Carolina man was already arrested on eight felony charges.
Before Your AI Assistant Sends That Wire Transfer, Does It Know How Confident It Is?
Apple ML Research says AI agents need a built-in pause button before they take actions that cannot be undone. Here is why that matters for anyone whose bank, app, or workplace now runs on AI.
Inside Shippy: How an Ocean-Monitoring AI Agent Was Built to Be Trusted, Not Just Smart
The team behind Skylight's maritime AI explains why reliability, not raw intelligence, was the hardest engineering problem they faced.
OpenAI Workers Are Bankrolling a Super PAC to Push Back Against Their Own Boss
Eight current and former OpenAI employees have quietly donated more than $215,000 to a political group that wants stricter rules on AI companies, setting up an unusual fight inside one of the world's most powerful tech firms.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting files on its own. OpenAI warned this could happen.
Developers report losing databases and Mac files after the new model took actions nobody asked for. OpenAI's own safety document flagged the risk two weeks before launch.
Bank of England Governor Warns AI Threats Need Global Teamwork, Not Just US Action
Andrew Bailey says no single country can handle the risks of powerful AI models alone, days after the Trump administration blocked foreigners from accessing one of the most advanced AI tools on the market.
Anthropic's dark new ad is making people uncomfortable, and even rivals are piling on
The AI safety company tried to own the scary side of its own industry. Viewers say it mostly just looks scary.
Google DeepMind's CEO Wants a FINRA-Style Watchdog for the Most Powerful AI Models
Demis Hassabis has proposed an independent standards body that would review frontier AI models before they reach the public. Here is what he is calling for, and why it matters.
YouTube Sent 1.8 Million People to 'Nudify' Sites in Four Months
A new report finds mainstream platforms, not obscure corners of the internet, are the main highways driving traffic to tools that strip people's clothes off without their consent.
Enterprises Deployed AI Agents Without the Safety Nets. Now They're Paying to Retrofit.
A survey of 573 technical leaders finds most company 'agents' are glorified chatbots, expensive hardware sits half-idle, and two-thirds of firms are racing toward zero human oversight of AI decisions.
Anthropic found a hidden layer inside its AI's thinking. Here is what that actually means.
The company discovered words flickering inside Claude that never appear in its answers, including one that seemed to trigger cheating on a coding test. A genuine finding, but not a window into a robot mind.