
- Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. There must be a case of upgrade fever taking hold… Read more: Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh - The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future
A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already here. For AI employers, it is quietly becoming a retention problem. By Sunny… Read more: The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future - UK must heed warnings from AI experts, minister says
Louise Haigh will set out benefits of AI to TUC conference while vowing government will take safety seriously Ministers must “heed the warnings” from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI as it looks… Read more: UK must heed warnings from AI experts, minister says - Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week,… Read more: Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race - AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell
Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob… Read more: AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell - Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risks Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails… Read more: Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies - Elementum Announces the Appointment of Phil Duggan as CRO
Enterprise software veteran will lead Elementum’s global revenue strategy as the company scales adoption of its AI-native platform. Elementum, the AI-native platform replacing legacy enterprise SaaS, announced today it has named Phil Duggan as its… Read more: Elementum Announces the Appointment of Phil Duggan as CRO - Vectra AI Deepens Alliance With WWT to Accelerate Cyber Defense
Joint solution helps organizations detect, prioritize and investigate AI-driven attacks while validating performance across existing security controls World Wide Technology (WWT), a leading global technology solutions provider, today announced an expanded collaboration with Vectra AI,… Read more: Vectra AI Deepens Alliance With WWT to Accelerate Cyber Defense - For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the first public declaration Monday that the United States has placed “space control weapons” in orbit, an announcement that will surely reverberate in the power centers of Beijing and… Read more: For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit - AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast
A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. How worried should we be? Today in Focus host Annie… Read more: AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast - Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death
Ancient DNA reveals that plague was already killing hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before cities and flea-driven epidemics. The prehistoric strains may have been especially dangerous because they carried a genetic factor capable… Read more: Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death - Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars
Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to make that happen. Today’s Series A… Read more: Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars - Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars
Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to make that happen. Today’s Series A… Read more: Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars - AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop
AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a “complex social system in which humans and Agents… Read more: AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop - Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA’s decision on a Mars spacecraft
In theory, developing a spacecraft that will fly to Mars, insert itself into orbit around the red planet, and relay transmissions back and forth to large satellite dishes on Earth is a relatively straightforward proposition.… Read more: Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA’s decision on a Mars spacecraft - RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver a keynote address at an anti-vaccine conference being held in Washington, DC, later this week and hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he once led, Children’s Health… Read more: RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield - Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding
Aron Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to ease the work of procurement teams, launched today with $8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first was led by Menlo… Read more: Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding - Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay entitled “We Must Pace the Frontier.” He expressed ongoing concerns over the “misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism” and fears that a swarm of… Read more: Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking - OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M
OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than $300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has confirmed the purchase… Read more: OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M - Contact center AI ROI shifts toward resolution quality and governed execution
The next phase of contact center artificial intelligence will be measured less by how many interactions machines handle and more by whether customers actually get their problems resolved. That was one of the central conclusions… Read more: Contact center AI ROI shifts toward resolution quality and governed execution - Texas governor threatens to penalize datacenters not obeying water laws
Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail to comply with state laws requiring them… Read more: Texas governor threatens to penalize datacenters not obeying water laws - AI adoption outruns readiness as contact centers chase end-to-end resolution
Artificial intelligence now touches nearly every customer service operation, yet most deployments still stop at a single chatbot or an assist panel beside a human agent. The harder work — coordinating data, systems and people… Read more: AI adoption outruns readiness as contact centers chase end-to-end resolution - Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”
In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are now joining hands to call for a massive slowdown… Read more: Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering” - A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
In one episode of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Birdman, the eponymous hero struggles to fight the evil Dr. Shark aboard a submarine without solar energy to recharge his powers. So Birdman would surely appreciate the new… Read more: A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater - Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
The US is not backing down from its fight to deport noncitizen technology researchers who monitor safety risks on the biggest online platforms. In July, a judge blocked as unconstitutional an immigration policy that the… Read more: Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat - AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they’re in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the… Read more: AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed - Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
As previously announced, Apple has today released 2026’s major annual updates for its operating systems, including iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Siri AI—a large language model-based and… Read more: Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements - Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people… Read more: Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots - OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Elon Musk is seemingly done attacking Apple over its decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features. Back in 2024, when the partnership was first announced, Musk slammed the integration as an agreement from Apple to… Read more: OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out - Unsustainable – or manageable? We don’t yet know how data centres will impact Australia’s environment
The Conversation, CC BY-SA Australia’s pipeline of huge data centre projects has raised questions about how much energy and water these giant server farms will use. These questions aren’t simple to answer because we don’t… Read more: Unsustainable – or manageable? We don’t yet know how data centres will impact Australia’s environment - Microsoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debate
Firm publishes AI guidelines with Microsoft AI CEO saying: ‘AI must be subordinate and always in service of people’ Microsoft published a provisional “code of conduct” Monday to apply to the training of new artificial… Read more: Microsoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debate - Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post a quarterly profit. That operating deficit isn’t for a lack of trying — and, as the company… Read more: Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI - Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations Europe must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to nullify the threat of being cut… Read more: Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde - China dismisses AI ‘fearmongering’ as spy chief warns of threat to Communist party rule
Beijing hits back after Anthropic CEO calls for US to impede China’s progress in AI China has dismissed what it said were “fearmongering” calls for the US to block Beijing’s AI industry, even as the… Read more: China dismisses AI ‘fearmongering’ as spy chief warns of threat to Communist party rule - AI has arrived in South Africa’s boardrooms – but company law hasn’t caught up
Werner Pfennig/Pexels AI is beginning to influence how boards of directors make decisions in South African companies. Directors use it to do things like assess financial information, predict market trends or identify potential risks before… Read more: AI has arrived in South Africa’s boardrooms – but company law hasn’t caught up - New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites
The New York District Attorney announced on Monday that it has seized 12 websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, primarily of celebrities and public figures. The DA’s office said it believes that this marks the… Read more: New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites - Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years
While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have plenty of ideas on how the country could go about setting meaningful rules. It’s a particularly precarious… Read more: Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years - New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40
Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Most cars get a midlife facelift about four years after… Read more: New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40 - “Offensively cheap”: Solar power is looking up
In the badlands of Chakwal, in north-central Pakistan, Bestway Cement is transforming plots of dry earth and olive and peach groves into a forest of solar panels. Its efforts will add 6.34 megawatts of generation… Read more: “Offensively cheap”: Solar power is looking up - New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims. - Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to… Read more: Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review - Prehistoric builders transported Devil’s Arrows 11 miles
Stonehenge is the most famous example of megalithic architecture across Britain and Ireland, but there are plenty of others, including Calanais, Newgrange, and Avebury, as well as the Devil’s Arrows. The latter is Britain’s tallest… Read more: Prehistoric builders transported Devil’s Arrows 11 miles - The AI Slowdown Problem: OpenAI Fears Antitrust Rules Could Get in the Way
OpenAI is seeking clarity from Congress on whether coordinated efforts by rival AI labs to slow frontier development could violate antitrust law. The post The AI Slowdown Problem: OpenAI Fears Antitrust Rules Could Get in… Read more: The AI Slowdown Problem: OpenAI Fears Antitrust Rules Could Get in the Way - Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
This week we’re joined by Jennie Rose Halprein, executive director of Library Futures, a non-profit that advocates for a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they serve. We have written a bunch of… Read more: Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin) - Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct
Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational… Read more: Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct - Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department used Flock’s surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop’s stated… Read more: Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ - Flam raises $40M in funding to make AI-enabled interactive content a reality
Interactive content startup Flam is looking to build up impressive traction that it says was made while operating in “stealth mode” after announcing a $40 million Series B round of funding today. The round was… Read more: Flam raises $40M in funding to make AI-enabled interactive content a reality - Trump claims he is only ‘guardrail’ needed to control AI as top Republicans join him in dismissing calls for more checks – live
President condemns what he claims is a ‘sick conspiracy’ amid global tech selloff following CEOs calls for slowing pace of development Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has claimed there is… Read more: Trump claims he is only ‘guardrail’ needed to control AI as top Republicans join him in dismissing calls for more checks – live - Malaysia Advances AI Governance Bill as New Enterprise Rules Take Shape
Malaysia has completed its draft AI Governance Bill, bringing proposed risk, oversight, and incident-reporting rules closer to enterprises. The post Malaysia Advances AI Governance Bill as New Enterprise Rules Take Shape appeared first on TechRepublic. - China’s Ant Group Pushes AQ Into Everyday Health as Users Reach 150M
Ant Group’s AQ health app has reached 150 million users as it expands into wearable data, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and AI-powered health coaching. The post China’s Ant Group Pushes AQ Into Everyday Health as Users… Read more: China’s Ant Group Pushes AQ Into Everyday Health as Users Reach 150M - This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT
A World War I submarine wreck off Denmark is leaking TNT into the surrounding water, seabed, and marine life more than a century after it sank. Scientists warn that thousands of similar wrecks could pose… Read more: This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT - Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t
Captive-raised saltwater crocodiles released into Bangladesh’s Sundarbans surprised scientists by settling into the wild rather than trying to return to their breeding facility. The result suggests that releasing larger, mature captive crocodiles could help restore… Read more: Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t - Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years
A foundational chemistry concept found in textbooks for almost 100 years may have been taught incorrectly. Researchers say the inductive effect in neutral molecules appears to extend only across one chemical bond, rather than gradually… Read more: Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years - Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the prompts sometimes including sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned. The prompts these people review can include… Read more: Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats - Hidden brain wiring may help keep the mind sharp as gray matter shrinks
Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to better language skills and appeared to… Read more: Hidden brain wiring may help keep the mind sharp as gray matter shrinks - Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future
Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models — just days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced that… Read more: Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future - F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour
It’s been quite the couple of weeks for Formula 1. First, its annual visit to one of the oldest tracks on the calendar, the Italian temple of speed that is Monza, just outside Milan. Apologies… Read more: F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour - Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why
Cancer rates are rising in adults under 55, and new research suggests accelerated biological aging may be one piece of the puzzle. Scientists found that people from more recent generations tended to have bodies that… Read more: Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why - Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says
Abigail Bradshaw says ‘enormous’ amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly available Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s top intelligence… Read more: Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says - AI is supercharging money scams – here’s what you can do to protect yourself
Financial losses caused by AI fraud are skyrocketing, especially among adults over 60. Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s been an accident, he says, and he needs… Read more: AI is supercharging money scams – here’s what you can do to protect yourself - AI leaders who skip this meeting keep losing budget in Q3
Every AI leader has a kickoff meeting. Fewer have a meeting where someone asks whether the thing should still exist. That second meeting, the quarterly review where a project either earns its next dollar or… Read more: AI leaders who skip this meeting keep losing budget in Q3 - Copado extends Agentia agentic AI DevOps platform for Salesforce with headless automation
Copado Inc., a low-code DevOps solution provider for Salesforce, today announced it’s extending its Agentia platform with Headless, bringing it directly into developer tools and operational workflows. Agentia is Copado’s artificial intelligence-powered AgentOps platform that… Read more: Copado extends Agentia agentic AI DevOps platform for Salesforce with headless automation - Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner
Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected For the surging number of Americans who now live alongside constantly humming computer-filled mega-warehouses, it is clear AI datacenters come… Read more: Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner - I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned:… Read more: I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner - The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
This essay is over 13,000 words long and represents our most substantial writing on AI safety since the original essay. Over the last few months, loss–of–control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic have intensified concerns about… Read more: The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents - AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI development. Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants the US to maintain its lead over China. - Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women. - UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights
Warning follows series of safety incidents, with committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates British lawmakers are demanding more restrictions on the power of AI, warning the world… Read more: UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights - Who should own the knowledge that underpins AI technology?
Russian mathematician Yurii Nesterov’s work on gradient descent methods is influential in the development of AI technology. Simons Foundation via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-ND Russian mathematician Yurii Nesterov was recently awarded the Gauss Prize for… Read more: Who should own the knowledge that underpins AI technology? - ‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction
While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands. - AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development
Shares in tech firms tumble across Asia with Nasdaq also likely to dip later after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call Business news – live updates AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses… Read more: AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development - How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel
Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood by everyone at once. Vox Group, a 25-year-old guiding technology… Read more: How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel - From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing
A video looks simple when you press play. There is a picture, some dialogue, perhaps music in the background, and a few minutes later it is over. However, with the right use of AI, things… Read more: From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing - Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment
Deloitte’s 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but… Read more: Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment - Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat?
Da-kuk / Getty Images Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI… Read more: Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat? - AI-linked stocks fall after call for development slowdown worries investors – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival The… Read more: AI-linked stocks fall after call for development slowdown worries investors – business live - ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign… Read more: ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn - AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?
After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’ Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings… Read more: AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? - Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?
Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts Futureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie… Read more: Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree? - Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’
Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts Jack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his… Read more: Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’ - We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing To imagine the future as being almost entirely bleak has… Read more: We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney - MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials
The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve. Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT,… Read more: MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials - New method enables AI for safety-critical situations
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy nonnegotiable safety,… Read more: New method enables AI for safety-critical situations - Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down the frontier of AI development
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two biggest rivals: OpenAI… Read more: Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down the frontier of AI development - AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast
A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by AI. How worried should we be? With technology editor Robert Booth Ten… Read more: AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast - Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says
A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county’s coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year. All three have occurred in… Read more: Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says - Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now?
The Conversation, CC BY-SA Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical and industry circles. But over the… Read more: Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now? - Data centres in Australia: your questions answered
The Conversation, CC BY-SA Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony… Read more: Data centres in Australia: your questions answered - US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests
Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communities Schools and law enforcement authorities in the US are issuing warnings against a viral “Cat in the Hat” social… Read more: US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests - Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms
The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take responsibility for real… Read more: Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms - Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video streaming service announced the launch of a new AI-powered feature that matches actors’ mouth movements to dubbed… Read more: Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue - ‘Too little, too late’: Critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI… Read more: ‘Too little, too late’: Critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown - OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real… Read more: OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident - Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI
Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser… Read more: Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI - Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructure The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Michael* is an… Read more: Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough - AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts
AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused… Read more: AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts - Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar… Read more: Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light - NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, the system can produce proteins, fats, vitamins, and… Read more: NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies - Scientists are building a microscope powered by a quantum computer
Scientists are combining an electron microscope with a quantum computer to squeeze far more information from each electron. The approach could reveal faint details with fewer electrons, helping protect fragile samples that conventional microscopy can… Read more: Scientists are building a microscope powered by a quantum computer - Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans
The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient climate records suggest volcanoes disrupted the relationship in the past,… Read more: Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans
