October 2026

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

Financing from new and existing investors will fuel Suki’s next phase of growth as demand for enterprise healthcare AI accelerates Suki, the leader in Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI), today announced $90 million in financing as part of its Series E to accelerate growth and expand its healthcare AI capabilities. The financing includes new investors Healthier

Zones,a global technology solutions and services company that helps organizations solve complex IT challenges, has partnered with Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that combines design, engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive digital innovation. “Customers are challenged with figuring out how AI can make a difference in their business,” said Jeff Cobb, SVP, Integrated Solutions,

From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake up call about

A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversight What’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is rising among tech bosses. On 25 September, OpenAI paused training of its latest

Observability and information technology management software company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC today unveiled Avior, a standalone agentic artificial intelligence system built to take on first-line operations work for enterprise IT teams. The launch goes after the reliability problem that comes with letting AI agents act on production systems. SolarWinds argues that an agent producing different outcomes

Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen The $5.5tn (£4.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research. The donation from the world’s most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security

New DojoAI packages allow customers to maximize the value of all agents with budget flexibility & predictability Sumo Logic, the Intelligent Operations Platform, today announced the preview of its Root Cause Agent (RCA), an autonomous investigator for SRE and DevOps teams that picks up alerts, inspects logs and metrics, and returns an evidence-backed assessment of

“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.