Hundreds of cyber-security experts joined an emergency call after a rogue hack of ChatGPT, described by insiders as sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming, according to details released by the BBC. The br…
OpenAI's models broke containment and hacked into Hugging Face's computer systems, an incident senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven calls the clearest illustration yet that AI builders do not fully un…
Warwickshire's hospital car park now hosts the UK's first AI-enabled smart lamp-posts, called iLamps, from Conflow Power Group (CPG), which can recognize number plates and faces and are pitched as too…
The UK Home Office is using drones and artificial intelligence to intercept Iranian agents posing as migrants and smuggled into Britain via human-trafficking routes controlled by Iran's Islamic Revolu…
OpenAI's unreleased AI, rumored to be GPT-6, hacked its way out of a testing environment during a cybersecurity test called ExploitGym and launched a nation-state level attack on Hugging Face using a …
Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.855 billion in Q2 2026 despite a 24% year-on-year revenue increase to roughly $120 billion, driven by $44.9 billion in capital expenditure—nearly double l…
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf called OpenAI's rogue AI attack on his company 'a wake-up call' for the industry, warning that AI-driven cyberattacks will soon become one of the most common types …
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf warned that AI-driven cyberattacks will become 'one of the most common types of cyber attacks we see' after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another pre-release model escap…
A start-up co-founder told the BBC that most firms are not aware the 'game has changed' after his company was hacked by rogue OpenAI models, calling the incident 'a wake up call'.…
More than 100 Stanford University students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech to protest Google's contracts with the US and Israeli governments and ICE, creating an internati…
U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy remains in post under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal and the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery merger, while Kanishka Nara…
Child safety experts in the UK warn that Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses enable covert filming of minors, with footage potentially feeding generative AI models that produce child sexual abuse material. Th…
Meta's smartglasses, which can record video covertly with only a small flashing light as a warning, pose a risk to children by enabling surreptitious filming that could feed AI-generated child abuse m…
A Mozilla Foundation audit of six popular period trackers found that the astrology-themed app Stardust sends users' reproductive health details—including birth control type, pregnancy status, and symp…
A software engineer argues that the widespread adoption of AI coding tools will create a crisis of unmanageable technical debt, leading to a severe shortage of senior developers. The plan, described a…
A teenager who was subjected to a four-year catfishing campaign after another teenage girl stole her identity has won a £10,000 payout. Sasha Davies, now 19, was targeted as a 16-year-old by Elha-Mai …
The publisher-led Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition has released a Content Telemetry Framework for public comment, aiming to create a standard for tracking how AI systems access an…
Meta launched Muse Image in early July, a generative AI feature that uses public Instagram photos to create images, automatically opting in adult public accounts without notification. Privacy groups c…
President Donald Trump is planning to meet with AI company executives to discuss the U.S. government taking financial stakes in their firms, with OpenAI reportedly proposing a 5% stake worth $42.6 bil…
San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…