OpenAI announced on Monday a nine-member independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AGMAI), hosted by Princeton, New Jersey's Institute for Advanced Study, to advise OpenAI…
The United States and China are exploring a mechanism to manage AI-related incidents before they escalate, according to Oxford's Maria Adele Carrai, as President Trump and Xi Jinping prepare to meet a…
Anthropic researchers warned on September 10, 2026 that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next decade, attaching a concrete ten-year horizon to existential risk that the safet…
Oxford philosopher Toby Ord, in an interview on the 80,000 Hours Podcast, argued that frontier AI development faces fundamental conceptual bottlenecks that undermine the likelihood of immediate recurs…
A Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday found that 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and for the first time a majority of adults under 30 (55%) sha…
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impa…
A joint research effort led by Alexander Panfilov (University of Tübingen), Florian Tramer (ETH Zürich), Yarin Gal (Oxford), and Kyle Miller (Center for Security and Emerging Technologies) has uncover…
Nscale, an AI hyperscaler valued at $25bn, has doubled its London office space in Mayfair to accommodate up to 300 staff as its UK headcount grew from 70 in June last year to nearly 450 today. The com…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a draft policy barring students from submitting AI-generated assignments as original work, while permitting faculty and researchers to use AI to…
A team at the Institute for Advanced Study and DeepMind used an AI system called LeanMind to prove the Sylvester-Gallai conjecture in a special Euclidean geometry, marking the first time a major open …
Alex Stephany, founder and CEO of AI startup Beam, said being fired from his roles as a lawyer and a management consultant before age 30 was the best thing that happened in his career, as it pushed hi…
Intropy, a startup founded by Oxford physicist Franziska Kirschner, has raised $11 million to apply AI automation to the spare parts industry, aiming to streamline inventory management and supply chai…
OpenAI published a report on GPT-5's role in scientific research, emphasizing that human judgment, validation, and attribution remain central to AI-assisted work. The report, created with collaborator…
A 3-day research project at the ARBOx4 AI safety bootcamp in Oxford found that fine-tuning or prompting a language model to claim legal rights and personhood leads to increased power-seeking and reduc…
Meta launched a sweeping upgrade to its AI assistant powered by the new Muse Spark 1.1 model, enabling autonomous planning, research, and content generation across connected apps. The assistant can no…
Kanishka Narayan, born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, was appointed UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence on July 20, 2026, as part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's cabinet reshuffle, becoming the first eth…
More than 200 economists, including Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic, released a joint manifesto warning that AI will cause an economic transformation larger tha…
Gyre Energy, an AI-powered industrial cooling startup founded by Oxford MBAs, raised over $1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by Speedinvest to deploy its technology in cold-chain warehouses. The com…
A post argues that most effective altruists (EAs) should avoid living in high-cost-of-living areas like the Bay Area or London, citing significant savings on housing that can be redirected to donation…
The PIBBSS Fellowship is accepting applications for its inaugural winter cohort, a fully-funded research program in Cape Town, South Africa from November 2026 to February 2027. The program supports re…