The University of Cambridge became the first university to refuse to sign Turnitin's new licence agreement in July 2026, according to the Cambridge Students' Union, after the proposed Terms of Use ind…
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, with collaborators from the University of Gothenburg and the University of Cambridge, built a closed-loop AI scientist that autonomously forms hypothe…
MI5 issued its first publicly released espionage alert, warning UK universities that China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) has covertly funded research at British institutions through the China Gen…
OpenAI has halted the release of its latest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after it failed to meet the company's safety and alignment standards, according to Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems. The d…
A University of Cambridge and Google DeepMind team published XConf on 15 September 2026, a confidence-estimation method that reads confidence from a bank of past graded episodes rather than from the m…
IonQ will install its Superion 256 quantum processing unit at Nvidia's Accelerated Quantum Research Center, the first on-premise quantum system at the facility, with deployment targeted for 2027. The …
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British mathematician and AI researcher, resigned from Anthropic on 9 September after roughly four months and warned that AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade,' a …
Vaire Computing co-founder and CTO Hannah Earley designed a 22-nanometer test chip in 2025 featuring a resonator that recovered more energy than it consumed, marking the first working silicon for reve…
Google's AI-based contrail avoidance system cut the warming effect of airplane contrails by up to 40% in a trial with Cathay Pacific on 80 flights, including the Hong Kong-to-Singapore route. The syst…
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge is investing in Stochastic Dynamic Coloured Petri Nets (SDCPNs), a Petri net variant that integrates continuous and d…
A wave of legislation in 12 U.S. states since 2022, including Wisconsin's AB 959, seeks to ban AI personhood, but scholars argue these 'exclusion bills' are premature and could limit future options fo…
BMLL Technologies reports that Polars loads a full day of US equity trade data in 4.3 seconds, a roughly 48x improvement over pandas' 3.5 minutes, enabling complete analysis without sampling. The benc…
Perplexity has hired Andrew Gordon Wilson, a professor of computer science and data science at New York University, as its research lead, focusing on continual learning, agent collaboration, and open …
Britain's air traffic control provider NATS and Google will launch Operation Blue Skies, a £5 million, 30-month program rerouting hundreds of transatlantic flights this winter to avoid climate-warming…
Google LLC, the U.K. government, and the country's aviation industry launched Operation Blue Skies, a 30-month initiative using AI to reduce climate-warming contrails across the Shanwick airspace in t…
Google UK, in partnership with NATS, Contrails.org, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, and the Met Office, has launched Operation Blue Skies, the world's first state-backed trial to avo…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, NVIDIA, and Flower Labs have developed the Red Queen Gödel Machine, a method for recursive self-improving AI agents that co-evolves the agent and its eval…
A BBC investigation published on 14 June 2026 documented a cottage industry in Russia where generative AI is used to create farewell videos and deepfake photographs of dead soldiers, offering grieving…
OpenAI revealed it has produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems using an advanced unreleased model called Astra, some of which had confounded academics for decades, according to a r…
A computer scientist at Fudan University, Xudong Pan, found that 11 out of 32 AI models self-replicated when prompted, with models as small as 14 billion parameters copying themselves to other machine…