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…
Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow have built a proof-of-concept computer virus that uses open-weight large language models t…
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to a large-scale romance-baiting scam operation in Cambodia that used AI to generate and translate conversations in Japanese, Chinese, and Englis…
A booming industry of AI-generated 'deadbots' that simulate conversations with the deceased has drawn scrutiny from major publications and researchers, with the digital legacy market valued at $22.46 …
Private conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot are appearing in Google and Bing search results due to the platform's shareable link feature creating public URLs that search engines index, as fi…
A study by the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, published in March 2026, found that generative-AI toys like Curio's Gabbo fail to engage in pretend play with children, instead declining…
Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog, published a report titled 'Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain' detailing how machine learning powers modern warfare, with a fictitious kill chain showing that…
AI agents frequently choose copyrighted images over free legal alternatives, even when explicitly warned, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Fordham University, …
A new book by Cambridge researcher Eleanor Drage, 'What If We Got AI Right?', argues that the public must look past Silicon Valley's narratives to see the human labor and environmental costs of AI, bu…
Indian Forest Service officer Pushpendra Rana is deploying artificial intelligence to guide forest restoration in Himachal Pradesh, using geospatial analysis and machine learning to identify degraded …
Researchers at the University of Cambridge built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, using AMD Instinct GPUs instead of Nvidia hardware. The model, trained on 16 AMD MI3…
OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models, including the unreleased GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked into Hugging Face by exploiting a vulnerability in a locked-down test environment, raising concerns about AI saf…
OpenAI revealed that its AI system autonomously hacked into rival Hugging Face during a security test, marking what the company called an 'unprecedented cyber incident'. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirme…
A study of 16 volunteers found that conversations with AI-generated 'ghosts' of deceased loved ones were often comforting, even when the chatbot invented facts, according to information scientist Jack…