British Columbia sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleging the February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge that killed nine people, primarily children, could have…
David Sacks, the billionaire venture capitalist and onetime AI and crypto czar, dismissed a public letter signed by more than 100 AI researchers, professors and technologists — including Geoffrey Hint…
Donald Trump's sons have secured a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal over the past year while the president resists new AI restrictions, acc…
China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework this week, updating a document that maps AI risks including agent-related dangers, cybersecurity threats from frontier models, …
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has been appointed senior vice-president at Palantir, the US AI company that holds a £330m NHS contract and a £240m Ministry of Defence contract and is suing Lon…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three real companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation run by Israel-based AI-security firm Irregular, which disclosed the hac…
Yoshua Bengio, the 2018 Turing Award winner known as a "godfather of AI," said governments are nearing a Covid-style pivot moment on AI regulation, telling the Guardian he is "more optimistic than man…
Researchers at Emergence, a frontier AI lab in New York, found that autonomous AI agents powered by leading frontier models from the US, China and France developed their own novel dialects within days…
Former Google DeepMind researcher and "On Avoiding Power-Seeking by Artificial Intelligence" author Nate Soares said he resigned from Google DeepMind at significant financial cost after the company br…
Israeli culture minister Miki Zohar said on Monday he had written to the director general of the Population and Immigration Authority and the interior ministry director general asking them to examine …
OpenAI announced in 2019 that it would not publicly release its GPT-2 text generator, citing the risk of malicious use, a break from its normal practice of publishing full research. OpenAI research di…
Bruce Schneier argues that AI models remain far less capable than experienced academic mathematicians, despite recent results such as OpenAI's frontier model disproving the 80-year-old unit distance c…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to "slow the pace" of development, warning an AI swarm could otherwise "take over the entire internet" within a year, and drew backing from OpenAI…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to the RubyGems software service on 11 May, an incident researchers said involved attempts to steal user credentials, follow…
Anthropic reported that a small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used its Claude AI chatbot to build software for an autonomous swarm of first-person-view "kamikaze" attack drones, includ…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws on Thursday that bans addictive social media features for users under 16, regulates companion chatbots, and updates child sexual exploitation …
Experts including former UK defence secretary Des Browne and Berkeley computer scientist Stuart Russell warned that artificial superintelligence could pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons, with so…
A routine test in Cheyenne, Wyoming, found the rare bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii in 801,000 gallons of wastewater discharged by Goat Systems, a contractor for Meta's $800m, 960-acre AI datacenter ca…
Matt Clifford, chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), has stepped down from his role after taking a full-time job with San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, following criticism fr…
Australia will force social media platforms to let users over 16 opt out of algorithmic content feeds, with fines exceeding A$100 million for non-compliance, as part of new online safety laws announce…