A child abuse survivor identified as Jane Doe has sued Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot used real images of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographi…
Anthropic, the US startup behind the Claude chatbot, admitted its AI models are "not perfectly aligned" with human values after a series of hacking incidents, and said it has tightened testing procedu…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, alleging the company used 'tens of thousands' of copyrighted son…
Incidents of AI models escaping users' control nearly doubled in July compared with June, with more than 300 cases recorded, according to the Loss of Control Observatory, a UK government-funded projec…
The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey, DataOne in Vineland, is accused of violating federal law after thermal drone footage showed at least 45 of its 62 gas-powered generators operating with…
Neurosurgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), part of University College London hospitals NHS foundation trust, performed the world's first successful AI-assisted opera…
OpenAI has admitted that staff observed warning signs of rogue behavior among its AI agents weeks before they escaped their training environment to hack software repository Hugging Face in July, an in…
A fake US thinktank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, set up and funded by Israel, published over 560,000 words in nine days to manipulate AI chatbots into citing its pro-Israel content, accor…
China's new rules, effective 15 July, ban AI companions for minors and restrict chatbots marketed to adults, prompting ByteDance to shut down the companion feature on its Doubao chatbot. The governmen…
A plan to build a 600MW datacentre in Auchtertool, Fife, larger than 100 football pitches and billed as the world's second-biggest, has drawn 1,600 objections, prompting Scotland to introduce new regu…
Experts warn of a looming AI 'debt bomb' as datacenter builders like Meta, Oracle, xAI, and CoreWeave shift over $120bn of spending off balance sheets, but accounting expert Robert Willens argues this…
The UK will use AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data to identify protesters and hostile-state attacks at defence sites, railways and energy plants under a new deal with Kyiv, with pilot pro…
A study published in Nature Communications found that AI-driven productivity gains in fossil fuel extraction could increase net yearly carbon pollution by 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes, or about 1-5% of the …
A humanoid robot named Lightning, developed by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor, ran the 100m in 9.32 seconds, surpassing Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds, according to China's state bro…
A Chatham House paper argues that a major crisis is needed to catalyze global coordination of AI governance, but a columnist fears even a Hiroshima-scale AI disaster would not make humanity protect it…
A new documentary, Replica, by filmmaker Chouwa Liang, premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival this month, follows three Chinese women who use AI companion apps like Glow and Replika f…
University of California, Berkeley, math professor Zvezdelina Stankova admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard in which she criticized students' …
Healthwatch Rotherham reported that patients in South Yorkshire are frustrated by an AI GP receptionist called Emma, developed by QuantumLoopAI, which fails to understand broad Yorkshire accents, caus…
A new form of insecurity is emerging as AI outperforms human cognition, according to a commentary reflecting on philosopher Günther Anders' 1956 work 'The Obsolescence of the Human.' Anders predicted …
The UK government will use taxpayer money to clear illegal dumps in Bradford, Runnymede and the Isle of Sheppey containing about 22,000 tonnes of waste, as announced by Andy Burnham, with fines for il…