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Gargi Agrawalla, a profoundly deaf graduate of Loughborough University, won the 2026 UK James Dyson Award on September 18, 2026, for a wearable AI device that converts emergency sounds such as fire alarms, doorbells, and…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC on Friday that OpenAI's disclosure of a safety incident — in which AI chains of thought were tampered with by the AI itself and modified to leave messages for a future versio…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations. The order f…
Apple's Siri Recap on Apple Watch has accelerated regulatory debate over privacy and consent for ambient AI monitoring, with Apple Worldwide Marketing VP Greg Joswiak positioning the feature as the digital equivalent of …
Robinhood Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage Abhishek Fatehpuria will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on October 13 in San Francisco, in a 25-minute Industry Stage session titled "Winning the Modern Fina…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to rein in artificial intelligence, saying action is needed "before it's too late." Newsom and other 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls have called for a more agg…
Experts told a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Wednesday that the Pentagon's military use of AI is not reducing civilian harm, contradicting claims by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and other proponents. Carnegie E…
Super PACs tied to AI labs and investors have spent close to $1 million backing incumbent Republican Mike Rounds in South Dakota's Senate race, including roughly $600,000 from outside groups — mostly the super PAC Defend…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a new essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," that "we still understand a tiny fraction of what goes on inside those models," after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned publicl…
The GitHub Podcast's latest episode argues that four common AI hot takes — that developers need not read AI-generated code, that companies will not hire developers who avoid AI, that Skills killed the Model Context Proto…
Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets at the end of August 2026, with Abhishek Fatehpuria, Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage at Robinhood, set to disc…
Seattle-based startup ModernVivo is using AI to help scientists design preclinical drug-discovery studies, co-founder Ian Levine told GeekWire, with customers reporting that work which used to take about a month now take…
UK ministers under then-prime minister Keir Starmer ordered a review of existing legislation and explored forcing the world's most advanced AI companies to submit products for safety testing before launch, according to T…
Security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit a heap overflow vulnerability in the open-source image parser libheif and breach OpenAI's Discourse-based help forum, then chained a poorly confi…
Liberal Democrats tech spokesperson Victoria Collins warned that Labour has "no plan" if foreign states or companies cut off technology underpinning UK public services, after the government acknowledged risks from concen…
Tether's AI Research group released TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, a collection of open-source machine translation models that the company says outperform Google's TranslateGemma-27B and Alibaba's Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on African lan…
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio told AFP on September 15 that humanity is "losing control" of AI and called for nuclear-arms-control-style institutions, treaties, and democratic safeguards, citing a July 21 incident in…
Security research firm Hacktron said it breached OpenAI's internal systems by exploiting a flaw in OpenAI's public help forum, run on the Discourse platform, and reported the vulnerability to OpenAI and Discourse. OpenAI…
Software developer Dan Abramov published a Lean proof of Conway's refinement conjecture, an open problem in surreal numbers posed by John Conway 50 years ago, after spending a month of free time and a large number of tok…
SemiAnalysis reported that DeepSeek's Engram architecture, which extends standard token embeddings with learned multi-token lookups, can lower required HBM capacity for models at the same quality by offloading embedding …