- A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fireFor the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like Paypal, […]
- Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is riggedThe media pundits have written article after article desperately trying to understand why progressive candidates, despite being heavily […]
- A historian charts the emergence of a democracy-crushing dystopia that is – in some ways – already with usPulitzer prize-winning US historian Jill Lepore’s new book addresses the threat posed to liberal democracy by artificial intelligence. […]
- Amid race with Anthropic, firm plans to overhaul research and training and require more safety parameters after hackOpenAI on Tuesday said it had slowed down the pace of its AI development while it overhauled its […]
- Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren MannStuart Russell is right that AI’s builders fear losing control of it (Experts are warning: our AI […]
- Teen version is intended for children aged 13 to 17 and includes content protections on self-harm and sexual chatsOpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT designed for teenagers – the first generation to grow up […]
- Also: AI’s implications on cybersecurity in an era of private attacksHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we’re discussing Meta’s legal danger in […]
- There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them … until nowThe “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May […]
- Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulationThe world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess […]
- Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customerSainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as […]
- Hi-tech cameras orbiting Earth and on the ground, along with AI, help firefighters extinguish blazes before they spreadThe fires in Spokane, Washington, this summer are the latest reminder that when a wildfire is detected can […]
- Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operationThe chips are quite small and some can be held […]
- Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AIFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet […]
- Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AIAlmost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading many […]
- Australia’s corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote phoney investment opportunitiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news […]
- OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it […]
- Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the platform supports pre-built and custom […]
- Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest […]
- Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company […]
- Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo […]