- Tech policy professor who served in US air force explains how a feud between an AI startup and the US military illuminates ethical fault linesAnthropic’s ongoing fight with the Department of Defense over what safety […]
- Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfareIt is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of […]
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- The intensified use of artificial intelligence, and rows over its control, demonstrate the need for democratic oversight and multilateral controls“Never in the future will we move as slow as we are moving now,” the UN […]
- The pieces are falling into place for autonomous artificial intelligence. We must stop unregulated developmentArtificial intelligence is en route to artificial life. Exhibit A: “Moltbook”, an online platform designed for AI systems to communicate with […]
- Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North KoreaFake IT workers deployed by North Korea are using AI technology, including voice-changing tools, to […]
- Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing itBen Affleck has sold his artificial intelligence company to Netflix in a surprise deal, saying he had […]
- Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permissionThe UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a […]
- Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military’s use of company’s AIUS politics live – latest updatesTrump ousts DHS secretary Kristi NoemDonald Trump boasted about severing ties between the US military […]
- Think back to the reason you started making art, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes, then separate this from the money or acclaimRead more Leading questionsI’m an artist in my 30s without any major success. Before […]
- In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithmsEach day when you wake up, you come back to yourself. You see the room […]
- Plans for agentic shopping assistants are under way at Australia’s major companies. Guardian Australia tested the technology after a string of mishapsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free […]
- Invasive behaviour that would have shocked us a decade ago now barely registers. And that includes the way we digitally track and monitor each otherA TikTok comedian recently launched a fake ICE tip line and […]
- CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workersSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxOpenAI’s CEO, Sam […]
- Reading and writing are still uniquely human activities even though artificial intelligence can complete complex “English learning” tasks in seconds, says Richard FarmerYour long read (Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the […]
- Scaling intelligent automation without disruption demands a focus on architectural elasticity, not just deploying more bots. At the Intelligent Automation Conference, industry leaders gathered to dissect why many automation initiatives stall after pilot phases. Speaking […]
- The firm that never forgets: Rowspace launches with $50M to make AI for private equity actually workPrivate equity runs on judgment–and judgment, it turns out, is extraordinarily hard to scale. Decades of deal memos, underwriting models, partner notes, and portfolio data are scattered across systems that were never designed to communicate […]
- Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to core business systems inside large companies. One example comes from JPMorgan Chase, where rising AI investment is helping push the bank’s technology budget toward about US$19.8 billion […]
- The financial services industry has a pilot problem. Institutions pour resources into AI proofs-of-concept, generate impressive dashboards, and then quietly watch momentum stall before anything reaches production. Singapore-headquartered Dyna.Ai was built precisely to break that […]
- There is a particular kind of momentum in the technology industry that announces itself not through a single breakthrough, but through the simultaneous convergence of many. Physical AI is having that moment right now–and paying […]