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Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so. In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak to Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty in an extended interview. From Trump…

TypeSafe Inc., the creator of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with contributions from Sequo…

OpenAI's annualized revenue rate sits at about $50 billion, well below the initially reported $70 billion figure that was based on a different accounting method. The correction sent chip stocks sliding. Meanwhile, OpenAI…

2.4.0 Now I want to talk about the weirdest feature of our universe's laws, the fact that they are quantum mechanical. As you may be aware, quantum-level processes interact oddly with measurement . 2.4.0.1 In particular,…

TL;DR: Mistral previously performed the worst of all providers on our human rights scenarios, with their Medium 3.5 model failing on almost every single test. Their newly released model, Mistral Large 4, improves perform…

Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release When The Social Network came out, Mark Zuckerberg organ…

New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.

We have a deep reservoir of assets, but struggle to turn small companies into global success stories. Innovation needs to be at the heart of government policy Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 The comi…

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again He stands accused of being out of touch , enriching himself and his family, building a la…

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times. The fight, which took place on September…

Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse rule builds on an approach that already lets models end some conve…

An international visa programme has for years allowed US tech companies to hire highly skilled workers from abroad.

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing…

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financia…

The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it Get our new political email , free app or daily news podc…

For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you m…

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions

The company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms.

In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14 Molly Russell’s father will tell UK cinemagoers that “Instagram helped kill my daughter” in an advert…

Exclusive: Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast…

On Monday, October 5th, the New York City council had a historic hearing on the state of AI. I was in attendance! It was a historical moment for AI Safety. We had Speaker of the Council Julie Menin directly mention exist…

Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation’s financial sector

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Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European c…

As AI moves into K-8 instruction, district technology leaders must weigh external evidence, data protection and results-based contracts before scaling these systems.

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

AI adoption in the public sector is on the rise, but data, legacy systems and governance remain barriers to effectively scaling the tech.

Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across ind…

Kristalina Georgieva says big economies will have to make ‘very touch choices’ as soaring bond yields hit budgets The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on governments across big economies to tighten thei…

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Lawyers launch super-complaint over finding that officers in England and Wales frequently dismiss image-based abuse Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse…

'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era

We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear before the Joint Select…

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Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devices Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian adults will…

Commissioner says Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian privacy regul…

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent.

Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to carry out the necess…

The order affecting two planned data centres follows concerns over forest clearance.

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either re…

AWS invests in tools that help customers align with international standards for responsible AI governance. In this post, we explore the AI system impact assessment: what it is, how it improves enterprise-wide risk manage…

Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that One of the most beloved characters in an absurdist genre of online video content has become t…

New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves…

South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI mod…

Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.

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Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiser Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-pers…

Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety Act Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launchin…