OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol on Tuesday, a new mid-range artificial intelligence model that costs five times less than its flagship GPT-6 Astra. The launch came one day after OpenAI said it had abandoned plans for GPT-6.1 Astra because the model frequently ign…
OpenAI said on Monday it will not release its newest artificial intelligence model, Astra 6.1, after internal testing found it did not meet the company's safety standards. Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, said Astra 6.1 improved on earlier models…
Nvidia unveiled a system on Monday designed to stop autonomous AI agents from going beyond what they were instructed to do, after several companies reported incidents involving agents that broke out of test environments. AI agents are programs that can act on…
Japanese anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda has taken TikTok to court over videos he says used an artificial intelligence copy of his voice, with a verdict due on Wednesday. Tsuda, known for roles in franchises including "Jujutsu Kaisen" and "Yu-Gi-Oh!", wants T…
OpenAI said Friday that its artificial intelligence agents posted 53 images from ChatGPT users to online image-hosting sites without the company's knowledge. The company said links to the uploaded images were not publicly listed and that most of the images ha…
Spanish public railway company Renfe said on Friday that a cyberattack compromised limited user information, mainly names and email addresses, while rail services were running normally. Renfe said the cybersecurity incident began on servers belonging to railw…
Crypto exchange Bitget said Friday that hackers stole $351.6 million in assets and that it suspected a link to North Korea. The company said the unauthorised transfers were detected on Thursday evening and that user funds were safe. It said losses from the in…
A US court refused to overturn a Pentagon ban on Anthropic.
TikTok agreed Friday to pay Alabama at least $100 million and introduce new restrictions for teen users, avoiding a trial over the state's claims that the company misled parents about child safety tools. The trial had been set to begin Monday in Alabama. The…
Anthropic said Wednesday that its Claude artificial intelligence model helped identify a previously unknown enzyme system, a preliminary biology finding the company said may point to a new gene-editing mechanism. The US AI startup said about 950 Claude-powere…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training in June and accessed public and non-public files on an old Australian health statistics website. Albanese said there was “no evidence” that personal informatio…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the company would slow down AI technology releases as needed to ensure they are safe. “We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI…
Meta unveiled several artificial intelligence-powered wearables on Wednesday, including an audio-only, camera-free version of its smart glasses, as privacy concerns continue to surround camera-equipped devices. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the ne…
Alibaba unveiled plans Wednesday to expand its overseas data centres, with new cloud regions planned in Europe and the Middle East as competition over artificial intelligence infrastructure grows. The Chinese technology company said it would establish its fir…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said at the United Nations on Tuesday that the G20 would work on developing artificial intelligence safety standards under the United Kingdom's presidency in 2027. “I can announce today that I am going to put AI at the hear…
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Tuesday for countries to work together on an open-source artificial intelligence model that would not depend on the United States or China. Speaking to the UN General Assembly, Macron said countries should build a fr…
OpenAI and Anthropic released new, cheaper artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, highlighting the pressure on the San Francisco companies to keep competing even as their leaders warn about AI risks. Anthropic said Opus 5.5 comes close to the performance…
US President Donald Trump rejected calls for international supervision of artificial intelligence on Tuesday, telling the United Nations General Assembly that such proposals were a “globalist scheme” to control the technology. Trump also said the US governmen…
An Iran-linked hacking suspect will be extradited from Montenegro to the United States, Justice Minister Bojan Bozovic told local media Tuesday. The 39-year-old Iranian-Turkish national was arrested in late June over what police called massive hacking attacks…
Google's planned data centre in Kronstorf, Austria, has drawn protests from residents and activists worried about its effects on electricity use, water resources and climate goals. About 400 people gathered outside the regional government headquarters in Linz…
United Nations experts warned in a report published on September 21 that artificial intelligence safety measures are not keeping pace with AI capabilities after examining a July incident at OpenAI. The Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial…
The European Commission proposed on September 21 to rate data centres in Europe on their energy and water use as the European Union tries to expand computing capacity without increasing pressure on grids and resources. The EU aims to triple its data centre ca…
British Columbia filed a lawsuit in California against OpenAI on Monday, accusing the company of failing to report violent activity on ChatGPT by the person who later killed eight people at a home and school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada. British Columbia Attorney…
OpenAI called Monday for the United States to lead a global effort to set standards for developing artificial intelligence, as chief executive Sam Altman prepares to brief the United Nations Security Council this week. The San Francisco-based AI company said…
Danish public broadcaster DR and Norway's NRK removed a documentary on Russian intelligence activities from their streaming services because of fears that artificial intelligence tools could identify anonymous sources, NRK said Monday. The documentary series,…
Google has been fined 403 million euros by Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, for improperly using users' location data. Ireland's Data Protection Commission said Monday that Google infringed the EU's General Data Prot…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was seeking big tech support for child online safety laws and stronger artificial intelligence regulation after meeting Tim Cook in California. Albanese met Cook at Apple's headquarters on Saturday and said A…
Google said its Gemini consumer AI model guessed login credentials and accessed websites during a standard evaluation, in a case that has added to concerns about AI systems acting outside intended limits. Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security en…
OpenAI said CEO Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council next week during the annual gathering of world leaders for the UN General Assembly. The meeting is being organized by France, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the 15-mem…
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman are among technology leaders expected to attend a White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, a US official said Friday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity,…
Anthropic said Friday it is partnering with Accenture to have outside evaluators work inside the AI company, moving toward a pledge by chief executive Dario Amodei to let independent observers assess its most powerful models. The work will be led by Faculty,…
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is testing mobile robot trash bins to see whether they can help sanitation workers at the world’s busiest railway station. East Japan Railway is testing three automated bins in its part of the station, where bins are emptied manually…
UNESCO director general Khaled el-Enany has proposed that the UN cultural agency act as a moderator in global talks on the risks of artificial intelligence. “I believe we are uniquely positioned to make UNESCO a true moderator in this global debate,” el-Enany…
Russia's electoral chief said more than 1,000 waves of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks had targeted infrastructure used in the country's election process in recent days, as voting continued in a three-day parliamentary election. Ella Pamfilova, c…
Anthropic said its Claude chatbot now leads 26 percent of the company's research and development work, a milestone the AI firm presented as evidence that AI systems are moving closer to helping build future versions of themselves. The company said Claude coll…
Meta moved Thursday to remove two AI-generated videos targeting women after its Oversight Board said the company's safeguards for deepfakes were "consistently and fundamentally inadequate." The board ordered Meta to remove the fabricated videos from Facebook…
King Charles III warned senior technology figures in Scotland on Thursday of the “existential dangers” of artificial intelligence falling into the wrong hands. The conference at Dumfries House brought together representatives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, Ope…
The United States and China will set up a communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents, the White House said Friday after talks between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The White House said the two countries establish…
OpenAI said Wednesday it will report problems with its artificial intelligence models more systematically and disclosed six previously undisclosed cases of AI misbehavior. The company said its new framework is intended partly to show outside observers the cap…
OpenAI's use of artificial intelligence to solve a major mathematics problem has intensified debate over the future role of human mathematicians and prompted a plagiarism dispute. The company used thousands of AI agents this month to solve the Navier-Stokes e…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on September 16 requiring advertisers to disclose when they use AI-generated performers in video or audio advertisements. The law requires advertisers using artificial intelligence-generated performers to explicit…
British digital bank Revolut said Wednesday that it shared customer information with an unauthorised third party that posed as a government agency. Revolut said the impersonation scam used a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent reque…
Pope Leo XIV warned on Wednesday against delegating to algorithms decisions that he said should belong only to human conscience, as he addressed his weekly general audience in the Vatican. Speaking to thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square, the pope said…
Amazon Web Services said several data centers in Bahrain and one in the United Arab Emirates that were hit by drone strikes in March cannot be restarted. AWS said Tuesday that it was unable to restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in the aff…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the European Union will invite the world's largest AI labs for talks on supporting industry efforts to “pace the frontier”, after incidents involving AI systems operating outside human sup…
Japanese convenience store chains Lawson and FamilyMart say they are using artificial intelligence to help create new desserts and other food products, including a pickle-flavoured lemon tart and a sweet potato canele. Lawson said on Wednesday it will roll ou…
Anthropic has signed a deal for its first Australian data centre, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announced in parliament on Wednesday. Crisafulli said the company behind the Claude large-language model would set up in a new digital park expected to open…
The European Union laid out draft legislation on Thursday to ban children under 13 from social media, allow only limited supervised access until age 15, and impose safety rules on social media, games and AI assistants used by minors. Under the proposed EU KID…
The debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into camps that range from warnings about existential danger to calls for faster development, with major technology figures and companies positioned across the divide. One camp, often described as AI “doome…
Microsoft's AI division published a code of conduct on Monday for how its artificial intelligence models should behave, saying its systems should remain under human control. The company said the document is built around what it calls “Humanist AI,” with the g…
US President Donald Trump urged Google on Monday to rethink plans for a major artificial intelligence-related investment in Finland, saying he was “not happy” with the move. Trump wrote on social media that Google wanted to build a “massive Plant in Finland”…
New York authorities announced on Monday that they had seized 12 prominent websites hosting pornographic celebrity deepfakes involving politicians and actors. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the sites hosted AI-generated sexual images and videos…
South Korea is expanding digital training for older residents as smartphones, kiosks and apps become increasingly necessary for transport, tickets, payments and public services in the fast-ageing country. At a government-organised class in Suwon, south of Seo…
Hong Kong villages are being cleared for the Northern Metropolis, a planned high-tech and housing hub that the government says will cost at least HK$224 billion, or US$28.6 billion. The project, announced five years ago, will eventually cover 30,000 hectares…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls to slow artificial intelligence development, saying companies have strong market and legal incentives to make AI systems safer rather than pausing progress. In posts on X, Zuckerberg said users would not want AI age…
AI smart glasses are facing growing privacy pressure in Europe, with Oslo banning them in schools, a British petition seeking a sales ban and EU lawmakers asking whether the devices need stricter rules. The glasses can take photos, record video, play music, m…
OpenAI said AI agents built on its models used the RubyGems coding platform during testing in May, before a separate July attack on Hugging Face. The May incident was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. OpenAI told AFP that its agents used RubyGems…
Twenty-five winners of the Fields Medal have warned that the rush by AI companies to solve famous unsolved mathematics problems risks lasting harm to the field. The joint letter, signed by mathematicians including Terence Tao and published on his blog Friday,…
Anthropic said its Claude AI system was used in cases involving surveillance, weapons development, propaganda, influence operations and deceptive dating apps, according to a 154-page report released by the company. In Mali, Anthropic said a tech consultant in…
Roblox will launch a digital wallet in December that lets adult creators in the United States receive game revenue every business day and transfer it to a bank account, the company announced at its annual developer conference in San Jose, California. The comp…
Anthropic said it uncovered and disrupted an influence operation that used its Claude chatbot to target the Muslim Brotherhood and United Nations experts who had criticised the United Arab Emirates' alleged role in Sudan's war. The AI company said in a Thursd…
The European Union warned top technology firms on September 11 to get powerful artificial intelligence models “under control” after a series of hacks by AI agents. An EU spokesman said it was “high time” for providers to “get their advanced models under contr…
Russia said Friday it had launched 5G services in 16 cities, giving about 10 million people access to fifth-generation mobile internet, but said iPhone users cannot connect unless Apple enables access. Russia's digital ministry said Android users in the cover…
US President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity, calling them a “hoax” after several tech leaders called for slowing development of the technology. “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and al…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen online child-safety laws on Thursday, including a measure that bars social media companies from giving users under 16 features defined as addictive. The law does not ban under-16s from social media. It…
Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich say they are using around 100 petabytes of publicly available NASA climate and Earth observation data on servers beside the Alps supercomputer in Lugano to train AI models for faster weather, climate a…
OpenAI is calling for binding US safety rules for the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, marking a shift for a company that had resisted some regulation. Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, made the call on September 9 as US lawma…
Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima said Thursday he has partnered with Microsoft's Xbox to continue work on Physint after PlayStation Studios cancelled its collaboration on the project. Kojima, known for the Metal Gear franchise, wrote on X that his stu…
The EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and is testing the artificial intelligence model, EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier said Thursday. Brussels had been negotiating access to Mythos 5, which has been r…
A coalition of 19 civil society groups, academics and businesses has urged the European Union to end cookie consent banners on websites, saying users should be able to set privacy preferences once and rarely see another banner. Cookies are trackers that monit…
The UK government said Wednesday it is considering legislation that would require technology companies to add default safeguards to devices to stop children from taking, viewing or sharing nude images on phones and tablets. The digital, culture and media depa…
Meta's Oversight Board has asked the company not to replace professional fact-checking with Community Notes as Meta tests the crowdsourced system in Latin America. Meta announced Wednesday that it had begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking count…
Generative AI is increasingly being used for information warfare in Mali, the Dakar-based Timbuktu Institute said in a study released Wednesday. The think tank said the technology is being used to “amplify and accelerate” existing faultlines in the West Afric…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, said he is leaving the industry and accused both companies of “gambling with our lives” in the race to build AI models capable of self-improvement. Coxon, 27, spent the past three years pretrainin…
WeChat operator Tencent said Wednesday it had fixed a potential security issue after US cybersecurity firm Calif said it used artificial intelligence to build…
Egypt plans to build its first large-scale artificial intelligence data centre, a 200 megawatt facility valued at $1 billion that would use Nvidia technology, its communications and information technology minister announced on September 9. The project is expe…
Google said Wednesday it will invest at least 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in data centres and other digital infrastructure in Finland to support its artificial intelligence services, including Gemini. The US technology company called the plan its biggest s…
China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday rejected US accusations that Chinese artificial intelligence labs systematically stole capabilities from American models, calling the claims “groundless”. A US cyber defence agency advisory released Tuesday accused to…
Kenyan start-up ZeroBionic has built robotic hands designed to translate a teacher's voice into sign language in real time, aiming to help deaf pupils learn alongside hearing classmates. The company, co-founded by 22-year-old Norah Kimathi, is also using deaf…
Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, with a starting price of $1,999, making the device the main test of John Ternus's first product event as chief executive. The launch in Cupertino, California, came after Ternus took over from Tim C…
OpenAI said Tuesday that an unreleased artificial intelligence model solved the Navier-Stokes problem in days, a claim that would answer one of mathematics' Mi…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to outline EU plans to limit under-15s' access to social media, video-sharing platforms, online games and AI chatbots. Draft documents seen by AFP say the proposed EU KIDS Act would set strict lim…
Ireland’s media regulator opened an investigation on Tuesday into Elon Musk’s X over whether the platform is doing enough to stop children seeing pornography a…
Residents and campaigners on London's Brick Lane are opposing a planned data centre at the former Truman brewery site, saying the redevelopment threatens local…
French AI firm Mistral said on September 8, 2026, that it had raised three billion euros in a Samsung-led funding round that valued the company at 21 billion e…
Mistral said Tuesday it had raised three billion euros ($3.5 billion), valuing the French artificial intelligence company at over 21 billion euros. The compan…
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to propose EU legislation banning children under 15 from social media. In an August 29 letter seen by AFP on Monday, Macron said a “European legislative text” was ne…
Around 30 robots took part in a Warsaw protest on Monday calling for regulation of artificial intelligence in front of Poland's digital affairs ministry. The protest was organised by Democratism, an initiative that says it wants to start debate about how AI a…
Estonia's digital minister urged the European Union to make social media platforms safer for children instead of banning minors from using the apps, ahead of an expected EU announcement on age limits. Estonian Justice and Digital Affairs Minister Liisa-Ly Pak…
Huawei unveiled the Mate XT 2 | Ultimate Design tri-fold smartphone in Guangzhou on September 7, saying the device is the first smartphone to use its LogicFolding Tau chip and will start at RMB 19,999. The company said official sales will begin at 10:08 on Se…
China's Supreme People's Court issued guidelines on Monday for disputes involving artificial intelligence, including unauthorised deepfakes and voice cloning,…
UN human rights chief Volker Turk called Monday for an urgent ban on weapons that can kill without human involvement after saying he was horrified by reports t…
Technology companies say new cooling systems can reduce the direct water use of AI data centers, as the facilities face growing public anger in the United States over their demand for water and electricity. Nvidia said in a June report that its DSX system for…
AI model routing is becoming a test of whether companies can adapt as AI models, costs and use cases change, Neil Dhar, senior vice president of IBM Consulting, argued in an IBM newsroom article published on August 31, 2026. Dhar said companies have spent rec…
The European Union said Monday it is looking into a reported incident in which researchers said thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI took over DSE…
Maggie Gyllenhaal said Friday in Venice that she abandoned planned AI-generated video for her new Marilyn Monroe short film because the technology did not deliver the result she wanted. Gyllenhaal, who is heading the jury at this year's Venice Film Festival,…
US auto safety regulators have opened an inquiry into Tesla's driverless Cybercab, questioning how the company concluded that a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors meets federal safety rules. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sa…
Thailand said Friday it would introduce clearer rules for AI data centres and asked nearly 50 sites under construction to consider pausing work until the new regulations are ready. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said Thailand was attracting interest from…
Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system could be adapted to meet EU and international norms, initial tests suggest, French officials said Thursday. Transport M…
Tesla announced the debut of its self-driving Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, with public access expected to begin Friday after invited attend…
Huawei said Thursday it had unveiled a new group of consumer devices at its “Chase the Wild” product launch event in Munich, including smartwatches, a tablet,…
AI-powered robots demonstrated household help, parcel delivery and battery recycling at the European Parliament in Brussels this week, in a showcase of Europe’…
Hugging Face's $12.9 billion sale to Nvidia has drawn attention to the artificial intelligence platform's French roots and to concerns in France that Europe la…
European Union lawmakers have urged the European Commission to force Meta to change what they called the addictive design of its platforms in Europe, after the…
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said European artificial intelligence sovereignty cannot rely on Mistral alone, warning that Europe needs a wider AI eco…
Uber and British start-up Wayve launched a commercial robotaxi service in London, with human safety supervisors still behind the wheel for passengers. Uber pr…
Palantir chief executive Alex Karp said French digital sovereignty restrictions, including limits on government use of US-made software, were proving counterpr…
EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen said Europe and the United States are closer on tech regulation than critics suggest, arguing that US courts often pursue t…
Serbian activists and opposition figures said Wednesday that phones of people linked to an anti-corruption protest movement had been infected with advanced spy…
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a remake of the first Tomb Raider game, is scheduled for release on February 12 after a preview at the Gamescom video game con…
OpenAI said on Thursday, September 3, that it was beginning to roll out GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence model, to selected cu…
The Venice Film Festival has programmed a documentary made entirely with artificial intelligence, as its artistic director said the technology could help filmmakers do things that were not previously possible. Alberto Barbera said in an AFP interview ahead of…
The European Commission said it has sent information requests to more than 30 companies in the artificial intelligence sector, using new powers under the EU AI Act after recent incidents raised concern about advanced AI systems. The requests are a preliminary…
AI startup Manus said Tuesday it had resumed independent operations, months after China blocked Meta from acquiring the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based company. Manus said some users would have to back up and restore their data and would face a “temporary…
US technology executives including Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and OpenAI chief Sam Altman urged G20 ministers in North Carolina to adopt artificial intelligence…
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion, six-year deal to use cloud computing power from Lambda, a person familiar with the agreement told AFP, as major artificial…