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Calls for AI regulation grow as experts warn of dystopian future
One of the so-called godfathers of AI argued that it “should be approached like other critical technologies” such as medicine or aviation.
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all …
Oct 6, 2026
Semafor Technology
Polls show how AI is changing the workplace
Twenty-eight percent of US employees say they use AI at least weekly, according to a two-year study from Jobs for the Future, The Families & Workers Fund, and Gallup.
Oct 6, 2026
Semafor Technology
Democrats press White House on still-secret AI framework
It’s the latest indication that Democrats are not giving up on a sustained push for answers from the administration.
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI admits misstep in handling AI agent interactions with Australian government sites – video
In a parliamentary inquiry, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is questioned by independent senator David Pocock about the company's notification process after OpenAI agents accessed Australian …
Oct 6, 2026
The Register
OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
Compliance, we've heard of it
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video
During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised intera…
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI has ‘work to do to rebuild trust’ in Australia, executive tells AI inquiry
Anthropic tells inquiry it ‘never tried to dictate’ Australian copyright rules as the ABC says copyright laws do not need changing Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI ha…
Oct 6, 2026
The Register
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
Oct 5, 2026
Ars Technica
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Oct 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Oct 5, 2026
The Register
Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs
Like OpenClaw but with access control
Oct 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI syste…
Oct 5, 2026
The Register
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
Oct 5, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leadin…
Oct 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
Oct 5, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI executive Jason Kwon to face grilling at parliament about AI hacking Australians’ private data
Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will appear at the four-day hearings along with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast …
Oct 5, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy
On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking, a…
Oct 5, 2026
Semafor Technology
‘Enough to go around’: Brookfield’s bullish on AI investing, even if it has to share it with rivals
CEO Connor Teskey sees no end in sight to demand for the energy and materials to feed the AI boom.
Oct 5, 2026
Rest of World
The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear
AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.
Oct 5, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of ill…
Oct 5, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism
A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is funding coverage of artificial intelligence.
Oct 5, 2026
Politico Technology
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
Oct 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Oct 4, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar
Clayton had said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but also posed ‘a threat’ during his confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the …
Oct 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
Oct 4, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has wat…
Oct 4, 2026
The Guardian Technology
The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, …
Oct 4, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump gives spy chief new title: AI czar
Jay Clayton, the former SEC chair and current director of national intelligence, will be one of Trump's leaders on AI.
Oct 4, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that…
Oct 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
Oct 3, 2026
The Register
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
Oct 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs
The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology California’s laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artifici…
Oct 3, 2026
Ars Technica
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down
A set of internal Slack messages details the politics at one of the world’s most powerful AI companies.
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
Oct 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots When voters cast their ballots, their votes are supposed to remain secre…
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of com…
Oct 2, 2026
Ars Technica
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk…
Oct 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI costs are rising for organizations, reports warn
Two new reports from consulting giants show how the AI adoption conversation has shifted from whether it works to whether the spending on it is sustainable.
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide
Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump call…
Oct 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve tha…
Oct 2, 2026
Wired
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’
Oct 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash
‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ Get our breaking news email, free app or da…
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
Oct 2, 2026
The Register
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Oct 2, 2026