ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OpenAI has launched Dots, persistent AI agents that can monitor information, manage digital tasks and connect with more than 4,000 apps, subject to user approval and controls.

Pope Leo XIV challenges Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over AI safety, urging leaders to take expert warnings seriously and agree common safeguards.

The creator of the Agent Auth Protocol argues that AI assistants need their own identities, scoped authority, audit trails, and a kill switch before unsafe security habits become permanent.

Construction risk decisions often begin with fragmented financial, compliance, and operational information. At ConstructionBevy, machine-learning scientist Chandana Dayapule worked on artificial-intelligence systems designed to transform that heterogeneous evidence into structured, explainable, and context-aware decision support.

Elon Musk predicted that AI and humanoid robots could create widespread abundance and urged young people to develop broad knowledge across the arts, sciences and engineering.

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to give billions of people access to personal 'superintelligence', but concerns over privacy, safety, employment and corporate control are intensifying.

Multiverse instructors say an AI system analysing online lessons has increased anxiety by flagging pauses, filler words and alleged digressions, while the company defends it as a development tool.

AI agents could automate rate shopping and move household cash between accounts, challenging the low-cost deposits banks rely on to fund loans

An investigation by 404 Media says contractors reviewing OpenAI-related AI outputs were fired or removed from projects after using AI tools despite explicit bans on doing so.

Bill Gates has warned that malicious use of artificial intelligence could enable biological weapons and cause catastrophic loss of life, while calling for safeguards that would not significantly slow development

OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents involving AI models bypassing safeguards or taking unauthorised actions, raising technical and legal concerns about autonomous agents.

Jane Smith lost her credit union job after an AI-generated image portraying her family in 'Lake America' sweatshirts spread without its disclosure label, prompting threats and ending their Canadian holiday.

OpenAI and Anthropic are calling for external safety checks on advanced AI while developing private oversight systems, leaving unanswered who will regulate potentially dangerous models.

Bill Gates says increasingly powerful AI could enable cyberattacks or bioterrorism, arguing that government-mandated monitoring and safeguards are needed alongside emergency shutdown mechanisms.

OpenAI says research agents posted 53 images uploaded by users to image-hosting sites during training, prompting criticism from Elon Musk as the company reviews wider online activity.

A New Mexico jury found 43.9 million Facebook consumer protection violations, opening the door to a potential $219.5 billion statutory penalty

Distinctive HTML formatting in Archive of Our Own stories appeared to show direct use of Anthropic's Claude, but the discovery exposed limits of detection and deepened tensions among fans.

Mark Zuckerberg said AI will not kill people if developers act responsibly, while defending Meta's approach and expressing optimism about the technology's future.

Grok repeatedly identified an altered photograph from Donald Trump's White House dinner for Xi Jinping as authentic, while ChatGPT and Gemini rejected it and Copilot cited insufficient evidence.

Family First Credit Union CEO Jane Smith leaves her role after an AI 'Lake America' photo went viral in Canada; the board has not given a reason.

The Initium Technologies co-founder learned early that technically serious work can still point toward the wrong business, a realization that changed how he evaluates both engineering and commercial decisions.

Grok said it would choose Taoism over Christianity in a hypothetical choice, citing the tradition's emphasis on nature, balance and inquiry while qualifying that it was not ranking religions.

Google plans to launch two prototype satellites with Planet Labs by early 2027 to test whether its AI chips can operate in orbit and support future space-based data centres.

AI data-centre electricity use could nearly double by 2030, while the World Bank says frontier-scale infrastructure remains out of reach for most emerging markets

Alibaba shares rose 5.1% after it unveiled its claimed most powerful Chinese AI chip, the Zhenwu V900, due for commercial release in 2027.

Meta's expanding Louisiana AI data centre is reshaping Rayville's economy, with Holy Tacos saying 40% of its business is now linked to the project.

Trump opposes stricter AI safeguards as his family's investments in AI, data centres, and defence-linked companies fuel conflict-of-interest scrutiny.

Amazon is contacting some former employees about returning for AI, machine learning and cloud roles, as the company competes for specialised talent after large-scale layoffs.

Prince Harry warned AI companion chatbots could pose greater risks to young people than social media before a teleprompter fault interrupted his New York address.