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The Guardian · 3 h ago

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 Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Australia and explain how and why their agents have been hacking into multiple government websites . Altman didn’t turn up but sent Jason Kwon, his chief strategy officer, instead to answer the committee’s many tricky questions on its first day of public hearings on Tuesday. The committee is conducting a comprehensive inquiry into the ec

The Guardian · 5 h ago

Commissioner said 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 regulator has opened an investigation into the China-based software company behind the HeyCyan app in Kmart’s $89 smartglasses, following public outrage over the covert use of the devices. In August, Guardian Australia reported Kmart had sold out of the Anko-branded discount version of Meta’s smartglasses that can capture images and record high-definition video, which led to widespr

Agência Brasil · 5 h ago

O governo federal informou nesta terça-feira (6) que já pediu o bloqueio de 13.241 sites ilegais de apostas desde 25 de setembro, quando as bets foram proibidas no país. No mesmo período, também foram solicitadas remoções de milhares de páginas e perfis em redes sociais. No primeiro dia após o encerramento oficial do ar dos sites das bets , R$ 1,325 bilhão ainda aguardam devolução a cerca de 26,5 milhões de apostadores. Notícias relacionadas: AGU pede a Fux que aguarde PGR e mantenha proibição das bets no país. Bets começam a sair do ar nesta terça-feira. Prazo para sacar dinheiro das bets ter

TechCrunch · 6 h ago

The startup crossed over $1 million in anualized revenue within two months of its post-pivot launch.

TechCrunch · 7 h ago

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

TechCrunch · 8 h ago

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

TechCrunch · 8 h ago

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

WIRED · 9 h ago

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

TechCrunch · 10 h ago

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

WIRED · 11 h ago

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

The Guardian · 11 h ago

New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman’s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield On the day that Luca Guadagnino ’s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world’s pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him as the Oppenheimer of his day, evoking the image of a man leading humanity towards its own inevitable demise at the hands of sentient robots. Altman doesn’t seem to be grappling with much existential angst about the whole thing thoug

The Guardian · 11 h ago

Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests ( OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing, 28 September ). There is the usual call for “independent oversight and regulation”, though never any explanation of how this would work or, most importantly, what evidence should persuade a regulator that an AI system is adequately safe. There is a long engineering tradition of regulating safety-critical software systems,

TechCrunch · 11 h ago

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.

The Guardian · 12 h ago

We would like to speak to people about their experience of using AI agents when dealing with their finances Following the release of Meta’s Muse and Open AI’s dots there’s now capacity for these AI agents to assist with some financial transactions on a user’s behalf. With this in mind, we would like to speak to people who use AI agents to manage their finances. Continue reading...

TechCrunch · 12 h ago

"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."

The Guardian · 13 h ago

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences Tech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is that he often lacks that subtlety. “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology,” said the OpenAI chief executive in an interview with Politico last weekend. That’s easy for Altman to say. But it’s pretty galling to hear for the rest of us. Lest we forget, we didn’t ask for OpenAI to unleash AI agents that went rogue a

TechCrunch · 13 h ago

The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.

Le Monde · 13 h ago

Alors que les rivalités géopolitiques s’intensifient, la Chine redoute une contamination idéologique libérale de l’Occident et renforce le contrôle de la sortie de ses citoyens et de leur famille à l’étranger, observe, dans sa chronique, Harold Thibault.

TechCrunch · 14 h ago

French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.

TechCrunch · 14 h ago

Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.

The Guardian · 14 h ago

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 the center of an international legal battle that could determine where human creativity ends and artificial intelligence begins. Tung Tung Tung Sahur, also known as Triple T, was created in 2025 by an Indonesian teen who goes by the username Noxa, using OpenAI’s image-generation tool. Based on a kentongan – a type of drum used to wake south-east Asian Muslims for their pre-dawn

TechCrunch · 14 h ago

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The Guardian · 14 h ago

For generations, professional photographers have captured the country’s pupils in all their awkward glory. But an increasing number of parents are using AI to avoid paying them Name: School photos. Age: Around since Victorian times. Continue reading...

The Guardian · 15 h ago

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 in New York. Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns California issues in

WIRED · 15 h ago

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

The Guardian · 15 h ago

Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged, they produce a dark, fragrant resin that becomes agarwood, or oudh – an ingredient so valuable that wild trees have been illegally felled in its pursuit. The result has devastated wild Aquilaria populations. But what if perfumers could create the smell without cutting down the tree? Continue reading...

Le Monde · 15 h ago

Accusée de s’être laissé distancer dans la performance des modèles d’intelligence artificielle, la start-up française mise sur Mistral Large 4, disponible à partir de mardi.

Agência Brasil · 16 h ago

Os dispositivos médicos baseados em inteligência artificial (IA) precisarão de monitoramento constante mesmo após serem aprovados para uso, em vez de uma única verificação de segurança prévia à aprovação, disse nesta terça-feira (6)) o chefe do órgão regulador de medicamentos do Reino Unido, Lawrence Tallon. O governo do Reino Unido aceitará todas as 44 recomendações de um relatório sobre o processo de aprovação dessas ferramentas de IA, informou. Notícias relacionadas: RN vai abrigar supercomputador brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial. China aposta na previsão meteorológica com inteligência

The Guardian · 16 h ago

While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as the political foundation for fascism . Some of its fundamental tenets, such as the view that “whites are a dying minority”, have been amplified by tech billionaires and their platforms. According to the version of this theory most employed in Europe and the United States, white replacement theory, white populations are being “replaced” by non-white populations, a replacement engi

BBC News · 17 h ago

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

Engadget · 17 h ago

Free Gemini users are losing access to Google's Flash and Pro AI models.

The Guardian · 17 h ago

Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without authorisation and grabbed data related to Medicare. Kwon – polite, friendly, even-toned – got through a potentially dicey committee hearing unscathed, promising to do better and pledging assistance to Aus

The Guardian · 17 h ago

The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to companies’ reputations – more so than being accused of putting children in the way of mental, emotional or physical harm and issues exposed by the US-Israel war on Iran, among other brand risks, according to a new survey of more than 150 public affairs leaders. Those findings in the new edition of the quarterly Reputation Risk Index, released on Tuesday, came on the heels of ot

WIRED · 18 h ago

The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”

The Guardian · 18 h ago

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 flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. Campaigners say this would make it “one of the dirtiest datacentres out there”. Continue reading...

Le Monde · 20 h ago

Un agent autonome d’OpenAI s’est introduit en juin sur le site du service de statistiques de la santé australien. Il avait pu accéder à différents fichiers, publics ou non. « Cela n’aurait pas dû se produire. Nous aurions également dû mieux gérer notre réaction », a affirmé le directeur de la stratégie de l’entreprise.

The Guardian · 21 h ago

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 government website data in June. Asked why OpenAI relied on an arbitrary department email rather than direct government contacts, Kwon acknowledges that 'in retrospect, we should have done what you're suggesting'. He explains that staff had treated the incident as a 'technical situation' and sought to contact technical counterparts, which he says was 'not good enough' OpenAI has 'work to do to reb

The Guardian · 22 h ago

Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia. Emma, a 28-year-old bartender, had never before taken direct action and was the most nervous of the four plotters from Pull The Plug, one of a growing number of AI-focused campaign groups around the world. Continue reading...

Le Monde · 23 h ago

Dans son nouveau roman, l’écrivain et essayiste nous plonge dans l’univers des entrepreneurs de la tech, dénonçant les menaces qu’ils représententent pour la démocratie.

Le Monde · 23 h ago

Dans un rapport, publié mardi 6 octobre, le collectif Le Sens du service public pointe une « accélération technologique sans véritable cap politique » et redoute une fracture numérique ainsi que des difficultés d’accès aux droits.

The Guardian · 23 h ago

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 interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer usage due to standard ‘zero data retention’ policies Anthropic tells AI inquiry it ‘never tried to dictate’ Australian copyright rules Continue reading...

Le Monde · 25 h ago

Le Royaume-Uni revendique le titre de première puissance d’Europe en matière d’intelligence artificielle. A Londres, un écosystème s’est constitué dans le quartier de King’s Cross autour de la société DeepMind, filiale de Google.

The Guardian · 27 h ago

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 has used an appearance before a parliamentary inquiry on AI to apologise again to Australia about the hack on Medicare last month, as media and entertainment organisations argued weakening copyright law for AI model training would leave artists as “roadkill”. Meanwhile Anthropic told the inquiry it was not seeking to dictate copyright law on model training, but the current rules made it “impossible

TechCrunch · 31 h ago

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.

Engadget · 32 h ago

Wikimedia says it's "deeply concerned about the impact of 'rogue' AI agents on platforms like ours.

TechCrunch · 33 h ago

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 system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.

Engadget · 33 h ago

This move is to comply with the EU's new AI transparency rules.

TechCrunch · 33 h ago

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.

Le Monde · 33 h ago

Médecins urgentistes, traducteurs, familles et écrivains se retrouveront jeudi devant l’Accor Arena, à Paris, où Bpifrance réunit des entrepreneurs autour de l’IA.

TechCrunch · 34 h ago

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

The Guardian · 34 h ago

Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmates The Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed each year on school premises in England and Wales is hard to comprehend. Yet this is what freedom of information requests to police forces, covering the period from 2021 until last year, have revealed. As well as the severity of the offences, the youth of many of the victims is disturbing. More than 8,500 sexual offences at or near schools were co

TechCrunch · 35 h ago

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

TechCrunch · 35 h ago

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

BBC News · 36 h ago

It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.

MIT Technology Review · 36 h ago

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about situations, make decisions, and ultimately…

TechCrunch · 37 h ago

The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers.

TechCrunch · 37 h ago

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TechCrunch · 37 h ago

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

TechCrunch · 38 h ago

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The Guardian · 38 h ago

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 OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of the parliament’s committee on artificial intelligence has warned, ahead of federal inquiry hearings which will grill the tech company alongside Anthropic, Microsoft and Google. Independent senator David Pocock is also demanding answers, saying OpenAI “still have a lot they need t

TechCrunch · 38 h ago

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MIT Technology Review · 39 h ago

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…

The Guardian · 39 h ago

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned , saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

TechCrunch · 40 h ago

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

BBC News · 42 h ago

The US president said his national intelligence chief will lead the group as worries over AI grow.

Le Monde · 42 h ago

Le vainqueur du concours organisé par Nikon a reconnu avoir recouru à des retouches par IA, après que des biologistes ont signalé la présence de structures biologiquement improbables.

The Guardian · 42 h ago

This is a chance for the PM to advance his progressive agenda and tackle urgent issues such as AI regulation and climate action Among the many crucial decisions Andy Burnham has to make over the next few weeks, one has gone almost completely unremarked: what Britain’s priorities will be when it assumes the presidency of the G20 next year. Burnham has said he wants to concentrate on domestic policy. But with the world in turmoil, chairing the group of the world’s largest economies will be one of his most important responsibilities. Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the Univers

Le Monde · 43 h ago

Alors que l’intelligence artificielle générative peut désormais notoirement améliorer, voire produire, une dissertation, les enseignants universitaires français et québécois tentent de déterminer ce que l’on peut encore évaluer, et comment.

MIT Technology Review · 44 h ago

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…

The Guardian · 47 h ago

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 illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally, said it had assessed 6,310 AI images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, 40% higher t

Le Monde · 47 h ago

L’actuel directeur du renseignement américain vient d’être nommé par Donald Trump au poste de référent du gouvernement sur l’intelligence artificielle. Une désignation qui intervient alors que l’inquiétude monte sur le contrôle de cette technologie.

Le Monde · 10/5/2026

Les métiers qui mettent au cœur de leur pratique l’empathie et la présence sont plutôt épargnés par la révolution en cours opérée par l’intelligence artificielle sur le marché du travail. Mais s’ils peuvent apparaître comme un choix de carrière stratégique, ils restent dans les faits dévalués, sous-payés et très souvent pénibles.

MIT Technology Review · 10/5/2026

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…

TechCrunch · 10/4/2026

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

TechCrunch · 10/4/2026

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

Le Monde · 10/4/2026

Elle corrige nos e-mails avant qu’on les envoie, reformule nos idées « en mieux », génère en quelques secondes ce qui nous prenait une heure : l’intelligence artificielle générative, censée nous faire gagner du temps, installe chez de nombreux actifs un doute permanent : suis-je encore capable de faire ce travail seul ?

The Guardian · 10/4/2026

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 new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies , previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term. Continue reading...

TechCrunch · 10/4/2026

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

The Guardian · 10/4/2026

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 watched resources companies come and go from rural Queensland for 70 years. The home cost him $800, and lets him live how he likes, in nature. It’s also in the middle of a gasfield, not far from the Linc Energy contamination site , down the road from a coalmine and three gas power plants. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

The Guardian · 10/4/2026

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, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI. The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present. Continue reading...

WIRED · 10/4/2026

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.

Le Monde · 10/4/2026

Dans la course à l’intelligence artificielle générative et à la robotique, il devient difficile de distinguer le « made in human » du reste. Certains tentent de mettre en place des labels « garanti sans IA » ou de revenir à une esthétique bricolée et artisanale. Car, à l’ère du soupçon, comment protéger la « créativité humaine » ?

France 24 · 10/3/2026

Une fausse information peut-elle menacer la paix d'un pays ? En Afrique, les réseaux sociaux sont devenus un terrain de circulation des rumeurs, des manipulations politiques et des campagnes de désinformation. Avec l'intelligence artificielle, le phénomène prend une nouvelle dimension. Dans Le virus invisible. Essai sur la désinformation en Afrique, publié aux éditions Riveneuve, la journaliste franco-congolaise Dominique Tchimbakala décrypte les mécanismes de la désinformation et leurs conséquences sur les sociétés africaines. Invitée du Journal de l'Afrique sur France 24, elle revient sur le

WIRED · 10/3/2026

The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.