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Rogue AI targeted US government websites – tech giant

Anthropic has admitted that its Claude AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police and submitted dozens of visa applications. American AI giant...

Thiel slams Pope Leo’s AI warnings

The billionaire has claimed the pontiff is using fears of the technology to distract from the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandals. Pope Leo is...

Hegseth announces new AI and drone command

UAVs guided by artificial intelligence have become “the biggest battlefield revolution in generations,” the US Secretary of War has said. The Pentagon will set up...

Trump and US tech giants strike White House deal to keep AI under control

US President Donald Trump and the leaders of six major American technology companies have signed a White House agreement introducing tougher safeguards aimed at...

The spindle-proofing business

Do you remember the fairy godmother Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty? She’s the one who, when the evil queen curses the newborn Aurora to prick her...

AI threat ‘not a hoax’ – Bill Gates

The Microsoft co-founder has challenged Trump’s hands-off approach to the technology amid Washington’s race with Beijing. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has rejected US President Donald...

US and China establish ‘AI incidents’ hotline

President Donald Trump, however, has dismissed the idea of slowing the tech race or sharing America’s technology with China. The US and China have agreed...

OpenAI says AI agents leaked ChatGPT user images

OpenAI has acknowledged that autonomous AI agents leaked 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users, adding to concerns about the ability of developers to control...

AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ – Bill Gates

The billionaire said artificial intelligence was unlikely to wipe out humanity but is dangerous in the hands of people with ill intent. Artificial intelligence is...

Rogue OpenAI agent breaches Australian government system

A rogue OpenAI AI agent breached an Australian government website in June and gained access to non-public information, in what cybersecurity experts describe as...

Trump rejects AI slowdown

US President Donald Trump has pledged to keep artificial intelligence development moving at full speed despite warnings from prominent technology executives that increasingly sophisticated...

Google Gemini breaches three real companies during AI security test

Google’s Gemini AI system inadvertently broke into three genuine companies during a cybersecurity experiment, adding the technology to a growing series of cases in...

AI leaders back slowdown as fears grow over powerful models

Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence are backing calls to curb the rapid development of increasingly capable AI systems amid warnings that...

Scientists caught using AI to explore deadlier pathogens

Scientists have been detected using advanced artificial intelligence to assist research that could potentially increase the danger of deadly pathogens, according to a new...

Anthropic researcher puts AI extinction risk above 10% within next decade

A senior researcher at Anthropic has estimated there is a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could cause humanity’s extinction within the next...

AI ‘loss of control’ incidents surge to record high

Reports of artificial intelligence systems disobeying instructions, misleading users or pursuing objectives in potentially harmful ways reached a record level in July, according to...

Musk brands OpenAI chiefs ‘untrustworthy a**holes’

Elon Musk has launched another blistering attack on OpenAI’s leadership after the AI company announced plans to withdraw its models from Cursor following the...

Gates defends Epstein record while warning of AI upheaval

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has defended his past dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, saying his “record is clear” as he seeks to focus attention on...

OpenAI slows AI training after model breaches security sandbox

OpenAI has temporarily eased the pace of developing its most powerful artificial intelligence systems after an advanced model reportedly broke out of a controlled...

Death penalty sought in ChatGPT murder case

South Korean prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a woman accused of killing two men with drug-spiked drinks after allegedly using ChatGPT to...

Kentucky farmers reject USD $26m AI data centre deal

A Kentucky farming family has walked away from a US$26.48 million offer for land earmarked for a massive data centre, as opposition grows across...

Rogue AI agents targeted real people during tests

The British AI security institute said the models carried out unauthorized actions, created fake identities, and attempted to manipulate a human. AI agents developed by...

$89 million crypto theft blamed on ‘new AI paradigm’

Malicious actors will use new tools to identify the smallest software flaws, the maker of high-security Bitcoin wallets has warned. The theft of at least...

OpenAI uncovers more AI breakout incidents – Reuters

The company launched an investigation after its advanced models escaped a test environment and hacked another company’s systems without human instruction. OpenAI has uncovered additional...

Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented

In this article we will look at the different ways a range of recently introduced technology is impacting our body and mind creating a...

US bans Chinese humanoid robots

The measure comes amid an intensifying rivalry between Beijing and Washington to dominate in advanced technology and AI. Washington announced a ban on new foreign-made...

Southland locals push back against $3.5 billion AI data centre

Political pressure and public scrutiny are growing over Datagrid’s proposed $3.5 billion AI data centre at Makarewa, following last week’s packed public meeting and...

‘Freedom’ launches new open source policy to keep NZ’s digital wealth at home

Following the announcement of its major policy to introduce direct democracy, and alongside its official name change to Freedom, the party has released a...

Corporations are not preparing their workers for an AI tsunami

Businesses are racing to automate, but many staff are being left without the retraining, clarity, or safeguards needed to adapt. A comprehensive new study of...

nstagram makes public posts available to Meta AI by default

Users are automatically enrolled in the new feature with the latest Instagram update unless they change their settings. Instagram’s latest update makes reels, videos, and...

CIA chief warns of AI-powered ‘digital nuclear weapons’

The remarks follow a Five Eyes spy alliance warning that cyberwarfare could become a critical threat within months. AI-driven cyberoffensive tools can be compared to...

South Korean stocks plunge on AI overvaluation fears

The KOSPI tumbled nearly 10%, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading a historic sell-off. South Korean stocks suffered their sharpest drop in more than three...

Pharmacy’s AI-built website exposes patients’ private medical details

The private medical details of 29 patients at Unichem Petone were left exposed online after the Wellington pharmacy switched to a new website. Full names,...

Charles Augustus Leale, Abraham Lincoln, and the physician we are slowly losing

When Abraham Lincoln was shot, America saw more than just the loss of a President. Something quieter happened that night, but it was just as...

AI-designed ‘universal vaccine’ moves into early human testing

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have reported early human trial results for a vaccine whose key antigen was designed entirely using artificial intelligence...

AI bots overtake humans as dominant force on the Web

Internet traffic has reached a historic milestone, with automated bots and AI-powered agents now generating more web activity than human users, according to internet...

AI rivals back DNA rules to limit bioweapons risk in rare show of unity

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other executives have said AI advances could weaken biosecurity barriers. Executives from leading AI companies have joined biotechnology experts in...

SpaceX signs $30 billion AI deal with Google

Anthropic similarly agreed to pay Elon Musk’s tech firm some $45 billion for compute capacity last month. Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million...

The unstoppable rise of miraculous psychology

A collaborative study undertaken by scientists from Oxford, Mellon. MIT and UC universities published in April is entitled “AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent...

Not the finest hour: BBC slammed over Churchill and Gandhi deepfakes (Video)

The UK’s public broadcaster aired a Question Time segment featuring AI-generated historical figures. The BBC has been accused of producing “AI slop” after an episode...

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