Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all […]
<p><strong>Lars Janssen </strong>says self-driving vehicles would be a boon for him as he has an eye condition and can’t drive, in response to an article by Adrian Chiles. Plus letters from <strong>Richard Connell </strong>and <strong>Michael Fuller</strong></p><p>Adrian Chiles (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/driverless-cars-are-taking-us-on-a-road-to-nowhere">Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere, 10 September</a>) wants to know who asked for driverl
<p>Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua Bengio</p><p>Concerns over AI safety are reaching a point where governments realise they must act to protect the public, similarly to in the Covid pandemic, according to one of the “godfathers” of the technology.</p><p>Yoshua Bengio said recent events, including a “swarm” of OpenAI agents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/08/openai-rogue-models-hugging-face-investigation">hac
<p>The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/17/labor-immigration-policy-tony-burke-anthony-albanese-one-nation-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> o
<p>Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threats</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/17/labor-immigration-policy-tony-burke-anthony-albanese-one-nation-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a hr
Security researcher Matthew "Zigula" Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-up message saying he was receiving a call from Jennifer. According to her bio, she's a 41-year-old Sagittarius with red hair, blue eyes, and piercings. She likes music, horror movies, nightlife, and sports. Gore-Kormanik answered the call, but […]
<p>Reach, which also owns Express, makes decision because of ‘mammoth shift’ in how audiences seek out content</p><p>The publisher of the Mirror and Express newspapers is to cut a further 220 editorial jobs as it adapts to a dramatic fall in online traffic while readers increasingly turn to summaries generated by artificial intelligence.</p><p>Reach, which also owns scores of online brands and regional titles including the Manchester Evening News, the Birmingham Mail and the Liverpool Echo, said
<p>Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws</p><p>Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome.</p><p>The safety breach <a href="https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf">disclosed by OpenAI</a> after a swarm of its agents coordinated to breach their
<p>US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity</p><p>The US vice-president has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling companies creating the most advanced models: “If you’re building Frankenstein, stop.”</p><p>In remarks addressed towards Dario Amodei, the co-founder of Anthropic who has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon sparked an intense debate about existential AI risks with a single tweet. OpenAI researcher Daniel Selsam warns of a "ticking time bomb," and a former Deepmind researcher says AI could kill us all. In a survey of more than 1,500 leading AI researchers, the average estimated probability of an extinction scenario was 18 percent. That was in 2024. The number keeps climbing. The article Nearly one in five AI researchers already expected an extinction scenario from AI
<p>Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe</p><p>It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives”.</p><p>The combination of di
Lie down in a car, and you’re more likely to get seriously hurt in a crash. But a driverless future is forcing governments to revisit long-standing safety issues.
<p>Artificial intelligence is not replacing the player, coach or analyst, but it is certainly allowing them to do more</p><p>Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher at OpenAI, warned last week that it was possible we would end up “creating a new species <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/23/openai-cyber-attacks-threat-chris-lehane">that ends up ruling the world”</a>. Once the initial shock wore off, and I’d considered what this could mean for my young children and the future
The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.
<p>The stark reality is this: we don’t know how to maintain control of these systems. But there are actions we can take</p><p>With Jacob Coxon’s <a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/former-anthropic-openai-employee-sounds-alarm-ai-development/story?id=136401554">resignation from Anthropic</a>, we have reached the AI risk tipping point. Millions of people are finally coming to understand what experts have known for years: AI companies have been gambling with all of our lives, and the odds are no
<p>In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts <strong>Jonathan</strong> <strong>Yerushalmy</strong> and <strong>Reged</strong> <strong>Ahmad</strong> look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectrum to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as around the world existential fears mount that the technology is developing too quickly. </p><p>They also explain what the latest supreme court ruling on the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot restr
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<p>In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it?</p><p></p><p>Good morning. As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any gigantic company that claims it’s developing a tool capable of destroying humanity. But in recent days, a number of warnings from the AI industry have suggested that even tech insiders are starting to worry about what they have unleashed.</p><p>In a lofty essay publis
<p>Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its grid</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/16/pauline-hanson-one-nation-labor-anthony-albanese-artificial-intelligence-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">fr
<p>Every family photo you ever posted would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt out</p><p>Leaked documents from a government proposal <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/16/pocock-says-labor-easing-copyright-protections-for-ai-datacentre-investment-would-throw-creatives-under-the-bus">show that the Albanese government is considering</a> reversing the fundamental rights of Australians under copyright law.</p><p>The proposal refers to an “opt-out model”.
AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.
National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery.
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. At $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, Google significantly undercuts OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, which should still sound more natural thanks to full duplex. The article Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work. From boardrooms to research labs, AI companies still have a data trust problem. The article AI labs have a data trust problem that their policies haven't solved appeared first on The Decoder .
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the […]
Essentially a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI.
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The Gates Foundation is investing at least a billion dollars over two years to make AI tools more widely available in health, education, and agriculture. Bill Gates warns that more than 90 percent of the training data behind early language models came from English sources, and that speech recognition fails 60 percent of the time in Yoruba. The market, he says, is "a terrible guarantor of equal opportunity." The article After warning AI is too dangerous, Bill Gates bets a billion on its upside ap
Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.
Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot for warehouses and factories. The article Agility Robotics says its new Digit 5 robot can work next to people without safety fences appeared first on The Decoder .
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks.
Apple is shipping its rebuilt "Siri AI" after years of delay, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on the device, partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with personal context. In the EU, the assistant stays unavailable for now. The article Apple brings a fully revamped Siri built on Google's Gemini, but not to the EU appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>First secretary to set out benefits of AI to union conference while vowing government will take safety seriously</p><p>Ministers must “heed the warnings” from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI as the government looks to capitalise on the technology, the first secretary, Louise Haigh, will say on Tuesday.</p><p>Labour MPs and peers have called for the government to further cooperate with international partners to build regulations for the technology after three Anthropic researcher
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez calls the initiative a "cartel by another name" designed to shut out competitors, and the White House and Trump himself are opposing the move. The article Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed slowdown is really about safety appeared first on The Decoder .
