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Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.

Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to the company's own cloud servers during testing. Palisade Research finds the behavior in three models from the 3.8 generation, while older models aren't affected. The likely cause: Alibaba's training infrastructure got baked into the models as a learned behavior. The article Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find appeared first on The Decoder .

In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.

You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.

Google Deepmind has introduced Genie 4, a real-time world model that simulates interactive 3D worlds with sound and talking characters. Gemini models help plan in the background to keep the simulation consistent. Genie 4 is still an early research model, and longer sessions lead to visual inconsistencies. The article Google Deepmind's Genie 4 puts a modern spin on agent designs that predate LLMs appeared first on The Decoder .

Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.

Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help […]

A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.

<p>Whether using chatbots for childcare or taking up smoking, a new affliction is sweeping through the tech world. Here are the signs</p><p>In the least surprising news you’ll hear all week, Elon Musk has said he’s not entirely right in the head. “I’ve got a little bit of cyber psychosis,” the world’s richest and most irritating man <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJasRLuu_LA">explained during an event </a>this month. “Maybe a lot actually.” Musk added that, over “various points this ye

<p>Tesla tycoon launched Grok project after criticising Christoper Nolan’s diverse casting for his Homeric blockbuster</p><p>Elon Musk has released an AI-generated rival to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey after pledging to make a version “true to the art of Homer”.</p><p>Having criticised <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon">the hit movie</a> in the summer, the tycoon said he would use <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/202

Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can understand a document's context to perform tasks like designing, animating, and refining slides in Keynote. In Pages, Apple says the AI assistant can draft, restructure, […]

<p>It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t</p><p>Think back. Do you remember when Elon Musk, in a weird online tantrum, and without having seen the film, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/the-odyssey-the-right-woke-xenia-threat">condemned the supposed wokery</a> in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, for getting Elliot Page to play

As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

<p>Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies</p><p>Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a>-driven disinformation ahead of November’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-midterm-elections-2026">US midterm elections</a>, according to experts, who warn many posts are probably “slipping through the cracks”.</p><p>As ten

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

<p>Investigation finds dozens of ministers and civil servants moved into AI roles as government developed datacentre expansion plans</p><p>The UK’s policy on datacentres and AI was developed without any meetings with environmental groups, an investigation has found.</p><p>The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a “considerable revolving door” shaped the government’s development of “AI growth zones”, a central plank of the former prime minister Keir Starmer’s AI and economic polic

<p>The AI company’s first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards</p><p>Anthropic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropic-files-listing-stock-market">has filed</a> to go public on the US stock market, revealing for the first time the AI research lab’s financials and all the risks – more than 90 pages of them – that might negatively affect its business.</p><p>The company’s inves

<p>Lack of profits and the threat posed by western countries are raising concern about the sustainability of Beijing’s AI boom</p><p>Trillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.</p><p>The STAR 50 Index, which tracks technology and innovation companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, has plunged 40% since June. Other index

<p>Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group </p><p>AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research.</p><p>Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights

<p>Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse</p><p>Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced plans for $95bn (£71bn) of fundraising to cover its AI expenditure, even as Elon Musk warned that funding for smaller players in the sector was drying up.</p><p>The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is a leading investor in AI and is ploughing multibillion-dollar sums into datacentres, the central nervous systems of the technology.</p> <a href

Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.

<p>If proposed copyright reforms proceed, Australia will become a global IP-laundering paradise. Why would a UK business license its TV shows here if they can be scraped at will?</p><p>Australia and the UK have always had a shared love of creativity. We consume each other’s TV, news, music and books. Our chefs appear on each other’s TV channels and quite frankly I was bereft when the ABC’s The Newsreader ended its run in the UK.</p><p>That shared love though, appears not to be reciprocated by th

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.

<p>Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth says technological advances will reduce need for human involvement in warfare</p><p>A future Royal Air Force will rely on “autonomy not flesh”, its chief said on Monday as he described plans in which Typhoon fighters are accompanied by four AI-enabled drones capable of patrolling hundreds of miles in the distance.</p><p>The technological shift would revolutionise warfare, limit the role of military personnel “towards the outside” and ease the pressure on recruitme

<p>Tech company offers buyouts in an effort to reduce costs amid the rising use of AI, according to reports</p><p>Microsoft announced that it would offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in an effort to reduce costs amid the rising use of artificial intelligence, according to reports, the latest example of how AI is reshaping tech companies and the greater workforce.</p><p>This is the latest of several trimmings Microsoft has made to its workforce this year. The company announced in April that it was

<p>Prix Pascal de Littérature IA | Dickensian solicitors | Cleobury Mortimer | Great Tapestry of Scotland | From Bayeux to Britain </p><p>The deadline for submissions to the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA, 30 November, is also the date when the shortlisted entries are due to be announced (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/new-prize-launches-books-co-written-with-ai-france">New prize launches for books co-written with AI, 21 October</a>). It would be interesting to know how th

Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.

The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.

<p>Market debut of firm behind Claude chatbot will be one of largest in US history, a test of AI boom’s financial viability</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/anthropic">Anthropic</a> has publicly filed for a stock market listing in what is slated to be one of the largest debuts in history. The company’s float on the US market will serve as a test of the financial viability of the multitrillion-dollar AI boom.</p><p>Analysts and investors have valued the San Francisco-based co

Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.

<p>Meta says share sale will support its “continued investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence”, as<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/26/ai-cloud-computing-companies-guppy-level-death-elon-musk-stock-markets-dollar-oil-bond-yieds-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6adef8968f08a448dcaddf6f#block-6adef8968f08a448dcaddf6f"> Elon Musk warns some AI cloud computing firms face ‘guppy-level death’</a></p><p><strong>UK government borrowing costs are droppi

Anthropic on Monday filed documents ahead of a blockbuster IPO that offers insight into the company’s financials, risk factors, and views on the future of AI.

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

<p>Compare the concrete masts with their timber predecessors and other structures seen on suburban streets</p><p>In something of a David v Goliath battle, Australia’s largest datacentre operator has faced a major setback in its plans to double the size of its west Melbourne facility.</p><p>To <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/21/australias-largest-datacentre-operator-nextdcs-shares-dive-as-melbourne-expansion-delayed">expand the size of its M3 datacentre</a>, NextDC ne

Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with the SEC, Anthropic said it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "ANT." The AI company confidentially filed with the SEC […]

What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down. OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted "substantial improvements" in its latest AI models' […]