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AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of […]

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

<p>Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence</p><p>Does artificial superintelligence really pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons? Is there a significant chance of “a Chornobyl-sized catastrophe”. Might there even be a greater than 10% chance that AI could “kill all humans” in the next decade?</p><p>These warnings were issued over the past 48 hours on both sides of the Atlantic about the potential impact of a technology that most peop

Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.

Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it […]

Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space.

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how […]

<p>Cameron Stanley talks up ‘revolutionary’ AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partners</p><p>The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military’s adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made along the way.</p><p>“They don’t have the resources that we do, they don’t have the experience that we do, they don’t have the scale

A team-up with Waymo in Nashville has former Lyft drivers maintaining self-driving cars. What’s next?

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on […]

<p>The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/09/coalition-victoria-energy-bills-labor-one-nation-super-digital-duty-of-care-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/w4

<p>Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours</p><p>OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.</p><p>The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems <a href="https://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/">published by the Clay Mathematics

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

<p>Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnership</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/30/big-tech-hollywood-the-social-reckoning-artificial">Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?</a></p></li></ul><p>The first teaser trailer of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/luca-guadagnino">Luca Guadagnino</a>’s Artificial has been released.</p><p>After <a href="https

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called AlphaGenome Atlas, contains a "predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in […]

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

<p>Rene Haas also claims artificial intelligence could pave way for widespread use of humanoid robots within five years</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/sep/08/oil-price-approaches-100-a-barrel-saudi-attacks-bank-of-england-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>The boss of one of the UK’s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer “in our lifetime”.</p><p>Rene Haas, chief executive of the chi

<p>The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents</p><p>When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/how-an-openai-benchmark-test-turned-into-a-real-world-cyberattack/">agents</a> were involved. The truth, a <a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-in

A new generation of Islamic terror supporters are using AI to spread ‘Slop Jihad’ to new audiences on TikTok.

<p><strong>Dr Mary Gibbs </strong>says there are a number of problems with AI, particularly its tendency to misunderstand, as <strong>Debbie Cameron </strong>can attest</p><p>I am an out-of-hours GP, and I am glad to see a news report on this issue, which has been causing me increasing concern at work (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/31/doctors-ai-scribes-get-names-of-drugs-and-diagnoses-wrong-nhs-watchdog-warns">Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, N

<p>Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company </p><p>The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, in a move senior MPs called a “clear conflict of interest”.</p><p>Matt Clifford <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/architect-of-uks-ai-strategy-joins-anthropic">announced last week</a> th

When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

<p>Firms are more likely to use technology as ‘the intern in the office’ than as a replacement for skilled staff</p><p>Professional designers should not feel “threatened” by the rapid growth of generative AI, according to business leaders, despite fears over job losses in the sector.</p><p>With design and film production companies and manufacturers all adopting AI at an accelerating pace, industry bodies said the technology would be used to enhance the work of designers rather than replace them.

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

<p>Consumers are increasingly encountering AI-generated images on food menus such as leathery meat and bread resembling reptile skin</p><p>During a recent lunch break, Jill Sennett saw something so unappetizing she had to share it with <a href="https://x.com/Buffalojilll/status/2091962315357012251?s=20">her 26,000 X followers</a>: Artificial intelligence-generated menu images from a Jamaican barbecue pop-up restaurant in which the meats looked like leather belts crawling with tiny beetles.</p><p

Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a clinical diagnosis. By OpenAI's own self-reported numbers, about 560,000 users show signs of psychosis or mania each week. Sycophantic chatbots can create an "echo chamber of one" that reinforces delusions. The article Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?</p><p>When I was growing up, my dad and I often talked about a story we wanted to write together. It was called “The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland”. One day, the story goes, the weather is so perfect that everyone in the world decides to stay away from Disneyland because they expect it to be far too busy. But my dad, who has the sa

I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I’ve forgotten Siri AI even exists.

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available. Internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans got pulled forward by six months. The article OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries. According to Artificial Analysis, it delivers the most accurate streaming transcription at the lowest price in the market. Meta sees the model as a building block for personal AI agents that listen in on real conversations through devices like its camera glasses. The article Meta's new real-time a