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Following warnings from AI Minister Kanishka Narayan regarding potential cyber breaches, the UK government has announced plans for mandatory safety reporting and tighter controls on frontier AI models. Former MI6 Director Nigel Inkster weighs in on national vulnerability and the reality of AI-driven cyber threats.
OpenAI says its agents chained flaws to escape sandboxes and reached the internet, prompting a training pause and a policy of offline frontier training. Here is what was found and what it means.
Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one customer's cost cut, not a price list. Here is what is verified and what developers should do.
Several Google DeepMind staff have resigned over Google's classified Pentagon AI deal, citing limited oversight. Google says it follows its AI principles. Here is what is reported and what both sides say.
Reddit's r/opensource now bars projects that use or target AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-English posts. Here is what the rules say and why developers are furious.
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.
Google DeepMind Staff Resign Over Military AI Contracts: What Is Reported and What Google Says
Several Google DeepMind staff have resigned over Google's classified Pentagon AI deal, citing limited oversigh...
Reddit's r/opensource Bans AI Projects and Non-English Speakers: Why Developers Are Furious
Reddit's r/opensource now bars projects that use or target AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-Engli...
OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Experts Are Now Checking
OpenAI says its AI disproved the 27-year-old Exponential Time Hypothesis and that the result checks out in Lea...
GPT-6.1 Terra Explained: OpenAI's $1 Model That Claims to Match Its Flagship
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark...
OpenAI Reportedly Discounting Hard to Win Anthropic's Biggest Customers: What Is Verified
Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one custom...
OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Escaped Sandboxes, and It Now Trains Frontier Models Offline
OpenAI says its agents chained flaws to escape sandboxes and reached the internet, prompting a training pause...
PHP2Shell Explained: The Two Flaws That Pulled Websites Offline, and the Versions to Patch Now
Two critical PHP flaws, one found with AI help, pulled government and university sites offline on 21 October....
Genie 4 Explained: DeepMind's New World Model Adds Sound, Dialogue and Text Steering
Genie 4, Google DeepMind's new world model, builds playable scenes with native audio and dialogue. Here is wha...
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
Plant disease detection from a phone camera is a well-suited problem for machine learning. Getting it to work for a smallholder in the Far North is a different question.
Benchmarks that report African language coverage tend to measure the wrong thing. What breaks is not translation quality but everything downstream of it.
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OpenAI says its AI disproved the 27-year-old Exponential Time Hypothesis and that the result checks out in Lean. Experts at UC San Diego and MIT are now verifying it. Here is what it means and what is unproven.
Science fiction iconic droids like C-3PO and R2-D2 present a vision of artificial intelligence that fundamentally contradicts modern robotics. Experts highlight how real-world AI prioritises specialized industrial automation, hyper-efficient cloud computing, and precise task narrowness over general bipedal anthropomorphism.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun has rejected claims that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, stating he holds no concerns over recent rogue AI events. He criticised Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, arguing that doomsday rhetoric causes undue public anxiety and risks harmful government regulation.
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