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Executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are expected at a royal AI summit focused on human dignity, safety and shared principles.
A draft EU Kids Act would restrict under-15s’ access to social media, AI chatbots, video platforms and online games while imposing age checks and design rules.
A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted unlawfully when it punished Anthropic after the AI company resisted unrestricted military use.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, arguing that safety questions make a flotation ill-advised for now.
Apple has introduced the book-style iPhone Duo at John Ternus’s first major product event as chief executive. The launch is both a new phone and a test of whether Apple can make foldables feel mainstream.
Jacob Coxon has left Anthropic after warning that competition between leading AI labs is creating unacceptable risks. His claims are serious and widely shared — but probability estimates about human extinction remain disputed judgments, not forecasts.
The 2026 Ig Nobel prizes have honoured research into cockroach milk, splash-free urinals, buried underwear, kissing, nose-blowing and mosquito-powered 3D printing. All of it is real science.
Muse Voice Transcribe combines live speech recognition, speaker separation and the ability to detect when somebody has finished talking. Meta says it can track more than 20 voices and switch languages without losing the thread.
Uber and Wayve have put 15 self-driving taxis into London service. The cars can steer themselves, but Britain is not quite ready to remove the emergency human.
Cursor's new owner has inherited a very expensive trust problem: OpenAI says direct model access could end on 12 November because it cannot trust Musk's companies to follow the contract.
Australia’s official charts will exclude wholly AI-generated tracks from Friday, although humans can still use AI as a supporting tool. The robots have been asked to leave the studio through the gift shop.
A humanoid completed 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at Beijing’s robot games. The machines are now faster than humanity, although stopping safely and completing the laundry remain difficult.