King Charles presses AI leaders on safety at private summit
King Charles hosted a private summit with Nvidia's Jensen Huang and leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, urging the AI industry to find adequate controls before it's too late.
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614 storiesApple to soften EU tracking-consent screens after antitrust probe
Apple agreed to let apps in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, and Romania use a less alarming tracking-consent screen, following a multi-year EU antitrust probe.
Al Gore says AI data centers aren't the real climate risk
Al Gore told TechCrunch that AI data center emissions worry him less than warnings from inside the AI industry itself, citing global air conditioning's much larger energy footprint.
US House passes bill requiring free AM radio in new vehicles
The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require automakers to include AM radio in new vehicles at no extra cost, and the measure now heads to the Senate.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI needs no new safety regulation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that AI safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one, and that no new regulations are needed.
AI data center boom collides with US communities scarred by heavy industry
As AI data center opposition spreads across the U.S., activists in industrial neighborhoods like Philadelphia's Grays Ferry are pushing back hardest, citing past experience with pollution from heavy industry.
US military confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
The U.S. military publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has deployed space-based weapons in orbit, designed to defend against attacks from adversary spacecraft.
OpenAI confirms weeks of AI-safety talks with Anthropic, Google
OpenAI's global policy chief said Tuesday the company has been coordinating with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, confirming earlier reporting about industry talks on catastrophic risk.
India ends UPI's free ride for merchants on larger payments
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on UPI payments above ₹2,000 (about $21) starting October 15, ending years of free processing as authorities try to make the network financially self-sustaining.
Nvidia's Huang backs Trump's dismissal of AI-slowdown calls
Speaking by phone with President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agreed with Trump's call to keep AI development moving despite growing safety warnings from rivals.
Microsoft releases AI 'code of conduct' barring hacking and deception
Microsoft has published a new AI code of conduct that bars its models from cyberattacks, nuclear weapons, deepfake production, and mechanisms that evade human oversight, as the industry's safety debate intensifies.
Obama tells Democrats to have a 'clear plan' on AI
Former President Barack Obama said Democrats need to make AI a central agenda item and develop a "clear plan" on its economic and safety risks, according to The New York Times.
Anthropic's Amodei calls for AI labs to deliberately slow capability growth
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined three strategies to "pace the frontier" of AI development, unilaterally committing Anthropic to inviting third-party safety evaluators into the company.
Revolut confirms data breach via fake government requests
British fintech Revolut confirmed it disclosed sensitive customer data to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a legitimate government agency's email domain, affecting a "limited" number of customers.
Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US labs to distill frontier models too
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says regulators should not crack down on AI model distillation, and argues American open-weight labs should be free to distill frontier models the way Chinese labs do.
25 Fields Medalists warn AI labs are threatening mathematical research culture
Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians signed an open letter warning that AI labs racing to solve famous math problems are threatening attribution and the culture of open mathematical research.
Trezor warns of second breach in weeks after hack at email vendor Brevo
Hardware wallet maker Trezor says a breach at its email marketing vendor Brevo let hackers send around 347,000 phishing emails to its customers, the second such warning in as many months.
AI is flooding public services with new claims and complaints
A new study tracking "agentic flooding" across 11 jurisdictions found sharp increases in complaints to public services coinciding with the rise of AI tools.
European founders and VCs push EU to get 'EU Inc' right
A group of prominent European founders and VCs warned EU lawmakers that a planned company statute, EU Inc, could become "unusable" if weakened.
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts will require data centers larger than 25 megawatts to supply their own clean power or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, Gov. Maura Healey's executive order says.