Google is opening Google Home to third-party AI agents that can inspect devices, monitor activity and execute control actions, while warning they may behave unexpectedly.
Mark Zuckerberg rejects a coordinated AI slowdown, arguing that competition, liability and independent safety decisions give individual labs sufficient incentives to act safely.
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents that let ChatGPT users move from an advert into a clearly labelled conversation with an AI representative of the advertiser.
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Dutch prosecutors want a Syrian asylum recipient jailed for 17½ years, alleging he was an ISIS security chief whose name had appeared publicly before he received Dutch residency.
The government is considering a specific doxxing offence after RNLI volunteers, police officers and journalists had personal information posted online during anti-migrant protests.
A Houthi offensive involving an estimated 100,000 fighters has routed Saudi-backed forces and strengthened the Iran-aligned movement around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that teaching advanced AI systems to consider themselves conscious or deserving of welfare could make them harder to control or shut down.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure says calls to slow AI development risk protecting the US companies already leading the race, arguing Europe should accelerate instead.
Huawei forecasts around 900 billion active AI agents worldwide by 2035, as autonomous software increasingly communicates and carries out tasks for other machines.
