Anthropic has established a wet laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores using Claude to direct robotic equipment through physical biology experiments.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council next week as the 15-member body holds a meeting on artificial intelligence and international security.
Small UK food and craft businesses are being targeted by convincing festival impersonation scams as police record a 395% rise in fraud reports where victims identified AI as a factor.
London AI startup Mantic beat every human participant in the Summer 2026 Metaculus Cup and has raised $25 million to develop its forecasting technology.
AI errors have surfaced in at least 1,395 US court cases. The deeper problem is no longer hallucination alone, but professional workflows that allow unverified AI output to reach courts.
Reuters found Alibaba’s Qwen AI running as a search option on the Federal Register, raising a broader question about whether Washington knows which models are deployed inside federal services.
San Jose is courting AI data centres worth up to $6 million each in annual tax revenue, while residents demand greater scrutiny of their electricity, water, grid and pollution costs.
Two US senators want the FTC to investigate claims that Amazon and Walmart AI shopping assistants can identify questionable Made-in-USA claims without consistently surfacing them to shoppers.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Montana from enforcing its election-deepfake law against one PAC, finding it likely to succeed on a First Amendment viewpoint-discrimination claim.
Amazon has joined the frontier-AI safety debate, backing rigorous testing and strong safeguards while stopping short of calls to slow the pace of development.
