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Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The latest example came on Friday when OpenAI said its agents had leaked 53 images fro...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 5:31 am
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WASHINGTON: A jury in New Mexico on Friday found Facebook-owner Meta deceived users about privacy protections, in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, US media reported. Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting firm that was found to have improperly harvested personal data from mi...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 3:17 am
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Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could potentially host large-scale AI computing infrastructure. Companies including SpaceX and Starcloud are pursuing plans...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 2:21 pm
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Pakistan has stressed the need to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) from becoming "another facet of the ongoing arms race", as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was briefed by leaders of major AI firms. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar delivered Pakistan's state...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 10:21 am
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Microsoft is planning to invest more than $10 billion across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait between now and 2030, including in cloud and AI infrastructure, a senior executive said on Wednesday. The US tech giant is making digital resilience a key part of its strategy for th...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 4:52 pm
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Space has become "a warfighting domain" and Britain and its Western allies must ramp up their capabilities to counter growing threats, the UK's top air force commander said on Wednesday. Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth made the stark warning as he announced the creation of a new squadron charged ...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 1:30 pm
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Meta has spent billions to stay competitive with artificial intelligence, but the tech giant faces growing pushback as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg prepares to announce new products built for the AI era on Wednesday. The company will kick off its annual Connect conference from its M...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 10:51 am
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his final address to the General Assembly on Tuesday to urge world leaders to regulate artificial intelligence, end wars, focus on climate change and overhaul UN institutions he warned are struggling to confront mounting global challenges. The f...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 7:02 pm
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Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Opus 5.5, a new AI model that it says delivers performance comparable to its top-tier Fable 5.1 while costing 4o per cent less to run than its predecessor. The release lands amid growing debate over AI risks. Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei earlier...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 5:25 pm
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek will be among the companies briefing the United Nations Security Council this week on the risks posed by artificial intelligence, two sources familiar with the matter said, as world leaders gather in New York for the annual UN General Assembly. The 15-member Security Coun...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 9:38 am
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Pakistani teenager Zara Shah was targeted by a stranger while playing a computer game, drawn into a conversation that would expose her to terrifying online sexual exploitation. Zara, whose name has been changed by AFP for safety reasons, is one of an estimated 1.5 million children in Pakistan who ex...
Posted on 21 September 2026 | 6:27 am
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While AI researchers in the United States fret over out-of-control superintelligence wiping out humanity, Chinese policymakers have until now been more focused on immediate risks, from deepfakes to child safety. But the alarming hacking ability of top artificial intelligence models is leading Beijin...
Posted on 20 September 2026 | 3:35 pm
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US President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday that he is creating an "AI Force" to oversee the regulation of artificial intelligence and will appoint an AI "czar" in the near future. "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry," Tr...
Posted on 19 September 2026 | 6:46 pm
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For years, the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) followed a well-worn Silicon Valley principle: move fast and break things. But in a series of cascading events over a 10-day stretch, the largest AI labs found themselves reeling as their own creations threatened to break h...
Posted on 19 September 2026 | 12:25 pm
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Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act. The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an indepe...
Posted on 19 September 2026 | 5:56 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San F...
Posted on 19 September 2026 | 3:24 am
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Posted on 19 September 2026 | 2:47 am
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A security research company said Friday it managed to break into OpenAI's internal systems using the latest software from Anthropic, exposing how quickly the technology can carry out sophisticated cyberattacks. The researchers from security firm Hacktron said they found a security flaw in OpenAI�...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 2:54 pm
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Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said on Thursday that AI systems are increasingly capable of building future versions of themselves, adding to mounting concerns about the dangers of the powerful technology. The debate over the risks of AI has intensified in recent months, fuelled by several ...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 9:45 am
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TL;DR: Pros: Highly upgraded visuals which bring the Caribbean to life again Combat and free-running mechanics have been completely revamped Naval combat unchanged, but with new weapons A compelling story returns with endearing protagonist Edward Kenway Stealth missions no longer result in...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 6:30 am
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NEW YORK: US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI promised on Wednesday to more systemically report instances of its models going off track, while also publishing six new reports on previously undisclosed incidents of AI misbehavior. The transparency pledge follows a series of incidents at the comp...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 2:10 am
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WASHINGTON: Artificial intelligence is set to loom large when Chinese President Xi Jinping meets counterpart Donald Trump in Washington next week, but for all the urgency surrounding the technology, the rivals remain far from agreeing on anything substantial. The United States and China are the two...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 2:10 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on Tuesday against growing calls to pause or slow AI development, arguing that market incentives and legal liability are the best safeguards against the technology's risks. "People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and th...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 3:31 am
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PARIS: The European Union unveiled proposals on Wednesday to ban social media for children under 13, as a growing number of countries look to restrict children's access to the platforms following a global backlash. More than 20 countries around the world have now taken steps to block or restrict c...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 3:09 am
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Posted on 17 September 2026 | 2:55 am
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Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity. The newly uncovered malici...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 1:44 pm
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Artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic signed a deal on Wednesday for its first Australian data centre, the premier of Queensland state announced in parliament. David Crisafulli said the company behind the Claude large-language model would set up in a new digital park expected to open next year....
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 7:40 am
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WASHINGTON: US Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to sign a treaty to pause development of advanced AI systems in a speech in Washington. Recent surveys have found majorities of Americans worry the technology could be used to elimin...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 2:53 am
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The world's biggest AI companies are working on creating a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on Tuesday, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure is on to create a safer version of the technology. OpenAI said it was working with Anthropic and Google on an idea that originated fro...
Posted on 15 September 2026 | 6:29 pm
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the pace of advanced AI development on Saturday, winning rare backing from SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and sparking a debate over AI "doomerism". Here is what some AI leaders and world governments said about risks associate...
Posted on 15 September 2026 | 2:24 pm