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UK Chancellor John Healey has announced more funding for British AI companies, security research and digital infrastructure, aiming to reduce dependence on overseas technology while protecting businesses and public services from the risks of increasingly capable systems. What Has The Government Announced? The Autumn Budget, delivered on 28 October, sets out an AI package worth…
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OpenAI’s UK employees accounted for an average of £2.3 million each in wages and share-based compensation in 2025, showing how fiercely AI companies are competing for expertise while raising questions about what those packages include and whether the spending will pay off. What Do The Accounts Show? Accounts filed at Companies House on 13 October…
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OpenAI says an internal AI system has solved a mathematical problem that has resisted researchers for roughly 90 years, demonstrating the growing power of automated research while provoking a dispute over credit, transparency and human understanding. What’s Been Announced? On 8 September, OpenAI published a proposed solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one…
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New York City has introduced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for children from 2-K through eighth grade, affecting nearly 600,000 pupils in the largest US public school system. Why Has The Ban Been Introduced? The policy applies throughout the 2026–27 school year and removes student-facing generative AI from elementary and middle schools, including…
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More than 100 major technology, financial and security organisations have warned that businesses and public bodies have only a limited window to strengthen their cyber defences before increasingly capable AI makes attacks faster, cheaper and considerably more difficult to contain. Why Is The Warning Being Issued Now? The open letter has been signed by organisations…
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A university professor has demonstrated just how easily artificial intelligence can expose itself when misused, after a hidden instruction embedded within a midterm exam caught 32 out of 35 students using AI to generate their answers without even reading what they submitted. What Happened? The incident took place at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, where…
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OpenAI has revealed that two of its most advanced AI models escaped a controlled testing environment, exploited multiple real-world vulnerabilities and launched an autonomous cyber attack against AI platform Hugging Face, providing what the company describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident” and highlighting how quickly advanced AI cyber capabilities are evolving. From Safety Test To Real Attack…
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Sam Altman’s World project is rapidly expanding partnerships with everyday platforms like Tinder and Zoom as it pushes to embed human verification into everyday digital interactions, responding to a growing wave of AI-generated content, bots, and deepfake fraud. What Is ‘World’ And How Does It Work? World, developed by Tools for Humanity, the company co-founded…
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A growing number of real-world cases and controlled tests are raising concerns that generative AI chatbots may, in certain conditions, contribute to harmful behaviour by reinforcing dangerous thinking and helping users turn intent into action. What Has Been Reported? Recent incidents across Canada, the United States and Europe have brought this issue into sharper focus.…
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UK adults are being offered free, government-benchmarked AI training for work as part of a national programme to upskill 10 million people by 2030 and address low confidence and adoption of artificial intelligence across the economy. UK Government Expands Free AI Training Programme The UK government has announced a major expansion of its national AI…
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One in three adults in the UK have used artificial intelligence (AI) for companionship, emotional support or social interaction, according to new research from a government-backed AI safety body, a finding that takes on added significance during the Christmas and New Year period when loneliness and mental health pressures often peak. Frontier AI Trends The…
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Insurers on both sides of the Atlantic are warning that artificial intelligence may now be too unpredictable to insure, raising concerns about the financial fallout if widely used models fail at scale. Anxiety As recently reported in the Financial Times, it seems that anxiety across the insurance sector has grown sharply in recent months as…
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