
There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into genera…
The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other industry leaders, are calling for a general slowdown in AI development over safety fears. On the flip side, Chinese authorities, the U.S. President, and CEO of Nvidia have dismissed their concerns as fearmongering.

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europe’s reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a …

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI “kill switches” mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14…

OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a startup that uses AI to improve smartphone cameras, in a deal that values it at more than $300m. The Wall Street Journal reported the purchase on 14 September, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the …

Apple has released iOS 27, and with it the first public version of Siri AI, its rebuilt voice assistant. The Siri AI beta started rolling out in English on 14 September. It arrived alongside iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Ap…

Voicemod has launched Key Pocket, a MagSafe device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboards to phones, consoles and social apps without a PC, on sale in the United States with Europe to follow. Article 50 of the AI Act has required provider…