Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law
Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the fe…

Microsoft says its AI models will never resist being shut down
Microsoft says its AI models will never resist being shut down

Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models “will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown”. The document went up on Monday alongside a six-week …

Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries
Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries

Intrepid Growth Partners has closed its first fund at $525m and launched formally from offices in Toronto and London. Mark Machin, Mark Shulgan and Ajay Agrawal founded the firm in 2023, and it already holds nine portfolio companies, among them Physics…

A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports
A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved i…

‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest
‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two lette…

Only 6% of teachers say their school’s AI policy is clear
Only 6% of teachers say their school’s AI policy is clear

Four in five American students already use AI for schoolwork, and half of their schools have no policy at all. Stanford’s data shows that the fastest adoption is happening well away from the countries writing the rules. Four out of five American high s…

China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…

OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before Hugging Face
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before Hugging Face

OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation fol…

Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct kno…

Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop
Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop

Russia turned Claude into a tool for weapons development, espionage, and propaganda, Anthropic’s new threat report claims.