A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show th…
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle the state’s lawsuit over the app’s effect on children, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said on Friday. The case had been due to go to trial on Monday. The first payment is due within 45…
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade tru…
Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August…
Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a “useful idiot” for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope’s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner on the MD Meets podcast, released on Thu…
The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request. Ins…
A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthro…
Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6…
Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is “unrealistic” to slow down AI development, because “not everybody is going to pace themselves”. He made the comments on CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC’s Arjun Kha…
The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official…