“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s Lond…
“Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead D…
“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco int…
Poland summoned Google, Meta, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram on Friday and told them to do more to stop violent content from spreading after knife attacks at schools, Reuters reported. Elon Musk’s X was also invited but did not attend. The attacks took …
China’s commerce and science ministries proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents, chip designs, and computing clusters, to the country’s export control list. Open-source tech is exempt and overseas users can still access model…
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have made it easier to switch cloud providers but still have more to do, the UK competition watchdog said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also proposed bringing Microsoft under its toughest digit…
Meta has published the weights for Muse Spark Open, a coding and agent model it says is less advanced than the Muse Wonder frontier model it launched on Monday. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said Meta will generally not open-source its most powerful m…
Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Wednesday, a cart that sits inside Search and the Gemini app, holds products from multiple retailers and takes the payment through Google Pay. Its own roadmap names Canada, Australia and the UK for expansion,…
SpaceX agreed to pay about $8B for nationwide low-band US spectrum, and shares in AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell on the news. Europe’s equivalent band comes up for selection in May 2027, with Brussels proposing that two-thirds of it be reserved fo…
The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU’s €890M (about $1bn) fine in July. The Commission confirmed the talks on Wednesday to Reuters. The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DM…