Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads
Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads

Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automate…

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms

“We don’t want government to get in the middle,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC when asked about government stakes in AI companies. Michael appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 16 September. Asked whether the Tru…

Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports
Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports

“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one hacker told 404 Media. The hacker belongs to a collective called stegan0gram. The group pulled a Flock Safety camera down from above a roadway and…

Spain’s data watchdog reports its first breach carried out by an AI agent
Spain’s data watchdog reports its first breach carried out by an AI agent

“The arrival of AI agents in offensive activity must drive an immediate review of security and data protection models,” wrote Francisco Pérez Bes of Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD. The AEPD has received its first notification of a personal da…

Alexis Ohanian tells CNBC the tech industry has been tone deaf on AI
Alexis Ohanian tells CNBC the tech industry has been tone deaf on AI

“There are risks, I do think they’re more benign, or they’re more banal than people are thinking,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said on Wednesday. Ohanian spoke to CNBC about the debate over AI risk. He said the tech industry has done a “pretty ton…

Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly
Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly

“When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes,” Senator Bernie Sanders told the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Tuesday. Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Trump ally Steve Bannon both called for stronger AI oversight at the event, Reut…

OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data
OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data

“We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer,” OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the …

EU proposes Kids Act banning social media for under-13s and capping teen use at an hour a day
EU proposes Kids Act banning social media for under-13s and capping teen use at an hour a day

Strasbourg – The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, al…

Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor
Porsche’s wireless charging pad is on sale in Europe, and it bolts to the floor

Porsche has opened orders in Germany and other European markets for an 11 kW wireless charging pad for the Cayenne Electric, at EUR 6,961.49 for the floor pad and the car-side hardware together, with efficiency of up to 90%. The pad must be permanently…

GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window
GM’s new UI for trucks gives CarPlay its own window

GM is overhauling its infotainment interface on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto their own window alongside native apps rather than the whole screen, after saying phone mirroring would be removed from i…