The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine governm…
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users schedule messages between ten minutes and two weeks ahead, spotted in an Android beta by WaBetaInfo. The main business use for it, sending work messages outside hours, is regulated across much of Europe, an…
Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated …
China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-…
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake. An…
AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it said on Frida…
The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian. “Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact o…
Turkey will bar social media platforms from serving children under 15 from 1 November, under rules published in the country’s Official Gazette, Inci Ozbek reported for Bloomberg. Platforms must check users’ ages when they sign up, using a token from Tu…
The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White…
The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. “We shouldn’t depend solely on systems …