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How AI apps are offering free substitutes for Big Tech software

AI-developed ArtCraft is challenging Adobe after disrupting legacy software's economic model.

What we know about OpenAI engineer arrested over office spying

Saudi OpenAI employee was arrested over allegations he planted a hidden device to record sensitive company conversations

Rockefeller Foundation, OpenAI Foundation Announce $50 Million Partnership To Help Cities Improve Public Services Through AI

Hannah Fry: How OpenAI has caused an existential crisis in mathematics

He linked Saudi Arabia to Silicon Valley. Then OpenAI found a bug wrapped in toilet paper

What Allegations of Spying at OpenAI Mean for the A.I. Industry

Cyber: how big a threat are AI agents?

Apple and OpenAI head to court in trade secrets battle

Health workers tackle taboos over drinking with new AI tool

A new AI-powered hub for health professionals aims to help identify alcohol-related risks and launch discussions with patients, including the link between drinking and cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday.

OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say

Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI

Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.

Nvidia, worth $5.5tn, donates $250m to UK for AI safety research

Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risenThe $5.5tn (£4.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research.The donation from the world’s most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security Institute, which tests advance AI models, will be able to examine cut

AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how | Richard Wilson and Clara Long

A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversightWhat’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is rising among tech bosses.On 25 September, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models as reports of AI agents going rogue mounted. A day l

Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism

From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake up call about the threats to reproductive care facilities. For the FBI, tho

OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper

Bank of England and IMF bosses issue stark warning on cyber threat to trust

Andrew Bailey and Kristalina Georgieva voice concerns about financial system on panel about online fraud Business live – latest updatesThe heads of the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have issued a stark warning that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in the financial system.Speaking on a panel about online fraud at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the gover

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back | AI (artificial intelligence)

We’ve raised $8m to use generative AI to save our kids from YouTube

Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs

Is the internet finally unusable? Time to go back to faxes and landlines | First Dog on the Moon

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