The AI desk
Research, products, policy and the companies behind them — our own reporting alongside an editor-curated group of AI publications, each named on the story.
With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a…
AI NewsWe would like to speak to people about their experience of using AI agents when dealing with their finances Following the release of Meta’s Muse and Open AI’s dots there’s now capacity for…
AI NewsArm Holdings chief executive Rene Haas believes artificial intelligence could help find a cure for cancer within his lifetime, BBC News, The Guardian and Yahoo Finance reported. His remarks…
AI NewsNew alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you…
AI NewsStarting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now…
AI NewsWith the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
AI NewsThe reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
AI NewsThe findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial…
AI NewsAn unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the…
AI NewsThe author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”
AI NewsCampaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all…
AI NewsCampaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met…
AI NewsGoogle may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling"…
AI NewsTrust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
AI NewsPeople in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app…
AI NewsThis past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected…
AI NewsThe tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
AI NewsFollowing many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have…
AI NewsAn invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking…
AI NewsAn OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted…
AI NewsSam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad…
AI NewsIt labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
AI NewsFor all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the…
AI NewsWhat does it take to build a future that works for everyone? As a Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Champion, Debjani Ghosh has spent her career thinking about how innovation can create…
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