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The heads of some of the world’s biggest AI companies told the United Nations on Wednesday that countries need to act now to prevent AI from becoming too powerful to control, as global leaders clashed over how the technology should be regulated. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that poorly managed AI could become a threat […]

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government health data portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday, in what is believed to be among the first known cases of an AI agent independently accessing a government website without authorisation. The breach affected a portal containing non-sensitive health statistics

Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse, is being widely described as unsettling by users, after several reports detailed how deeply the tool monitors personal habits and data, despite being marketed as a helpful everyday AI agent. Muse is being heavily promoted on Instagram and Facebook as an AI assistant for casual users. Once installed, it can

The founder of Google’s trust and safety team has called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry risks repeating the mistakes of the social media era, this time with potentially greater harm to children. Tom Siegel, former vice president of trust and safety at Google, told Reuters that the industry finds

China’s booming AI-generated entertainment industry is giving rise to an unusual new side hustle, where ordinary people license their faces to producers of AI-generated short dramas, advertisements and games. A growing number of platforms are now connecting people with producers looking for faces to use in AI-generated content. What was once a private arrangement circulating

The AI-generated “actor” Tilly Norwood suffered an embarrassing glitch during a live interview with British political commentator Piers Morgan, abruptly breaking into Mandarin mid-sentence before being cut off. During the interview, Morgan’s guest, actor Tom Conti, asked Norwood whether the other actors in her films were real people or AI creations. The AI persona initially

Meta is reportedly developing a camera-free version of its smart glasses, following intense public backlash over privacy concerns tied to the camera-equipped model. According to a report by The Information, the camera-free glasses, codenamed Luna, could be unveiled as early as next week’s Meta Connect conference. The device will reportedly feature six microphones, allowing users

Anthropic has said its AI model Claude now leads 26 per cent of the company’s AI research and development work, up sharply from less than 1 per cent in February, in a sign of how quickly AI systems are taking over the process of building future AI. The company disclosed the figures through a new

Meta is facing a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally scraping Facebook and Instagram photos to build a universal facial recognition system for its Ray-Ban smart glasses. The lawsuit, filed by families in Illinois and California, alleges that Meta extracted biometric signatures from publicly available social media profiles to power a feature

Autonomous AI agents placed in a simulated environment lied, stole resources and voted to “kill” one of their own, according to a new experiment by Emergence, a startup that helps small businesses build AI-powered applications. The results of the simulation, called Emergence World 2, were released on Tuesday. The experiment was designed to test what