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Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.

Sitting in his Paris flat, Noé Campo reads the transcript of an exchange between an AI chatbot and a real person. The conversation took place on Seewa AI, the companion chatbot platform he built in three weeks. The exchange is intimate, personal and private. Or so the person thought.

A number of UK police forces have been told to stop using AI systems to prepare court statements and carry out other criminal justice tasks, after concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal proceedings.

A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page.

New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test case against the firm over demeaning sexualized material created by its Grok AI tool.

Britain’s attempts to harness fusion energy could trigger a nuclear disaster, official documents reveal.

Labour MP Jess Asato has stated she is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI over the design of its Grok chatbot tool after it was used to create fake images of her wearing a bikini.

A controversial billionaire-backed AI startup will allow rich people to target journalists for publishing stories they don’t like.

A British Paralympian and surgeon may become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit following a government agreement with a US company constructing a small commercial space station.

The new technology is expected to be ready by 2027 and is designed to help defend critical subsea cables and pipelines.

In a remote desert region of China, a vast military complex is being constructed that some security experts believe is designed to ensure China retains the ability to respond to any potential U.S. first strike against its nuclear arsenal.

In a Utah office, hundreds of Tesla workers scrutinize video collected by vehicles using the automaker’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature. Some clips show the cars hitting cats, dogs or deer, along with more-routine accidents.

The first missions aimed at building a base on the moon will be launched before the end of the year, NASA leaders announced Tuesday.

Software tools that remove safety protections from AI models developed by Meta, Google, and other tech groups are being used to create thousands of altered versions stripped of their original controls.

SpaceX revealed its plans to list on the US stock market on Wednesday, presenting its investor prospectus and detailing its financials for the first time.

Defence companies and marine contractors are preparing to deploy uncrewed mine-clearing systems in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday.

Mozilla’s latest Firefox security update provides a rare glimpse into what happens when frontier AI capabilities reach defenders before attackers.

London announced sanctions on 35 new targets to block the supply of restricted components to Russian drone factories.

China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence app Manus, as Washington and Beijing vie for dominance over the emerging technology.

Google is planning to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence firm confirmed Friday, expanding a long-standing alliance between the two companies.

SpaceX announced it has secured an option to acquire the code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or alternatively pay $10 billion for their new partnership, as it ventures further into the lucrative market for AI developer tools.

OpenAI has launched a cybersecurity-focused model to a limited group of users, just a week after a similar release by its rival Anthropic, as concerns grow over AI’s potential to exploit software vulnerabilities.

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