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Trump and Republican allies rail against AI controls despite growing calls for more checks – live
Donald Trump has hit back at growing calls for stronger oversight of artificial intelligence, alleging a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centres and insisting his administration is already preventing AI firms from acting harmfully. The row comes as senior Republicans and administration figures push back against regulation despite some AI company chief executives themselves…
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Spy chief warns AI threatens party as Beijing rejects US calls
China has rejected as “fearmongering” calls from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei for the US to actively hinder Beijing’s progress in artificial intelligence, even as one of its own top intelligence officials publicly warned that AI could pose a threat to Communist party rule. The exchange highlights growing anxiety on both sides of the US-China…
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Bentley-driving company boss fails in bid to have historic Rolls-Royce blue plaque removed from gate posts of his £3million Cheshire mansion
Car dealer Reginald Rix has failed in his bid to remove a historic blue plaque from his £3million Cheshire mansion, which commemorates the property’s links to Rolls-Royce co-founder Sir Henry Royce. Mr Rix, who founded the Warrington-based Rix Motor Group, bought the listed former home of the motoring pioneer in Knutsford last year, despite his…
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Woman fatally shot by stalker outside Sacramento restaurant, suspect dies
Police in Sacramento, California, have released footage showing 38-year-old Shalini Thakur being chased down and shot dead by an obsessive stalker outside a Panera Bread restaurant on 8 September. The attacker, 22-year-old Rohit Rohit, an Indian national who had entered the US illegally in 2023, then fled by car before shooting himself dead as deputies…
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Philadelphia CEO sentenced for defrauding pandemic relief programmes of half million dollars
Treva Harris, a 50-year-old CEO who went viral for staging an extravagant Cinderella-themed prom send-off for her daughter in Philadelphia, has been jailed for a year after defrauding COVID-19 relief programmes of more than half a million dollars. Harris fraudulently obtained funds through the US Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan and Paycheck Protection…
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Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has warned that Europe must urgently develop its own artificial intelligence models and build more datacentres to avoid becoming dangerously dependent on the US or China. Speaking in Vienna, she argued that if this dependence is left unchecked, trade partners could gain unprecedented leverage over Europe, potentially…
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Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
The US government is continuing its legal fight to detain and deport non-citizen researchers who track online safety risks, despite a federal judge ruling in July that the underlying policy was unconstitutional. US District Judge James Boasberg had blocked the policy after finding no evidence linking targeted researchers to any foreign power attempting to manipulate…
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Crypto billionaires’ donations expose flaws in Britain’s political funding rules
The Guardian’s editorial argues that huge crypto-linked donations to Reform UK expose the danger of Britain’s weak political funding rules and calls for the House of Lords to tighten the representation of the people bill. It criticises the government’s failure to cap donations and warns that unchecked wealth is letting rich individuals buy outsized political…
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Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has published a report aimed at helping US local authorities negotiate more effectively with developers proposing new datacentres, an area where officials often lack expertise and leverage. The guide comes amid a construction boom driven by the AI industry, which has left many councils facing complex negotiations over huge…
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AI is locked into a Cold War-style arms race between the US and China. For all the talk of a ‘slowdown’, there’s no grown ups to call out the madness – and Donald Trump’s not going to save us: SARAH VINE
Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine has warned that artificial intelligence development has become a Cold War-style arms race between the US and China, with neither country willing to slow down for fear of being left vulnerable. Speaking on the Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, Vine compared the competitive rush to build ever more powerful AI…