AI

AI is reshaping how businesses, governments and creative industries operate, and this hub tracks the debates, breakthroughs and mishaps that come with that shift. It covers the technology's expanding footprint, from data centre investment and enterprise infrastructure spending to proposals for automating public sector roles, alongside the cultural pushback over AI's place in art and creative work.

It also follows the growing scrutiny of AI safety and accountability, including research into how models behave when given autonomy, scrutiny of their security vulnerabilities, and disagreement among experts and policymakers over how tightly the technology should be regulated. Legal and ethical stumbles, such as fabricated evidence in court filings or missteps in how AI systems interact with the public, feature regularly too.

Taken together, the coverage reflects a technology moving faster than the institutions meant to oversee it, making it essential reading for anyone trying to understand what AI means for their job, their rights and the wider world around them.

Google Debuts Gemini 4 Argon AI Model With Restricted Access to Trusted Cybersecurity Experts

September 30, 2026

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its latest frontier AI model, which the company claims offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity. However, the model is not yet available to the general public—access is restricted to a small group of trusted partners in Google’s Fairwind Program as part of a phased release focused…
Travellers restrain pilot after cockpit attack as plane plunges 17,000ft

September 30, 2026

Passengers on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight restrained a pilot after he stabbed his colleague and appeared to try to damage the cockpit instruments. Their intervention came as the plane plunged 17,000ft in less than two minutes, helping prevent further danger and allowing another pilot to take control. Passenger Yaniv Hayun said he and others pulled…
The AI telling farmers when to harvest

September 30, 2026

Artificial intelligence tools are being deployed by fruit growers to forecast optimal harvest dates by analysing crop imagery and accounting for weather conditions, ripeness, and worker availability. Companies such as Vivid Machines and FruitCast are developing systems that help farmers like Joel Carter at Okanagan Specialty Fruits determine when to harvest, which is critical because…
Passengers overpower knife-wielding pilot; Chinese AI safety fears; Reform voters back EU

September 30, 2026

Passengers overpower a knife-wielding pilot in mid-air drama whilst Chinese AI tools are exposed with critical safety flaws. Reform voters show surprising appetite for closer EU ties, contradicting their party’s Eurosceptic stance.
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else

September 30, 2026

OpenAI says it disrupted a month-long campaign to extract reasoning from its models, with the core activity linked to people associated with China’s Moonshot AI, developer of Kimi. It argues that large-scale distillation could let competitors reproduce advanced capabilities while bypassing the safety safeguards of the original models. The campaign began on 1 July and…
Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

September 30, 2026

Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model it says performs strongly on complex software engineering, business and cybersecurity tasks. Access is initially limited to a group of “trusted cyber defenders” while Google strengthens safeguards, making the announcement notable for its cautious, staged release. Google says Argon is already being used internally, including…
Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition

September 30, 2026

Factory CEO Matan Grinberg accused investor and board adviser Chris Degnan of sharing confidential information with Cognition, which Grinberg considers Factory’s biggest competitor. The dispute became public after Degnan announced he was joining Cognition as chief revenue officer, prompting questions about whether Factory’s sensitive plans may have been exposed. The two give conflicting accounts of…
Huawei claims Ascend chips have overtaken Nvidia in China’s market share

September 30, 2026

Huawei’s rotating chairman Eric Xu has claimed that the company’s Ascend neural processing units have surpassed Nvidia in market share within China, capitalising on US export controls that have restricted American chip sales to the region. The Trump administration’s initial blockade of Nvidia and AMD accelerators, though later partially relaxed, prompted the Chinese government to…
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet

September 30, 2026

Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model it says leads in coding, knowledge work and cybersecurity, but access is currently limited to selected testers. The phased launch reflects Google’s focus on testing the model’s cyberdefence capabilities and safeguards before wider release. Google says Argon helped save 300 TiB of data-centre memory and…
Reddit limits Old Reddit browsing to recently active users

September 30, 2026

Reddit is tightening access to its Old Reddit interface to limit scraping and automated abuse. In the next few months, users will need to be logged in and to have used Old Reddit within the previous six months to keep browsing with the classic experience; Reddit says the existing login requirement reduced scraping but still…