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    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.

    • Burnham calls for global AI regulation in first UN address

      Andy Burnham used his first UN General Assembly speech to call for international cooperation on artificial intelligence, arguing that governments must regulate its development. He said AI could bring major benefits, including economic growth and medical advances, but warned that unchecked progress could disrupt work and increase risks. His position contrasts with Donald Trump’s opposition…

    • Shut up and calculate: Jev’s new AI primitives for coders

      TypeSafe launched Jev, a new AI model that fundamentally differs from standard large language models by returning predefined “typed” decisions rather than free-form text responses. The service functions as a structured classifier that accepts inputs and provides defined outputs using a “System One” decision model, and has rapidly attracted developer interest since its recent release.…

    • Netflix Competition ‘Wonka’s The Golden Ticket’ Is a Ghoulish Misuse of AI Gene Wilder: TV Review

      Netflix’s “Wonka’s Golden Ticket” is a competition series loosely inspired by Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, placing contestants in elaborate chocolate-themed challenges. The review argues that adapting a story widely understood as a warning about cruelty and competitive excess into entertainment creates a fundamental mismatch, intensified by the use of an AI-generated voice…

    • “We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle”: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI

      Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited San Francisco on a trade mission to promote Greece as a destination for technology investment and talent, candidly admitting to roughly 250 founders and investors that he lacks answers to many of the AI policy questions world leaders are privately debating. His trip combined fact-finding visits to companies like…

    • Trump urges governments to replace artificial intelligence with superintelligence

      President Trump has announced that the term “artificial intelligence” should be replaced with “superintelligence” across US government documents and ideally internationally, arguing that the word “artificial” makes intelligence sound fake. He has proposed using “superintelligence” or the acronym “SI” instead, marking a significant shift in how this foundational technology may be referred to officially. Trump…

    • Burnham urges global AI rules as Trump rejects international controls

      UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for the UK to lead efforts to establish global rules for frontier artificial intelligence, proposing a single set of principles and standards covering safety, transparency and access. Speaking at the United Nations, he said elected governments should guide decisions about AI, citing its potential benefits alongside risks to…

    • Burnham calls for global AI rules to protect humanity

      Andy Burnham urged world leaders to co-operate on global rules for artificial intelligence, warning that its rapid development could threaten humanity if left largely to private companies. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, he said elected governments needed to guide the technology, while ensuring it improved economies, supported workers and helped address challenges such as…

    • OpenAI helps form independent panel to advise on mathematical research

      OpenAI has helped establish an independent nine-member panel of prominent mathematicians to advise it and other AI companies on mathematical research. The move follows a series of impressive AI-generated mathematical results that created reputational problems, prompting concerns about attribution, academic standards, communication and how research findings are released. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial…

    • Anthropic and OpenAI unveil models despite warnings over AI race

      Despite calls from AI employees and Anthropic’s own CEO Dario Amodei for frontier AI labs to slow development, Anthropic and OpenAI both released new models on the same day, contradicting stated concerns about the pace of advancement. Amodei had reiterated the message from the July “Pacing the Frontier” open letter on 12 September, but Anthropic…

    • Sydney Swans stars return to face teammates for first time since Pullman Hotel scandal

      Five Sydney Swans players—Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, Nick Blakey, James Jordon and Riley Bice—are returning to the club to face their teammates for the first time since being suspended for breaching club standards following a post-match party at the Pullman Hotel in East Melbourne. The returns matter because the players have been absent from the…