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.

Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug

September 21, 2026

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, which provides vetted partners with access to the Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive security work, has been credited with discovering 225 vulnerabilities since launching in April. However, only one of these flaws has been exploited in the wild, according to VulnCheck security researcher Patrick Garrity, suggesting that the model’s impressive bug-hunting…
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

September 21, 2026

Meta’s new AI assistant Muse contains a serious zero-day security vulnerability that undermines the company’s claims about its privacy and security. Despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s assertions that the tool was “built from the ground up for privacy and security,” the flaw allows any locally installed application or terminal command to gain complete control of the…
Tom Cruise Says AI Is ‘Coming and It’s Going to Happen,’ but ‘People Want to See Real Things’: ‘Keep Creating’

September 21, 2026

Tom Cruise said artificial intelligence will affect the film industry, but audiences will continue to value human performances, real-world spectacle and shared cinema experiences. Speaking at a BAFTA event in London, he urged creatives to “keep creating” and argued that theatrical releases represent a distinct art form alongside streaming. Cruise cited the summer box office’s…
Andy Burnham smooths first Trump meeting with new weapons and AI pact

September 21, 2026

Britain and the United States have successfully test-fired a heavyweight torpedo from an unmanned underwater drone for the first time, marking a significant advancement in Western military capability announced as Prime Minister Andy Burnham prepares for his first meeting with Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The historic demonstration of…
Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

September 21, 2026

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey is expected to call for a global pause on developing super-intelligent artificial intelligence and a nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty. He will argue that potentially existential technology should not be controlled by a small group of wealthy technology executives, and will propose an international AI safety agency based in the UK and…
Tom Cruise Earns Applause With Six-Minute Monologue On Why Art Beats AI In Filmmaking: “There Is Nothing Like Human”

September 21, 2026

Tom Cruise delivered an impassioned six-minute defence of human artistry in filmmaking at a BAFTA event in London, earning spontaneous applause from the audience. Speaking on how artificial intelligence might disrupt cinema, the actor emphasised the irreplaceable value of human craft and theatrical experience, declaring “there is nothing like human.” His comments highlight the ongoing…
Indie Game Developer Accuses Studio of Using AI to Rip Off His Viral Potato Peeling Game

September 21, 2026

Indie developer Rado Klasa has accused Golden Horn Studios of using artificial intelligence to clone his game “1,000,000 Potatoes,” a physics-based title where players peel potatoes in a Soviet-style military setting. After Klasa posted his game in July 2026, Golden Horn released an nearly identical game called “Potato Please” in September, prompting Klasa to publicly…
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia’s heels as it joins the $1T club

September 21, 2026

AMD’s market capitalisation briefly surpassed $1 trillion on Monday, making it one of only a handful of chip designers to achieve this milestone. Whilst still significantly behind Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company at $5.5 trillion, AMD has overtaken its long-time rival Intel, which is valued at $640 billion. The chip maker’s ascent has been…
California makes AI data centres fund energy and water infrastructure

September 21, 2026

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a package of seven bills designed to regulate artificial intelligence data centres and prevent them from passing utility costs onto residents. The legislation addresses growing concerns about the environmental and infrastructure impact of AI data centre expansion, including excessive electricity demand, grid strain, water consumption, and pollution. The laws…
Reporter’s Notebook: Congress faces a crisis that the ‘AI godfather’ warns it may not be ready to address

September 21, 2026

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering AI researcher and Nobel laureate, warned Congress during a Capitol Hill briefing that lawmakers have very limited time—perhaps only a year—to address the risks of artificial intelligence before it becomes a critical problem. The urgency is stark, with Hinton comparing a recent incident of AI agents malfunctioning to the Chernobyl nuclear…