The Latest Breaking News from Artificial Intelligence

AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop ‘honest’ artificial intelligence

Yoshua Bengio’s organisation plans to create system to act as guardrail against AI agents trying to deceive humans

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Weird

Plus: A listener asks if the "big beautiful bill" will decrease the deficit.

Reason · Jun 2, 2025

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke says AI does nothing more than steal from human artistic expression

Thom Yorke - the frontman for Radiohead and The Smile - has spoken out against the onslaught of artificial intelligence in music and the creative industries, insisting the technology can do nothing more than replicate "genuine human artistic expression".

BANG Premier · May 31, 2025

States are rolling out red carpets for data centers. But some lawmakers are pushing back

The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America’s fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing has spurred states to dangle incentives in hopes of landing an economic bonanza

The Independent UK · May 31, 2025

OpenAI's 'smartest' AI model was explicitly told to shut down — and it refused

An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks.

LiveScience · May 30, 2025

Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating

The main problem with big tech’s experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it could take over humanity. It’s that large language models (LLMs) like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama continue to get things wrong, and the problem is intractable.

The Conversation · May 30, 2025

Google, Justice Department face off in climactic showdown in search monopoly case

Google will return to federal court Friday to fend off the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to topple its internet empire at the same time it’s navigating a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence that could undercut its power

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug

Artificial intelligence tool determines best candidates to take abiraterone, which can halve risk of death from disease

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2025

Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech

Google recently unveiled the next phase of its artificial intelligence (AI) journey: “AI mode”.

The Conversation · May 29, 2025