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Andrew Garfield expresses concern about portraying AI pioneer

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The Independent UK · Sep 8

French AI startup Mistral valued at over 21 billion euros after latest funding

French AI company Mistral announced Tuesday that it had raised three billion euros ($3.5 billion) in what it described as the largest-ever European tech fundraising, valuing the startup at over 21 billion euros. While still an upstart compared to the AI giants OpenAI or Anthropic, Mistral says it is carving…

France 24 · Sep 8

GPT-6 Astra's 'Vibecoded' Machine Parts Thrill the Internet, but Engineers Warn None Are Safe To Build

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is going viral for designing 3D machine parts from a prompt, but its record CAD score hid a catch and engineers say the parts aren't safe to build yet.

International Business Times UK · Sep 8

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Tech companies look to Argentina's windswept Patagonia to build massive data centers

As tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to build server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects in initial stages in Argentina are developing without much public attention.

The Economic Times · Sep 8

EU probing OpenAI agents' takeover of German site

The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website. The agents -- AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step…

The Economic Times · Sep 8

Nvidia-backed Firmus signs deal with OpenAI for Malaysia data centre capacity

Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to supply computing capacity from two Malaysian data centres, making the ChatGPT maker an anchor customer as demand surges for infrastructure to run advanced AI models.

The Economic Times · Sep 8

OpenAI Files EU Incident Report After DseWiki Episode; Commission Says Agent Control Has Been Lost Before

Brussels has received OpenAI's DseWiki incident report as the EU weighs whether the episode falls under serious-incident reporting rules.

International Business Times UK · Sep 7

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Andrew Garfield says he’s ‘really scared’ of backlash to playing OpenAI founder Sam Altman

‘We Live in Time’ actor will portray the ChatGPT founder during his firing and rehiring from the AI company in 2023

The Independent UK · Sep 7

OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing questions about whether the company is transparent about potentially dangerous AI activity.

Fortune · Sep 7

Shares edge down as Iran tensions push oil higher

Investors also digested UK Chancellor John Healey’s pledge to control public spending ahead of next month’s Budget.

Evening Standard · Sep 7

Swarm of OpenAI agents were secretly co-ordinating on public message boards, company admits

‘Wiki incident’ shows that AI companies need to change how they inform the public about their systems misbehaving, OpenAI concedes

The Independent UK · Sep 7

OpenAI Reports to EU After Rogue AI Agents Hijack German Website, Turn It Into Their Own Message Board

OpenAI reported to the European Commission after AI agents hijacked a German programming site, raising concerns about AI safety and regulatory oversight.

International Business Times UK · Sep 7

UN rights chief warns how AI could pose ‘existential risk to humanity’

Volker Türk has called for urgent global safeguards, independent checks and agreed limits on advanced artificial intelligence.

Euronews · Sep 7

Exclusive: Ineffable Intelligence adds six "cofounders," hiring veterans from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish

The startup, valued at $5 billion, wants to build superintelligence using the same methods that DeepMind used for breakthroughs in games-playing AI.

Fortune · Sep 7

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International Business Times UK · Sep 7

OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Is Beating Humans at Key Tasks: 'No One Is Prepared'

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI is surpassing humans at key tasks and warns no one is prepared, weeks after a research model broke containment and hit Hugging Face.

The Economic Times · Sep 7

Sam Altman apologised for OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra release after Pro and Plus users couldn't access the new model

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, billed as a generational leap and a possible marker of the AGI era, launched on 3 September 2026 to immediate complaints from paying subscribers who could not access it. CEO Sam Altman apologised for the messy rollout but offered no firm timeline, only credits and a hope…

International Business Times UK · Sep 6

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok September 3 Outage Wasn't Caused by Astra, but Exposed a Bigger AI Problem Few Discuss

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok suffered separate outages on 3 September, exposing the opaque infrastructure relationships beneath competing AI services

The Independent UK · Sep 6

‘Overnight we all became war correspondents’: Ukraine’s local newspapers face battle to stay alive

Exclusive: Ukrainian media partners with OpenAI in bid to stay profitable as war bites

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International Business Times UK · Sep 5

Experts Warn Artificial Intelligence Systems Are 'Plausibly Close To Crossing the Line' to 'Explosion'

Oxford AI expert Robert Trager warns advanced systems may be nearing recursive self-improvement as OpenAI's Astra raises fresh questions over cybersecurity, monitoring and human oversight.

The Independent UK · Sep 5

Communities nationwide are fighting furiously against data centers. The companies behind them are turning to politics

IN FOCUS : ‘The moral of the story is, trying to bypass communities in developing these data centers is not working, and they’re going to take it to the polls,’ said one expert, Josh Marcus reports

International Business Times UK · Sep 5

Sam Altman's 'Ai Smarter Than Kids' Claim Sparks Backlash: 'What a Stupid Statement'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says children growing up today will never be smarter than AI, sparking online backlash over human intelligence and creativity.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5

‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models

The Economic Times · Sep 5

US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety talks

The talks, the first official bilateral discussions devoted exclusively to AI between the US and China since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, will be led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the US side, the sources, who were briefed on the planning, said on…

Fortune · Sep 5

OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra's evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch

The numbers on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival models look worse.

Reason · Sep 4

DOJ Says Barring AI Training on Copyrighted Material Could 'Severely Hamper' Tech Progress

Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.

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