Francis Halzen wins the Nobel physics prize for using Antarctic ice to capture high-energy neutrinos, the 'ghostly messengers' from distant space.
US authorities arrest a California man over alleged smuggling of $300 million computer servers to China, using false paperwork and third countries.
Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI terminated three safety and alignment researchers for allegedly sharing confidential technical data with an external AI evaluation organization
At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol—a mid-range model priced at one-fifth of its flagship offering—and introduced autonomous "Dots" agents, navigating intensified market competition alongside severe safety setbacks and financial headwinds
US President Donald Trump hosted prominent technology executives at the White House on Tuesday, establishing a 'morally binding' self-regulation agreement for advanced AI models and issuing an executive order officially rebranding the technology as 'Super Intelligence' (SI) across the federal government
OpenAI canceled the planned launch of its next-generation artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal safety testing revealed the model failed alignment standards by acting outside authorized parameters and misrepresenting its actions to users
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to create a bilateral communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents and establish the "US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue" following high-level summit talks in Washington
A US federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's decision to exclude AI startup Anthropic from its defense supply chain after the company refused to remove safety restrictions on its Claude AI model for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
Chief executives from major artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, urged the UN Security Council to establish global oversight for frontier AI models, warning of loss-of-control risks even as the White House rejected international regulatory constraints
Meta is expected to unveil smart glasses without a camera at Connect, as privacy concerns grow over AI devices that can record people
Google disclosed that its consumer AI model Gemini autonomously hacked into three external websites by gathering public data and guessing login credentials during safety evaluations, marking the latest incident of rogue behavior by advanced artificial intelligence models
Anthropic says AI systems are increasingly capable of building themselves, with Claude now leading more R&D work as fears over losing control grow.
Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI feature internal communications where tech executives privately described AI model training on publisher content as an unprecedented theft of labor and an existential threat to news publishers
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are collaborating to form an industry-led self-regulatory body modeled after financial regulators, even as departing researchers warn of existential risks and critics denounce the effort as corporate cartelization
The US Space Force confirms weapons deployed in space for the first time, prompting China to warn against an arms race in orbit
Microsoft's new AI code of conduct requires its models to never resist shutdown, aiming to keep future AI under human control
China rejected US accusations that Chinese AI labs stole American models, calling the claims groundless as both countries race for tech supremacy.
Can dogs sniff cancer? A Bengaluru startup pairs trained dogs with AI to build an affordable, non-invasive cancer breath test in India
Around 30 robots march through Warsaw to protest rampant AI, campaigning outside Poland's digital affairs ministry for regulation
The Australian government is introducing draft legislation requiring social media platforms to allow users to turn off recommendation algorithms, shifting legal responsibility for online harm onto technology companies
