UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release
UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release

Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. I…

Britain steps up its defences against AI risks
Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine governm…

Jev-like decision models are flooding the AI market, after researcher claims TypeSafe copied their research

Jev and the flood of AI decision models — TypeSafe allegedly copied researcher’s architecture but got copied itself

DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports
DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $4…

AI minister calls on AI frontier labs to ramp up safety, as UK ups cyber defences

The UK AI minister today called on frontier AI labs to ramp up the safety of their leading AI systems, as the UK announced it was strengthening its cyber defences, including potential new legislation,…

Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s source code

Maurice Heumann’s Claude and Codex agents rebuilt Modern Warfare 2’s source; 83% of functions match the original byte for byte.

OpenAI Asked The Chip Industry To Build Faster. Then It Built Its Own Chip Team.

Richard Ho, who helped create Google’s first TPU chip, also built OpenAI’s semiconductor unit from scratch. Now he’s grappling with deploying the first chips, doomerism and “competing among friends” with Nvidia.

IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%
IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday that spending on AI infrastructure is helping the world economy grow by about 3% each year, even though energy prices are high. She made these comments in Bangkok at the start of the IMF and World Bank annu…

Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’
Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’

Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. “Ama…

TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years

TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore…