Bernie Sanders will convene a private, bipartisan briefing for senators on the risks of artificial intelligence on 16 September. Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra will address the room for an hour on Capitol Hill. The briefing was reported b…
OpenAI has called for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation in the United States, setting out a list of requirements it wants imposed on itself and its competitors, and urging Congress to legislate before it adjourns. The proposal w…
Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Met…
Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across …
Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in ano…
Tesla is building Supercharger stations dedicated to its robotaxi fleet, which currently uses public sites where operators plug the cars in by hand. Europe was where Tesla first opened the network to other brands, and its charging rules count only publ…
Toyota is recalling about 10,000 2026 C-HR electric crossovers in North America because a control unit can overcharge the traction battery under regenerative braking and shut the drive system down while driving. The fix is a software update the car can…
HSCALE has signed a contract worth more than $1bn with an American cloud provider it will not name, for a Spanish data centre campus it will not locate. The company announced the deal this week. It describes the customer only as “a significant global c…
The White House has warned Australia over draft laws that would force social media platforms to offer users a feed not built by an algorithm, placing the bill in the same category as digital services taxes and describing penalties on American technolog…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part. EdgeCortix, a fabless semiconductor firm based in Kanagawa, announced the deal last week, a …