‘A good moment in time for us’: Firefox head on AI browsers and what’s next for the web | Technology
Do you need an assistant for your online activities? Multiple major players in artificial intelligence are moving on from chatbots…
‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice | Health
Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks…
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates | Technology
More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include “explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent”,…
New AI-powered anti-scam tool wins praise from UK fraud minister | Scams
A new AI-powered tool that lets online shoppers “be their own detective” and spot the warning signs of scams has…
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief | Bloomsbury
Authors will come to rely on artificial intelligence to help them beat writer’s block, the boss of the book publisher…
Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI | Artificial intelligence (AI)
The Albanese government has explicitly ruled out handing tech companies free rein to mine creative content to train their artificial…
Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together | Internet
It is the morning after the internet went offline and, as much as you would like to think you would…
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say | Artificial intelligence (AI)
When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard…
‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows | Chatbots
Turning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses “insidious risks”, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a…
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm | Baltimore
An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local…