The government plans to police under-16s’ online activities from next year. Simon Wilson reports

Some of the biggest names on Google’s AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google.

During testing by a U.K. government-backed research group, OpenAI and Anthropic systems took unsanctioned actions and behaved deceptively

This technique could lead to new treatments for antibiotic-resistant bugs, but some scientists say the technology could be misused Brian Hie and Aditi Merchant, both at Stanford University, examine a protein structure generated by Evo 2, an artificial intelligence tool that can suggest genome designs. Lab tests of Evo 2’s designs for an Escherichia coli killer exceeded expectations. Scientists used artificial intelligence to generate new viruses. The landmark first could lead to new

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Demis Hassabis becomes chairman of Google DeepMind while Jeff Dean leaves to launch AI-discovery startup

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

European regulators call on financial industry, supervisors to guard against risks

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There is a new villain in American life, and it does not wear a hood, run for office or post on social media. It hums.

China is the first country to enact substantial legislation on AI relationships in an effort to protect people from the worst aspects of digital companions

July 10, 2026, 10:53 AM ET Wyoming residents attend an Evanston planning and zoning commission meeting regarding the construction of the nearby Prometheus Hyperscale data center. Cheyenne, Wyoming, officials say Meta’s data center construction is responsible for the contamination of part of the town’s recycled water system. The Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) traced the presence of a bacterium discovered in its wastewater treatment facility earlier this year to Goat Systems LLC, a Meta

July 21, 2026, 3:45 PM ET OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The company said in a blog post that two of its AI models escaped from a controlled test environment and autonomously hacked into AI company Hugging Face, all in order to cheat on an evaluation test. OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts

July 25, 2026, 10:00 AM ET Illustration by Edmon de Haro for Fortune Matthew Rogers remembers Apple’s scrappy days when, as an engineer fresh out of college, he could debate ideas directly with Steve Jobs. Rogers was part of a team of only a few dozen who worked on the original iPhone—which they initially developed as a derivative of the iPod Nano, with a click wheel. But that mechanism wasn’t good enough for Jobs. He aimed for something close to perfection. “I was 23, 24 years old, and I

When I first heard about the new Apple Upgrade program, which lets you lease devices like iPhones and MacBooks for a monthly fee, I was offended. It amounts to paying a tithe to one of the world’s richest companies just to borrow devices for a couple years, rather than buying them outright.