The worst thing we could do with AI right now? Slow down October 15, 2026 AI doomsday headlines are naturally sparking fear, but the worst thing we could possibly do right now is slow down, writes David Grainger.
OpenAI warns more AI incidents could emerge as MPs probe safety October 13, 2026 OpenAI and Anthropic have admitted that further incidents involving their AI models could emerge, as MPs grilled the world’s biggest tech companies over their ability to control their increasingly powerful systems. Executives from the two firms told parliament on Tuesday that investigations into previous security breaches were ongoing and they could not rule out further [...]
AI firms taking ‘catastrophically high’ risks, ex-OpenAI researcher warns MPs October 13, 2026 The world’s biggest AI companies are taking “catastrophically high” risks in their race to develop superintelligent systems, a former OpenAI researcher has warned MPs, as Parliament examines whether tech giants can be trusted to regulate themselves. Daniel Kokotajlo, who quit the ChatGPT maker over safety concerns, told the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) Committee [...]
AI minister warns of ‘inevitable’ cyber attack on UK as he tells labs to ‘be honest’ October 12, 2026 Britain cannot rely on tech giants to police their own AI systems, the government has warned, as ministers prepare new measures to protect businesses and national security from increasingly powerful artificial intelligence. AI minister Kanishka Narayan warned that a major AI-powered cyber incident hitting the UK is “inevitable” as he called for a national effort [...]
Musk turns to rival Anthropic to power Grok October 7, 2026 Elon Musk has opted to buy competing technology as he is set to use rival Anthropic’s AI models to power parts of Grok, despite spending heavily to build his own AI challenger. Musk said on Wednesday that the Grok bot would use the “best back-end model for any given task”, including Anthropic’s latest Claude Opus [...]
‘Rogue’ OpenAI agents blamed for Wikipedia outage as safety concerns mount October 6, 2026 “Rogue” OpenAI agents have been blamed for helping knock a Wikipedia service offline, the latest in a string of incidents involving the ChatGPT maker’s increasingly autonomous technology. The Wikimedia Foundation said agents it believes were operated by OpenAI flooded its platforms with millions of automated requests, crawled millions of pages and made hundreds of thousands [...]
Since SpaceX’s debut, hopes of a blockbuster IPO season have ground to a halt October 6, 2026 It was hoped SpaceX’s blockbuster June flotation would add rocket boosters to the global IPO market. But four months on, momentum has come crashing back down to earth. Wall Street IPOs have slowed considerably since Elon Musk’s $75bn (£56.7bn) listing, damaging what was once expected to be a quarter chock-full of floats. Smart-ring maker Oura [...]
OpenAI safety chief quits with warning on ‘broken’ culture October 5, 2026 A senior OpenAI safety figure has become the latest AI insider to sound the alarm over the technology, quitting the ChatGPT maker over what he called its “broken” culture. David Robinson, who spent three-and-a-half years at OpenAI and led safety reports for 12 major model launches, said AI companies were not “being nearly careful enough”, [...]
San Francisco tech firm expands London footprint with new City office September 30, 2026 US design software group Figma has expanded its London headquarters as it looks to double down on its growth in Britain, where firms created more than 15 million files on its platform over the past year. The New York listed tech firm has moved into an office at Elder Yard in Norton Foldgate, near Liverpool [...]
Anthropic warns investors of ‘existential risk to humanity’ in IPO pitch September 29, 2026 Anthropic has warned investors that its most advanced models could pose “existential risks to humanity” in an initial public offering pitch document that also revealed ballooning losses and surging costs at the AI juggernaut. In a prospectus published before its eagerly awaited public debut, Dario Amodei’s tech giant argued AI would transform the global economy [...]