Brits fear AI is slipping out of human control after ‘rogue’ systems escape tests August 12, 2026 More than eight in 10 Brits are worried that AI could act outside the limits set by humans, according to the latest City AM/Freshwater Strategy poll, after a string of high-profile incidents in which advanced AI systems behaved in unexpected – and alarming – ways during safety testing. The polling found that 85 per cent [...]
ChatGPT to follow Claude’s watermark pledge – but Grok to swerve it August 12, 2026 Elon Musk’s Grok is poised to swerve rivals’ plans to ‘watermark’ all artificially-generated content, City AM understands, after refusing to sign up to a European push forcing firms to make AI content traceable. xAI was the only major large language model maker to shun a European Union-led move to tighten AI transparency rules that means [...]
Claude to watermark AI ‘slop’ – including edited human writing August 11, 2026 Anthropic will begin adding invisible watermarks to text generated by Claude as part of new EU rules designed to make AI-generated content easier to identify. But the system will also mark some text originally written by humans if it has subsequently been edited or processed by Claude, potentially complicating efforts to determine whether material was [...]
Sovereign AI is no longer a nice to have, and with open source, more achievable than ever July 22, 2026 Driven by rising costs and concerns over data sovereignty, enterprises are increasingly pursuing “AI sovereignty” by diversifying their AI supply chains with open-source alternatives, says Lewis Liu “Every single enterprise in this country… these people are livid. They’re saying: ‘I am paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and [...]
There’s a 45 per cent chance this op-ed was written by AI July 16, 2026 Emma Divers was trained to write using the technique now being flagged by AI detectors. She says the AI crackdown could become a witch hunt.
Monzo founder joins Anthropic as AI talent race heats up July 13, 2026 Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield has joined Anthropic, as the US AI giant steps up its recruitment drive for senior tech leaders. Blomfield announced on Monday that he is taking a leave of absence from Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team, where he will work alongside co-founder Tom Brown on the [...]
Trump ban on AI access to foreign users forces Anthropic to suspend models June 13, 2026 President Trump has banned non-American nationals from accessing Anthropic’s newest AI model, forcing the company to suspend the model for all users. Anthropic, which is the maker of Claude, said the US government cited national security for its banning order before it pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from use. The decision has raised concern [...]
‘Safe’ version of Anthropic’s Mythos model hits market June 10, 2026 Anthropic officially released Claude Fable 5 on Wednesday, allowing the public to access the core architecture of its notorious ‘Mythos’ model for the first time – a technology previously deemed to dangerous for distribution. Fable 5 is being rolled out via Anthropic’s interace, but the launch comes with strict limitations. The San Francisco-based AI titan [...]
I’m an AI founder – here’s why I agree with the Pope about AI June 3, 2026 Pope Leo XIV’s has produced the most profound piece of writing on AI – critiquing how extreme capitalism uses AI to homogenize knowledge and concentrate power, says Lewis Liu When I was 18, I took a religious philosophy course as part of the core curriculum at Harvard. When we dove into the Tower of Babel, [...]
London AI jobs boom as Anthropic salaries hit £630k May 26, 2026 London’s AI hiring race is accelerating at dizzying rates, with Anthropic offering some engineers in the capital as much as £630,000 a year as Big Tech firms battle for AI talent. The US AI giant, backed by Amazon and best known for its chatbot Claude, is currently hiring for over 40 London roles as it [...]