Less magic, more panic in Disney’s AI deal March 5, 2026 It was always going to happen, wasn’t it? The moment AI video tools became proficient enough to conjure something that looked vaguely like a princess, or a Jedi, Disney would ultimately have to choose: spend the next decade playing a game of Whac-A-Mole in court, or license its assets in-house. The House of Mouse, it [...]
Should we be worried that AI’s referees are leaving the pitch? March 5, 2026 Zoe Hitzig had one of the more unorthodox jobs Silicon Valley has to offer. She worked on the ethics and policy questions around artificial intelligence at OpenAI – the uncomfortable bits about how these systems are built, used, accessed and paid for. A couple of weeks ago, she quit. Taking the pen for the New [...]
OpenAI rewrites Pentagon AI deal following backlash March 3, 2026 OpenAI has amended its newly signed contract with the US Department of War after chief executive Sam Altman admitted the original announcement “looked opportunistic and sloppy”. The news triggered fears the company’s technology could be used for domestic mass surveillance. The San Francisco-based AI firm signed the agreement with the Pentagon on Friday, hours after [...]
The US just blacklisted an AI company. Is yours next? March 3, 2026 A government demonstrated in a single week that it can transform a technology company from the sole provider of classified AI services into a designated national security threat, not for what the company did, but for what it refused to allow, says Paul Armstrong Last week, the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic, a company whose AI [...]
OpenAI backs London with hub expansion and new roles February 26, 2026 OpenAI is to make London its largest research hub outside the United States, in what ministers have hailed as a “huge vote of confidence” in the UK’s AI sector. The ChatGPT developer confirmed it will significantly expand its London operation, which currently employs around 30 researchers, though it declined to put a figure on how [...]
Anthropic ditches AI safety policy to keep up with OpenAI February 25, 2026 Anthropic, the booming tech firm that built its reputation around responsibly developing AI systems, is now loosening its flagship AI safety policy. In an update to its ‘Responsible Scaling Policy 3.0’ published on Tuesday, the OpenAI rival said it would no longer actively stop the development of a model deemed potentially dangerous if a competitor [...]
‘I see people doing dumb things’: Jamie Dimon warns of crisis-style AI reckoning February 24, 2026 The world’s most influential banker has drawn parallels to the time before the global financial crisis amid inflated asset prices and peers doing “dumb things”. Jamie Dimon, the top boss of Wall Street behemoth JP Morgan, said: “Unfortunately we did see this in ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, almost the same thing. “The rising tide lifts all [...]
Money Supermarket integrates with ChatGPT in battle to fend off AI threat February 20, 2026 Money Supermarket has launched its own ChatGPT app as the comparison service seeks to quell investor fears over the threat to its business from AI. The new ChatGPT app allows users to access Money Supermarket services directly within the ChatGPT interface, creating a conversational way to search, compare and find deals, without leaving the chat [...]
Ex-Deepmind executive adds to wave of stark AI warnings February 19, 2026 A former senior executive at Google’s AI branch has warned that the global economy is heading towards a concerning divide between those who control AI and those displaced by it, arguing that governments are unprepared for the scale of change ahead. Dex Hunter-Torricke, who previously led communications at Google Deepmind and has worked for both [...]
Starmer closes chatbot loophole in Online Safety Act February 16, 2026 Sir Keir Starmer is set to target AI chatbots with the UK’s Online Safety Act, warning tech titans that “no platform gets a free pass” following a deepfake scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok. In a speech on Monday, the Prime Minister is expected to confirm plans to amend the Crime and Policing Bill, so that [...]