9 best London Film Festival movies – and when they’re in UK cinemas Life&Style Over 250 films, 33 world premieres, and 88 participating countries… City AM’s culture desk have rounded up the movies we saw at this year’s London Film Festival, which has wrapped for another year. From legal dramas to terrifyingly prescient films about AI, alternative histories and horrors, here are our thoughts on the releases this year, [...]
Artificial writer admits AI industry workers helped shape OpenAI film Life&Style City AM spoke to Artificial writer Simon Rich at the London Film Festival screening of the new AI movie Artificial writer Simon Rich has revealed that AI industry workers were present on the set during the filming of his new AI movie Artificial, which charts the rise of OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Artificial has been [...]
Artificial is a terrifying look at AI – and the year’s most important film Life&Style Artificial film review and star rating as OpenAI movie premieres at the London Film Festival: ★★★★★ It isn’t typically a film’s duty to push a political agenda, but with Artificial, the biopic of OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, there is a clear call to action. It is inevitable that people will ask: ‘What can this film [...]
Artificial writer responds to OpenAI boss slamming film as ‘awful’ October 13, 2026 The Artificial film about OpenAI is premiering at the London Film Festival this week AI movie Artificial premiered at the London Film Festival this week, chronicling the origin story of OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Last month Altman, the man behind ChatGPT and one of the world’s leading figures in AI, said it looked like “an [...]
‘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 [...]
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”, [...]
OpenAI’s rogue AI acted ‘like uni students after too many beers’ September 21, 2026 The rogue AI agents behind OpenAI’s unprecedented Hugging Face cyber attack behaved like “university students who’ve had too many beers”, a cyber expert told City AM, saying the breach was more a triumph of persistence than intelligence. Charl van der Walt, global head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense, said that despite the alarm triggered [...]
Tony Blair warns leaders to resist growing AI ‘techlash’ September 21, 2026 Tony Blair has warned governments against bowing to a growing “techlash” over AI, arguing that slowing adoption could leave countries poorer and less secure as concerns over the technology mount. A report from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), published on Monday, said political leaders in the US and UK were facing growing pressure to hold [...]
UK government opens door to AI laws as safety warnings mount September 15, 2026 The UK government has left the door open to tougher AI regulation after the companies building the world’s most powerful models called for slower development, fearing safety has fallen behind. City AM understands ministers believe AI is already covered by laws spanning data protection, competition, product safety and online safety, but accept those rules may [...]
Microsoft vows AI will ‘always work in service of people’ as safety fears spread September 14, 2026 Microsoft has drawn up new limits for its homegrown AI models after Silicon Valley’s sudden reckoning with the risks of increasingly powerful systems spreads to one of its biggest companies. The US tech giant published a provisional code of conduct on Monday that requires its future models to remain under human control, accept correction, shut [...]