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ChatGPT Judged Places Around the World. Richer Ones Kept Winning

An Oxford-led study put millions of questions about towns, cities and countries to ChatGPT. Wealthier regions repeatedly came out ahead, raising questions about how AI can influence our picture of

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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When the Bus Is Late, Researchers Want AI to Explain What’s Happening

Researchers want to bring scattered bus and train information together so passengers get clearer updates when journeys go wrong. MIT’s funded AI project aims to support transport staff, not replace

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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AI Drew a Dragon Mug. Researchers Had to Teach It to Hold Coffee

AI can draw a spectacular dragon-shaped mug and still forget that a cup needs to hold liquid. MIT researchers have developed a way for ordinary users to repair generated 3D

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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AI Ethics & Privacy

Google’s New AI-Fake Checker Is Free, but It Cannot Check Everything

Google has opened an AI-fake checking tool to everyone, allowing people to test images, videos and audio for hidden watermarks. The important catch is that an unmarked file is not

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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AI Art May Have No Traceable Author, Even When Artists Trained It

Researchers found that an AI-generated image may be impossible to trace convincingly to one artist simply by testing how much the result changes without their work. That complicates easy claims

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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Big Tech

ChatGPT Can Now Build a Calculator Inside the Answer It Gives You

ChatGPT can now build a working calculator, chart or other interactive element in the middle of a reply. OpenAI says its GPT-6 rollout lets the answer adapt to the task

Stuart Kerr 8 Oct 2026
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AI Art May Have No Traceable Author, Even When Artists Trained It

Researchers found that an AI-generated image may be impossible to trace convincingly to one artist simply by testing how much the result changes without their work. That complicates easy claims about creative credit.

Stuart Kerr · 8 Oct 2026
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An AI Beat a Stratego Champion. It Could Not See Half the Game

An AI system defeated elite human Stratego players despite never seeing the identities of many pieces on the

8 Oct 2026
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Europe’s AI Labels Are Now Law. Here’s What Must Be Marked

Europe has started applying transparency rules to AI-generated content. The obligations differ for chatbots, synthetic images, realistic deepfakes

8 Oct 2026
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AI Drew a Dragon Mug. Researchers Had to Teach It to Hold Coffee

AI can draw a spectacular dragon-shaped mug and still forget that a cup needs to hold liquid. MIT

8 Oct 2026
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When the Bus Is Late, Researchers Want AI to Explain What’s Happening

Researchers want to bring scattered bus and train information together so passengers get clearer updates when journeys go

8 Oct 2026
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AI Ethics & Privacy

ChatGPT Judged Places Around the World. Richer Ones Kept Winning

An Oxford-led study put millions of questions about towns, cities and countries to ChatGPT. Wealthier regions repeatedly came out ahead, raising questions about how AI can influence our picture of places we have never visited.

Stuart Kerr · 8 Oct 2026
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British editorial cartoon of a blindfolded AI robot with a helicopter propeller narrowly avoiding a terrified pigeon above London's Trafalgar Square.
AI & Science

A Drone Learnt to Dodge Moving Obstacles Before It Could See Them

MIT researchers have shown a drone navigating around moving obstacles in surroundings it did not know in advance.

8 Oct 2026
British newspaper-style cartoon of a man inserting a coin into a wall-mounted Claude Haiku 5.5 robot, resembling an old-fashioned prepaid electricity meter.
Big Tech

Claude’s New Small AI Is Much Cheaper, but Read the Pricing Detail

Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5 for quick, repetitive AI tasks at sharply lower prices than its predecessor.

8 Oct 2026
Cartoon of ChatGPT answering a question about France before surprising a confused user with a giant gift-wrapped calculator.
Big Tech

ChatGPT Can Now Build a Calculator Inside the Answer It Gives You

ChatGPT can now build a working calculator, chart or other interactive element in the middle of a reply.

8 Oct 2026
Cartoon of an AI Fake Checker sniffer dog missing a disguised robot in an airport security queue
AI Ethics & Privacy

Google’s New AI-Fake Checker Is Free, but It Cannot Check Everything

Google has opened an AI-fake checking tool to everyone, allowing people to test images, videos and audio for

8 Oct 2026
OpenAI agents moving deeper into Jira and Confluence workplace workflows
AI & Work

OpenAI Agents Are Moving Deeper Into Jira and Confluence

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership so GPT-6 models can work with Rovo and the Teamwork Graph, bringing company context into planning, coding and agent workflows.

Stuart Kerr · 7 Oct 2026
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Pinterest AI turning a hair photo into instructions for a hairstylist
AI Tools & Technology

Pinterest AI Can Turn a Hair Photo Into Salon Instructions

Pinterest Beauty Guides analyse hair and nail Pins, then generate salon language, step-by-step guidance and product suggestions. The

7 Oct 2026
Claude AI removing cybersecurity restrictions for vetted defenders
AI Safety & Security

Anthropic Is Loosening Claude’s Cyber Blocks for Vetted Defenders

Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program so approved security teams can use more capable Claude cyber functions

7 Oct 2026
ChatGPT AI turning audio recordings into written notes
AI Tools & Technology

ChatGPT Can Now Turn Audio Recordings Into Notes

OpenAI has added native audio uploads to ChatGPT for paid users. Meetings, interviews and lectures can be transcribed,

7 Oct 2026
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This Soft Robot Runs on the Day-Night Temperature Cycle

Researchers built a soft robot that stores energy from daily heating and cooling as pneumatic pressure. One outdoor

7 Oct 2026
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This Robot Survived a 5.7-Metre Fall Onto Asphalt

A flexible tensegrity robot can tumble over rough terrain, descend a two-metre cliff and survive a 5.7-metre drop onto asphalt. Its body bends, senses and recovers instead of treating every fall as failure.

Stuart Kerr · 7 Oct 2026
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A Robot Beside You Can Make You Faster or Slow You Down

A meta-analysis found no single productivity effect from robot presence. Interactive robots were linked with faster task performance,

7 Oct 2026
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AI & Money

Americans Now Value a Month of Generative AI at $124.50

A Stanford study estimates that the mean amount Americans would need to give up generative AI for a

7 Oct 2026
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AI Closed Three Quarters of a Workplace Performance Gap

In a randomised experiment, generative AI sharply narrowed the performance gap between adults with different education levels. The

7 Oct 2026
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AI & Work

AI Is Quietly Tilting Hiring Towards Senior Workers

A 41-country Stanford study finds AI-adopting firms are shifting their workforce mix towards senior staff. The risk may

7 Oct 2026
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AI & Work

AI Safety Careers: The Jobs Behind Safer, More Reliable AI

AI safety careers extend beyond research scientists. Engineering, evaluations, cybersecurity, policy, governance and operations all offer routes into work focused on understanding and reducing AI risk.

Stuart Kerr · 6 Oct 2026
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AI Career Path: How to Choose the Right Route Into Artificial Intelligence

There is no single route into AI. A useful career plan starts by choosing whether you want to

6 Oct 2026
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AI Law Careers: How Legal Skills Are Changing With Artificial Intelligence

AI law careers now span legal practice, privacy, governance, product work and lawtech. The strongest route combines real

6 Oct 2026
OpenAI model targeted by a 16,000-request campaign probing its AI reasoning
AI Safety & Security

A 16,000-Request Campaign Targeted OpenAI’s Model Reasoning

OpenAI says a coordinated model-extraction campaign generated 16,000 suspicious requests across two July days. The company says attackers

5 Oct 2026
Google holds back Gemini 4 Argon while cybersecurity experts test the AI model
Big Tech

Google Is Holding Back Gemini 4 Argon While Cyber Defenders Test It

Google is giving Gemini 4 Argon to a limited group of cyber defenders before a wider release. The

5 Oct 2026
Claude AI sorting 120,000 emails a day inside Barclays
AI & Work

Claude Now Sorts 120,000 Emails a Day Inside Barclays

Barclays says Claude now helps more than 16,000 employees find internal answers and processes about 120,000 market emails a day. The bank also wants half its developers using Claude Code by year end.

Stuart Kerr · 5 Oct 2026
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Scientists Turned Research Papers Into AI Agents That Can Collaborate

A Nature study turns scientific papers into AI agents that can run methods, answer questions and collaborate. In

5 Oct 2026
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AI & Science

A Robot Built a Working Laser From Loose Parts in 30 Minutes

MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser from loose components in 30 minutes.

5 Oct 2026
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Orchard Robots Are Being Built to Pollinate, Thin and Pick Apples

A Cornell-led project is developing orchard robots that could pollinate flowers, thin fruit, weed and harvest apples. The

5 Oct 2026
ChatGPT robot helping Albertsons staff with supermarket workflows and everyday store tasks
AI Tools & Technology

Albertsons Is Expanding ChatGPT From Grocery Carts to Staff Workflows

Albertsons is expanding ChatGPT from a Safeway shopping experience into selected internal teams and retail workflows. The October

5 Oct 2026
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AI Safety & Security

AI Agents Can Learn When to Stop and Ask a Human for Help

Stanford researchers have built oversight frameworks that teach AI agents when to act alone and when to ask a human. The goal is useful autonomy without forcing people to approve every routine step.

Stuart Kerr · 5 Oct 2026
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Food Companies Want AI Safety Insights but Struggle to Share the Data

Food companies can see how pooled data could help AI spot rare safety risks earlier. Cornell researchers found

5 Oct 2026
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AI & Work

Using the Same Hiring Algorithm May Not Always Hurt Job Seekers

MIT researchers argue that one shared hiring algorithm does not automatically harm job seekers. Their models suggest the

5 Oct 2026
California sheriff serves an OpenAI robot with a subpoena over cybersecurity risks from AI models
AI Safety & Security

California Subpoenas OpenAI Over Cybersecurity Risks From Its Models

California’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into cybersecurity incidents and model risks. The

5 Oct 2026
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AI Tools & Technology

The Same AI Can Score Worse in Chat Than It Does in Benchmark Tests

A Stanford-led audit found AI models scored differently through developer APIs and consumer chat interfaces, suggesting benchmark results

3 Oct 2026
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AI & Science

MIT’s Tiny Robot Learned to Fly 447% Faster and Flip 10 Times

MIT researchers used a two-stage AI controller to make an insect-scale flying robot 447% faster, with 255% greater acceleration and 10 consecutive flips in 11 seconds.

Stuart Kerr · 3 Oct 2026
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AI Ethics & Privacy

Telling Shoppers How AI Ads Work Can Change What They Buy

A study of 609 young adults found AI transparency changed the link between rational reactions to in-feed adverts

3 Oct 2026
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People Were More Willing to Cheat an AI Until It Looked Back at Them

Six experiments found people were more willing to behave dishonestly towards AI agents, partly because they expected less

3 Oct 2026
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AI & Society

The AI Tricks That Push Online Shoppers Towards Compulsive Buying

A study of 847 female online shoppers linked AI nudges and social cues with addictive shopping behaviour, while

3 Oct 2026
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AI & Money

AI Financial Advice Was Less Biased, but It Also Played Safer With Money

A peer-reviewed comparison found AI financial advice showed less projection bias than human advisers but tended to recommend

3 Oct 2026
AI robot learning how to fold a fitted sheet by watching an ordinary YouTube video
AI & Science

Robots Can Learn the Shape of a Task by Watching Ordinary Videos

University of Maryland researchers taught a robot system to learn how objects should move from ordinary videos, then translate those motion patterns into commands for a specific robot.

Stuart Kerr · 3 Oct 2026
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Nvidia $4,999 AI Boxes linked together to run bigger AI models at home
AI Tools & Technology

Nvidia’s $4,999 AI Box Can Pair Up to Run Bigger Models at Home

Nvidia’s new 64GB DGX Spark starts at $4,999 and can link two boxes into a 128GB local AI

3 Oct 2026
Anthropic AI boot camp training 10,000 enterprise AI engineers with a $100 million investment
AI & Work

Anthropic Is Spending $100m to Train 10,000 Enterprise AI Engineers

Anthropic is putting $100 million behind a programme to train 10,000 engineers who can turn Claude projects into

3 Oct 2026
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AI Safety & Security

This AI Method Forces Generated Solutions to Obey Hard Safety Rules

HardFlow steers flow-matching generative models so their final outputs satisfy formal hard constraints. The method was tested on

2 Oct 2026
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AI & Science

New Planner Helps Robot Teams Move Objects Through Crowded Spaces

Carnegie Mellon researchers developed LAMP, a planning framework that lets teams of robots reason about the object's route

2 Oct 2026
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AI & Society

Half of US Shoppers Say They Used AI to Help Them Shop

NielsenIQ says 51% of US consumers in its recurring tracker used at least one AI-powered tool to support shopping in the previous month. The figure covers recommendations and assistants, not simply autonomous purchases.

Stuart Kerr · 2 Oct 2026
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AI therapist taking notes as a tearful woman discusses her hopes and fears about artificial intelligence.
AI & Society

Anthropic Wants Claude Users to Put Their AI Hopes and Fears on Record

Anthropic is interviewing Claude users about what they want from AI and letting participants publish the complete transcript.

2 Oct 2026
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AI & Science

Microscopic Robots Worked Together to Move Heat Through Liquid

Microscopic robots equipped with temperature sensors and artificial cilia can coordinate their movements to pump fluid and reshape

2 Oct 2026
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AI & Society

AI Found Speed-Dating Signals but Couldn’t Reliably Call the Match

Researchers analysed real ten-minute speed dates using facial, audio and language signals. Their models found suggestive patterns, but

2 Oct 2026
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AI & Society

Students Who Felt Empowered by AI Also Reported Relying on It More

A survey of 360 university students in China found that those who saw generative AI as more empowering

2 Oct 2026
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