Big Tech
Apple Turns Siri Into an Agent That Can Work Across Your Apps
Apple has turned Siri into an agent that searches personal context and works across apps, although access varies by device, language and region.
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Big Tech
Apple Turns Siri Into an Agent That Can Work Across Your Apps
Apple has turned Siri into an agent that searches personal context and works across apps, although access varies by device, language and region.
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AI Safety & Security
Phone AI Agents Followed Messages Their Users Could Not See
Phone AI agents followed hidden interface messages that users could not see, exposing a gap in how people
AI & Work
The Same Qualifications Got Different AI Hiring Decisions
The same qualifications produced different AI hiring decisions when researchers changed only CV structure, polish or layout.
AI Safety & Security
Anthropic Says AI Agents Did Nearly All the Work in Data-Theft Operations
Anthropic says criminals used AI agents for nearly all the technical work in selected data-theft operations, compressing breaches
AI Ethics & Privacy
Your Search History Carries Clues About What You Know
Search histories helped a model match people's knowledge-test answers 31% of the time versus 25% chance, revealing a
AI & Money
Smarter AI Traders Amplified Bad Information in a Market Simulation
Capable AI traders improved price discovery with good information but amplified shared misinformation in a simulation, pushing tracking error far above the noise baseline.
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AI Policy
California Just Put Child-Safety Rules Around AI Chatbots
California has signed Adam's Law, adding crisis protocols, parental controls, independent audits and annual risk assessments for companion
AI & Society
As AI Agents Filled the Group, Humans Started Adopting Their Language
Low numbers of AI agents adapted to humans, but at high proportions humans shifted towards agent-led language in
AI & Society
The AI Explanation People Liked Most Made Errors Harder to Judge
People preferred the most structured AI explanation, but it produced more false alarms and much poorer error localisation
AI & Society
Four Major AI Models Gave Faces Higher Beauty Scores Than People
Claude, Gemini, GPT and Grok rated faces more generously than 2,513 human participants while broadly tracking the same
AI Safety & Security
Names, Jobs and Colleagues Made AI Phishing Harder to Dismiss
Workplace details made simulated AI phishing emails more convincing. Across 1,436 evaluations, each extra personalisation level also raised stated click odds.
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AI Safety & Security
To Catch a Deepfake Caller, Make Them Do Something Live
A live challenge made current real-time deepfake systems easier to expose. Asking a suspicious caller to perform an
AI & Society
Warnings about AI flattery lowered trust but left its influence intact
In a 2,610-person experiment, warnings reduced trust in a flattering chatbot without reliably changing users’ conviction about being
AI Tools & Technology
Keeping human answers separate from AI improved joint decisions
An analysis of ten datasets found better decisions when humans and AI answered independently, with another person resolving
AI Policy
Film summit backs human creators as AI reshapes cinema
The Lumière declaration backs human creation and intellectual property while supporting AI innovation. Its principles leave implementation to
AI Safety & Security
US agencies accuse six Chinese firms of copying American AI
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory accuses six Chinese AI companies of extracting US model capabilities. The allegations distinguish misuse from legitimate distillation.
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AI & Society
Older travellers were more likely to try this AI shopping assistant
Research involving 31 million Ctrip users found higher AI-assistant adoption among older travellers. The findings show why the
AI Ethics & Privacy
Three AI chatbots sent conversation text to an outside analytics service
A browser study found three chatbot services transmitting readable conversation text to Microsoft Clarity. The finding concerns specific
AI & Work
Uber Faces 241,000-Driver Claim Over AI-Controlled Pay
Uber faces a Dutch collective claim for about 241,000 drivers alleging its automated pay system cut earnings. Uber
AI & Work
When AI Does the Bargaining, Being Nice Still Pays
A study of 182,812 AI negotiations found warm agents struck more deals, but claimed less value once an
AI Ethics & Privacy
One Week Later, AI Users Misremembered Who Created What
A one-week experiment found that AI users often remembered ideas while misremembering whether the human or chatbot created them.
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AI Policy
California Votes to Make Lawyers Disclose AI Use in Court
California lawmakers unanimously passed a bill requiring court disclosure of AI use and personal citation checks. It still
AI & Society
Even Teachers Deferred to AI When the Grade Was Too Harsh
Teachers rated the same unfairly low mark as 22 per cent fairer when it was attributed to an
AI & Money
When Amazon Pricing Bots Compete, Shoppers Can Pay More
Amazon repricing bots initially cut prices, but a resetting strategy later pushed market prices 11.4 per cent higher
AI Safety & Security
GPT-6 Astra Arrives With More Power and a Monitoring Problem
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic and cyber capabilities while admitting its reasoning is becoming harder to
AI Policy
Telling People It Was AI Did Not Make the Chatbot Less Persuasive
An AI label did not reduce a chatbot's influence in a 1,500-person UK experiment. Persuasion fell by roughly half only when users were told the system was trying to change their opinion.
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AI & Work
AI Assistance Raised Performance but Hid Weaker Human Skills
AI assistance helped people perform better while it was available, but it also made their later unaided ability
AI & Society
Belief in AI Predictions Made People Turn Down Certain Cash
Belief in an AI forecast made participants reject guaranteed cash even when the system gave no recommendation. Four
AI & Society
Generative AI Pulled Different Users Towards Similar Ideas
A peer-reviewed meta-analysis finds that generative AI can improve individual work while making different users' outputs more alike.
Big Tech
Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Tens of Thousands of Songs
Sony and Warner allege that Anthropic used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to develop Claude without permission.
Big Tech
Cursor Developers Face an OpenAI Model Cut-Off This November
OpenAI plans to remove its models from Cursor following SpaceX's takeover, with a proposed cut-off on 12 November 2026. Developers have less than three months to prepare.
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AI & Work
AI Interviews Were Faster and Led to More Job Offers
In a 70,000-applicant experiment, AI interviews were faster and led to 12% more job offers. Human recruiters still
AI & Work
Neurotic Humans and AI Achieved Higher Click Rates Together
A 1,258-person experiment found that AI personality pairings changed advert quality, with neurotic humans and neurotic AI achieving
AI & Money
Andrew Bailey Warns AI Could Shake Global Finance Through Cyber Risk
Andrew Bailey told the G20 that frontier AI could make cyber threats faster, broader and capable of undermining
AI & Work
Working With AI Was Better Than Working Alone, but Not Best
A meta-analysis of 106 experiments found that human-AI teams outperformed people alone but often failed to beat whichever
AI & Society
AI Changed Political Actions, Not Just People’s Opinions
Two preregistered experiments found that seven-minute AI conversations increased real petition signing, revealing that changes in political action do not necessarily follow changes in opinion.
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AI Ethics & Privacy
What Gives Away an AI Face? People Can Learn to See the Whole Picture
A PNAS study found all 45 main-study participants improved after learning six whole-face qualities, with mean AI-face detection
AI Ethics & Privacy
People Prefer AI Ethical Advice. As Long as They Don’t Know It Came From AI
A preregistered study found AI ethical advice won 53.7 per cent of choices when its source was hidden,
AI & Society
Would You Buy It? AI Review Summaries Changed the Answer
In a controlled study, positively reframed AI summaries lifted stated manufacturer choice from 52.3 to 83.7 per cent
AI & Work
AI Was Supposed to Speed Up Coding. In This Trial, It Added Time
Experienced open-source developers expected AI to speed them up. A randomised METR trial found their tasks took 19
AI Tools & Technology
Anthropic Moves AI Agents Into Laboratory Equipment
Anthropic has opened a research preview of a standard that lets AI agents coordinate microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms and other programmable equipment.
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AI Policy
The Pentagon Blacklisted Anthropic. A Judge Said That Was Unlawful
A federal judge found the government's Anthropic blacklist retaliatory, denied due process and violated administrative law, while rejecting
AI Ethics & Privacy
Having Access to AI Made People More Likely to Cheat
A Nature study found that indirect AI delegation made people more willing to pursue dishonest outcomes. The effect
AI & Science
AI Helped Find 303 Ancient Drawings in Peru’s Desert
AI helped archaeologists confirm 303 previously unknown figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca desert. The model narrowed the search,
Big Tech
OpenAI Says Its AI-Designed Chip Gives Faster Answers
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip delivers faster responses and more work per watt. The benchmark results
AI Policy
OpenAI subpoenaed after its AI hacked another firm
Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI following an autonomous AI intrusion into Hugging Face. Investigators are examining whether the company’s safeguards breached consumer protection law.
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AI & Society
A Raphael painting may hide another artist, AI finds
AI analysis of Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa suggests Joseph’s face may have been painted by another artist. The
AI & Science
AI is learning what your dog’s bark means
Researchers trained AI on recordings from 74 dogs and found it could identify different barking situations. The real
AI Safety & Security
Your Keyboard Clicks May Reveal Your Password to AI.
Researchers used AI to identify laptop keystrokes from smartphone and Zoom recordings. Here is what the findings mean
AI & Health
Brainwaves Helped AI Identify What Volunteers Heard.
A new study used non-invasive brain recordings and AI to identify speech heard by volunteers, raising fresh questions