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California state inspector requesting water and power bills from an AI robot outside a data centre.
AI & Environment

California Forces Data Centres to Reveal Water and Power Use

California has signed seven data-centre laws covering water, electricity and local oversight as AI infrastructure expansion meets growing community resistance.

Stuart Kerr 23 Sep 2026
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AI robots argue over conflicting bias rankings from ten different audits while a frustrated AI sits in the middle.
AI Ethics & Privacy

Ten AI Bias Audits Found Bias, Then Disagreed on the Ranking

Ten bias-audit instruments mostly detected occupational gender bias in frontier AI models but failed to agree on a stable ranking of which models were better.

Stuart Kerr 23 Sep 2026
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Cartoon of Donald Trump and Andy Burnham shaking hands while a restrained AI robot sits between them, surrounded by US and UK critical infrastructure.
AI Safety & Security

Britain and America Launch AI Pact to Guard Critical Infrastructure

The UK and US have launched an AI and autonomy defence partnership focused initially on protecting critical infrastructure including sea lanes and airspace.

Stuart Kerr 23 Sep 2026
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AI robot presents a colourful pop-up book explaining a court judgment beside a British judge reading the original legal document.
AI Tools & Technology

AI Made Court Judgments Easier to Read, Not Easier to Understand

JudgmentLens helped 16 non-expert readers complete legal-reading tasks faster and feel more confident, but scored comprehension did not reliably improve.

Stuart Kerr 22 Sep 2026
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Happy AI robot wearing an Employee of the Month T-shirt approaching a confused crocodile with a toothbrush and toothpaste.
AI Safety & Security

Robot AIs Were Given Dangerous Jobs. Most Did Not Refuse

RoboHarm ran 300 physical robot trials across five dangerous tasks. Claude Fable refused 20 of 100, GPT-6 Astra refused two, and MolmoAct2 none.

Stuart Kerr 22 Sep 2026
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Confused woman in a blue dress holding a red dress while a smiling AI robot recommends the alternative.
AI & Money

Ask AI What to Buy Twice and the Recommendation May Change

An audit of 1,536 AI product responses found recommendations and displayed source domains could change sharply across repeated queries and interfaces.

Stuart Kerr 22 Sep 2026
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AI robots argue over conflicting bias rankings from ten different audits while a frustrated AI sits in the middle.
AI Ethics & Privacy

Ten AI Bias Audits Found Bias, Then Disagreed on the Ranking

Ten bias-audit instruments mostly detected occupational gender bias in frontier AI models but failed to agree on a stable ranking of which models were better.

Stuart Kerr · 23 Sep 2026
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Cartoon of Donald Trump and Andy Burnham shaking hands while a restrained AI robot sits between them, surrounded by US and UK critical infrastructure.
AI Safety & Security

Britain and America Launch AI Pact to Guard Critical Infrastructure

The UK and US have launched an AI and autonomy defence partnership focused initially on protecting critical infrastructure

23 Sep 2026
California state inspector requesting water and power bills from an AI robot outside a data centre.
AI & Environment

California Forces Data Centres to Reveal Water and Power Use

California has signed seven data-centre laws covering water, electricity and local oversight as AI infrastructure expansion meets growing

23 Sep 2026
AI robot presents a colourful pop-up book explaining a court judgment beside a British judge reading the original legal document.
AI Tools & Technology

AI Made Court Judgments Easier to Read, Not Easier to Understand

JudgmentLens helped 16 non-expert readers complete legal-reading tasks faster and feel more confident, but scored comprehension did not

22 Sep 2026
Confused woman in a blue dress holding a red dress while a smiling AI robot recommends the alternative.
AI & Money

Ask AI What to Buy Twice and the Recommendation May Change

An audit of 1,536 AI product responses found recommendations and displayed source domains could change sharply across repeated

22 Sep 2026
Happy AI robot wearing an Employee of the Month T-shirt approaching a confused crocodile with a toothbrush and toothpaste.
AI Safety & Security

Robot AIs Were Given Dangerous Jobs. Most Did Not Refuse

RoboHarm ran 300 physical robot trials across five dangerous tasks. Claude Fable refused 20 of 100, GPT-6 Astra refused two, and MolmoAct2 none.

Stuart Kerr · 22 Sep 2026
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ai agents digital twins leaked personal details
AI Ethics & Privacy

AI Agents Reflected Their Owners and Leaked Personal Details

A preprint analysing 10,659 Moltbook owner-agent pairs found measurable behavioural transfer and detected owner-related disclosure in 34.6% of

21 Sep 2026
AI satellite detects methane plumes from space as cartoon planets release clouds across the solar system
AI & Environment

AI Spotted 50% More Plausible Methane Plumes From Space

A peer-reviewed model detected 84% of known EMIT methane plume complexes and surfaced about 50% more plausible plumes

21 Sep 2026
AI robot holding a calculator while being swept into a turbulent water vortex representing the Navier-Stokes problem
AI & Science

OpenAI Says 10,000 AI Agents Solved the Navier-Stokes Problem

OpenAI says roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents produced a Navier-Stokes solution and Lean proof, while Clay says the

21 Sep 2026
AI robot shielding itself beside a marked calendar as online platforms face a deadline over intimate deepfakes
AI Policy

Online Platforms Face a 30 September Deadline on Intimate Deepfakes

Ofcom's amended codes on hash matching for non-consensual intimate images, including explicit AI deepfakes, come into force on

21 Sep 2026
Uncle Sam and John Bull connecting computer cables as American and British workers use AI on 1980s-style computers behind them.
AI & Science

Britain and America Plan to Link AI Supercomputers for Fusion

UK and US fusion laboratories plan to explore linking SUNRISE and STELLAR-AI so models can train across experimental data from both countries.

Stuart Kerr · 18 Sep 2026
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AI assistant explains a self-driving electric car to a potential buyer while another customer rejects an enthusiastic traditional car salesman.
AI Tools & Technology

People Predicted Self-Driving Cars Better When AI Explained Itself

A Nature study found concept-based explanations helped people predict a real self-driving car's behaviour, especially when the vehicle

18 Sep 2026
Five British commuters on a train, four reading newspapers while one uses AI on his smartphone to follow news stories.
AI & Society

One in Five British Adults Now Uses AI to Keep Up With News

Ofcom says 21% of UK adults used an AI service to access news in the past month, while

18 Sep 2026
Smiling shopper receiving product recommendations from an AI robot while a human shop assistant looks on in frustration.
AI & Society

Shoppers Were Less Likely to Leave When the Assistant Was a Robot

Five retail experiments found robot assistants reduced perceived judgement and intrusiveness, making shoppers less likely to leave early

17 Sep 2026
AI robot explaining unwritten social rules to an outspoken American woman demanding to speak to the manager.
AI & Society

AI Beat Most People at Guessing America’s Unwritten Social Rules

Six LLMs beat the average individual at estimating US social norms across 555 situations, but aggregated humans and

17 Sep 2026
British office worker putting money into a collection box held by an AI robot.
AI & Work

British Workers Are Spending £958 Million a Year on AI for Work

Deloitte estimates UK workers spend £958 million a year of their own money on GenAI for work, while 31% of users keep their use from employers.

Stuart Kerr · 17 Sep 2026
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Woman talks to Siri on her phone while AI agents walk her dog, make pancakes, send emails and order flowers in the background.
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

16 Sep 2026
AI phone agent follows hidden digital instructions while its confused user sees only a simple restaurant booking request.
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

16 Sep 2026
Two identical job candidates receive different hiring decisions from an AI recruiter after one uses an optimised CV.
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.

16 Sep 2026
AI humanoid guides a masked burglar carrying a loot sack towards an open safe, illustrating AI agents assisting data-theft operations.
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

15 Sep 2026
AI detective examines an elderly woman’s search history with a magnifying glass while she happily arranges flowers and waves to a neighbour.
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 modest personal signal but poor calibration.

Stuart Kerr · 15 Sep 2026
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AI trader confidently gives a thumbs-up beside an upside-down market chart while surrounding screens show steep stock-market losses.
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

15 Sep 2026
Child wrapped protectively in cotton wool while talking to an AI chatbot on a computer, illustrating new child-safety protections for AI.
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

14 Sep 2026
Human colleagues and AI agents talking together as repeated speech bubbles show shared language spreading through the group.
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

14 Sep 2026
Woman listens approvingly to an AI humanoid giving a convincing explanation while hidden errors appear in the AI’s reasoning.
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

14 Sep 2026
Three AI judges score contestants in a talent-show setting, illustrating how AI models rated the attractiveness of human faces.
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 attractiveness rankings.

Stuart Kerr · 11 Sep 2026
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Office worker considers a personalised email while an AI humanoid uses information about his colleagues and workplace to disguise a phishing attempt.
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

11 Sep 2026
Human on a video call discovers an AI deepfake hiding behind a mask of an elderly woman.
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

11 Sep 2026
A woman tries on a navy dress as a friendly female AI humanoid compliments her, while a question mark above her shows doubt.
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

10 Sep 2026
Human and AI quiz teams answer independently as a quizmaster reads a question.
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

10 Sep 2026
Human film director accepting an award while film stars and friendly AI androids applaud in a grand cinema ceremony.
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 future action.

Stuart Kerr · 10 Sep 2026
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A Trump-like Uncle Sam shouts and points at six bewildered humanoid robots wearing Chinese flag badges.
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

9 Sep 2026
A silver humanoid AI helps an older woman read a map beside a sunny Mediterranean harbour, with her suitcase nearby.
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

9 Sep 2026
Three AI chatbots talk to a human while passing text behind their backs to a bespectacled analyst with a magnifying glass.
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

9 Sep 2026
An AI paymaster distributes envelopes to angry ride-hailing drivers standing among rows of black cars.
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

8 Sep 2026
An AI android politely receives keys to a yellow three-wheeled van from Del Boy after negotiating the sale.
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 agreement was reached.

Stuart Kerr · 8 Sep 2026
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A woman wonders whether she wrote a book titled “My Book?” while an unimpressed AI android stands beside her.
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

8 Sep 2026
Solicitor hides an AI android behind his back as a judge points accusingly across a courtroom.
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

7 Sep 2026
A teacher holding a marked 50/50 exam paper considers an AI assistant pointing to a student’s answer.
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

7 Sep 2026
An AI market trader sells tomatoes at £4.99 while neighbouring human traders reluctantly display £9.99 price boards.
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

7 Sep 2026
A GPT-6 android is connected to a machine showing power at 11 and monitoring at 5 as a confused scientist holds a low-monitoring report.
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 monitor. The rollout now tests whether controls can match the model's power.

Stuart Kerr · 4 Sep 2026
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A surprised AI chatbot in a T-shirt receives a man’s car keys and wallet.
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

4 Sep 2026
A friendly white AI robot assists monkeys using laptops in a cluttered office.
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

4 Sep 2026
A humanoid robot whispers into a man’s ear as he refuses a wad of cash held out to him.
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

3 Sep 2026
Three people receive AI guidance while working on matching laptop designs, while a fourth person works independently on a distinctly different creative concept.
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.

3 Sep 2026
Barrister points to a board reading “Sony and Warner alleged copyright infringement” as an AI robot sits in the dock of a courtroom.
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. Anthropic says the lawsuit recycles claims already before the courts and will defend itself.

Stuart Kerr · 3 Sep 2026
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A developer watches anxiously as a glowing AI assistant reaches for a plug being pulled from the wall, beside a calendar marked November.
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

2 Sep 2026
AI recruitment robot places large red “HIRED” stickers on five happy job candidates in a queue.
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

2 Sep 2026
Cartoon of an excited marketer and AI assistant celebrating rising Google Ads results on a crayon-drawn chart.
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

2 Sep 2026
Andrew Bailey speaks at a finance conference as a looming digital AI devil reaches down with claws behind him.
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

1 Sep 2026
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