On Thursday morning US time, the cloud AI services run by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI all degraded within the same few hours. The overlap is rare, and it punctures a common assumption: that ...

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face in a deal worth roughly $12.9bn (£9.5bn) — about $11.9bn (£8.8bn) to investors, plus up to $1bn (£740m) in stock incentives for staff who join. It is one of the chipmaker ...

A survey of 9,684 employees finds two-thirds have used AI for tasks beyond their own ability, and one in five credits it with helping win a promotion. Ask employees whether the technology makes them ...

Guernsey and Sussex forces say the detail in a first-day photograph can seed deepfakes or let strangers work out a child's school, route and routine. Officers in Guernsey have issued a caution to ...

Edinburgh researchers find ambient scribes strip out gesture, emotion and patient narrative, and may erode the clinical memory that note-writing builds. Roughly two in five UK GPs now let an AI tool ...

AI search sent 0.3% of the retailer's customers a year ago and now sends 2.5%. Its answer is a Christmas vodcast built to feed the models third-party content. John Lewis is launching a YouTube chat ...

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has handled its first AI hallucination case, and the answer to “what actually happens to you” is now on the record: erasure. Abhishek Kumar, a registered foreign ...

Manchester and Edinburgh researchers find AI adoption concentrated in London and the South East, and warn government plans could widen the gap rather than close it. Academics at Manchester and ...

At least 20 projects are in the Scottish planning pipeline, including one billed as the world's second largest. Campaigners want a pause; Swinney has declined one. Hundreds of protesters gathered ...

Unit 42 says agents handled reconnaissance, credential theft and lateral movement in a breach that would normally take two weeks — then wrote the victim an audit. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has documented an ...

Matt Clifford, who drafted the AI action plan the government is still working through, has taken a senior post at Anthropic handling its relationships with governments beyond the United States. He ...

At a G20 innovation meeting in Chapel Hill, the United States asked other governments to commit to writing no new AI-specific law, reserving rules for genuinely novel situations only. The document, ...