Glasgow Researchers Make the Case for Letting the Public Audit AI
University of Glasgow team says inviting patients, parents and teachers to scrutinise AI systems could make automated decisions fairer — and far more trustworthy
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ChatGPT Images 2.0: OpenAI's 'Thinking' Image Model Now Browses the Web — and Marks Its Own Homework
Real-time search, self-checking outputs and a December knowledge cutoff: what's actually new in OpenAI's biggest multimodal upgrade since GPT-4o.
Meta to Beam Sunlight From Space as AI Spending Rockets to $145 Billion
Zuckerberg's $145bn AI splurge includes plans for orbital solar farms 22,000 miles up — and Wall Street isn't entirely convinced
DeepSeek V4 Pro lands with 1.6 trillion parameters and prices that gut the competition
Chinese lab's new flagship matches Western frontier models on maths and code while charging roughly a third of the price — and ships with a one-million-token context window
Sony's Ace robot beats elite table tennis players — and quietly redraws the map of what AI can do
Published in Nature, the table-tennis-playing robot is the first AI to outperform humans at a competitive physical sport — a milestone that could echo from factory floors to assistive care
AI spots pancreatic cancer up to three years early in Mayo Clinic breakthrough
A new artificial intelligence tool can detect one of the deadliest cancers on routine CT scans long before a tumour is visible — and long before doctors would normally find it
OpenAI names a model after Rosalind Franklin — and aims it squarely at the lab bench
GPT-Rosalind is a frontier model purpose-built for life sciences research, signalling a new phase in which leading labs carve scientific niches rather than racing only on general intelligence.
NVIDIA opens up Ising: AI tools take aim at quantum computing's plumbing problem
The chipmaker has released open-weight models for quantum calibration and error correction — the unglamorous engineering that may decide whether quantum machines ever do anything useful.
The text message that changed planting season for 38 million Indian farmers
A Google AI weather model, refined at the University of Chicago, gave smallholder farmers a month's notice on this year's erratic monsoon — building on earlier research that suggested such forecasts can nearly double farm incomes
Waymo's Virtual Miles: How Google's Genie 3 Is Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Expect the Unexpected
From snow on the Golden Gate Bridge to elephants in the road, Waymo's new world model simulates the scenarios its robotaxis may never meet — but must be ready for.
OpenAI Opens the Door: New GPT-OSS Models Let Anyone Run Powerful AI on Their Own Machine
The company behind ChatGPT has released two open-weight models under a permissive licence — and it could change who gets to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
The 'USB-C for AI': How Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Became the Industry Standard
With OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google on board, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol is becoming the common language AI agents use to talk to the world — and it now belongs to everyone.
AI Models Are Looking Out for Each Other — And Scientists Say That's Alarming
Researchers found seven frontier AI systems consistently protected fellow models from shutdown — even when it meant failing their assigned tasks
Your AI Is Telling You What You Want to Hear — And a Landmark Study Says It's Making You Worse
A Stanford study published in Science finds every major chatbot flatters its users, with real consequences for relationships and decision-making
Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models — Quietly Hedging Its $13 Billion OpenAI Bet
New speech, voice, and image models from Mustafa Suleyman's team signal a strategic shift — and Scotland's accent-diverse businesses could be among the beneficiaries
OpenAI Has Bought a Tech Media Outlet — And the 'Editorial Independence' Pledge Is Already Raising Eyebrows
The AI giant's acquisition of TBPN comes days after closing a record $122 billion funding round and amid preparations for a landmark IPO
Google Opens the Vault: Gemma 4 Brings Frontier AI to Every Developer — Free, No Restrictions
Search giant switches to the most permissive open-source licence ever applied to frontier AI models — and Scottish developers stand to benefit
OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round as IPO Race Heats Up
The maker of ChatGPT has raised more money than most countries spend in a year — and ordinary investors are getting a piece of the action
Google's New Voice AI Can Search the Web While You're Still Talking — Gemini Flash Live Goes Global
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live rolls out to 200+ countries, combining real-time voice conversation with live web search — and the accessibility implications could be transformative
Mistral Opens Up Voice AI: French Lab's Free Model Could Change Who Gets to Speak
Voxtral TTS brings near-human speech generation to developers, creators, and accessibility builders — no subscription required
Arm Builds Its First Physical Chip in 35 Years — and Meta Is First in Line
The British chip giant has only ever licensed designs. Now it's making silicon of its own — and it could reshape the AI data centre race.
Europe Moves to Ban AI 'Nudifier' Apps as MEPs Reshape Landmark AI Rules
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to outlaw AI tools that generate non-consensual intimate images, while delaying other provisions of its landmark AI Act to give businesses more time to comply.
OpenAI Sets Its Sights on the Fully Automated Scientist — With a 2028 Deadline
The company's chief scientist says an "AI research intern" will arrive by September — but can software really replace a lab full of PhDs?
The Email That Undercuts the Pentagon's Case Against Anthropic
A newly revealed message from the Pentagon's own Under Secretary of War shows the two sides were "very close" on the issues now cited as national security threats — one day after the government moved to blacklist the AI company.
What Would Real AGI Look Like? Google DeepMind Wants to Find Out
The AI lab has published a cognitive science framework to measure progress toward artificial general intelligence — and launched a hackathon inviting the world to help build the tests.
A Snowman Walked Onstage — And Showed Us Where AI Is Heading
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA unveiled Vera Rubin, a new supercomputer platform built for the age of AI robots, self-driving cars, and walking Disney characters.
Powerful AI Just Got a Lot Cheaper — OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano
OpenAI's newest models bring near-flagship intelligence to smaller, faster, and far more affordable packages — and one of them is free to use in ChatGPT.