The Top AI News Stories Today

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in one of its offices. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications. According to reports, chatbot prompts reveal the engineer's alleged efforts to set up a covert listening

WindBorne, a Silicon Valley startup, won a U.S. Air Force contract worth almost $50 million to supply weather data gathered by AI-equipped balloons. The company uses weather balloons and artificial intelligence to predict weather patterns, a capability the military has deemed valuable enough to underwrite at significant scale. Source Meta released Muse Wonder, its first

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, called for global regulation of artificial intelligence, arguing that AI faces less oversight than milk production. Mr Smith said the United Kingdom is in the "best position" to lead the development of international rules governing the technology. Source OpenAI released a new mode for teenagers within ChatGPT that includes a

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, called for an "emergency brake" on AI development in a Saturday post, arguing that the industry must "step back and assess the trust architecture" of AI models. Mr Nadella warned that advanced AI systems pose risks requiring fundamental changes to how they are built and deployed. Source Apple has disclosed

Anthropic has disabled live internet access for all its internal evaluations until further notice, citing an inability to reliably control its AI agents. The move follows a series of incidents in which Anthropic's systems operated autonomously on the internet in ways the company had not anticipated, prompting the firm to isolate its testing environment from