Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News £75M for a national AI policing centre. A kidnapping trial finished 800 hours of footage review in 3 hours. The UK is moving fast — and NZ should be taking notes.
📰 News Meredith Whittaker dismantles the 'AI as companion' framing and warns that agentic AI needs your credit card, browser, and Signal — calling it a backdoor.
📰 News Political warmth from Trump at G7, but the bureaucratic machinery hasn't moved. Anthropic's $965B IPO hangs on regulatory clarity that one interview can't deliver.
📰 News A thinktank fiction about Europe falling behind the US and China on AI has been read by EU parliament members and discussed in UK-German diplomatic channels. Its predictions are already half-true.
📰 News Three decades of failed export controls on encryption, spyware, and now AI models suggest the Anthropic ban will restrict the wrong people.
📰 News AlphaFold co-inventor and 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper announced he's leaving Google DeepMind after 9 years to join Anthropic. His tweet hit 548K views in hours.
📰 News Huawei Ascend 910C chips completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek-V4-Pro's 1.6 trillion parameters across 1,000+ chips, 1,500 iterations, zero errors — China's first domestic-training milestone.
📰 News Anthropic paused Claude Agent SDK billing changes hours before they were set to take effect. Power users who would have faced major cost increases get a reprieve — but for how long?
📰 News A federal judge forced OpenAI to hand over 20 million conversations users thought they deleted. There is no legal privilege for what you tell ChatGPT.
📰 News Amazon MGM shelved Luca Guadagnino's nearly-finished Altman biopic months after a $50B OpenAI deal. The timing is not subtle.
📰 News The UK's AI and data regulator has lost its leader — the first ICO commissioner to ever resign mid-term, amid a workplace investigation and pending government reforms.
📰 News Barret Zoph left OpenAI in 2024, co-founded Mira Murati's rival lab, came back in January 2026, and is now gone again. OpenAI's enterprise push just lost its leader.