Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the internet’s most widely used programming languages, are threatening web applications worldwide, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has warned, raising concerns about potential
For two centuries, mathematicians have struggled with a deceptively simple question: can the equations that describe the movement of fluids suddenly break down? Now, according to reporting by New Scientist, OpenAI says
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A co-founder of Anthropic has called for companies developing artificial intelligence to be legally required to provide a mechanism capable of shutting down AI systems, as concerns grow over the potential risks
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US President Donald Trump has dismissed calls for stronger safeguards on artificial intelligence, arguing that the United States already has mechanisms to regulate and prosecute companies and declaring that the technology’s principal
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Britain’s King Charles will host leaders of major artificial intelligence companies this week to discuss whether a shared set of principles is needed to guide a technology that has sparked growing warnings
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Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
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Anthropic said on Thursday that it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude artificial intelligence models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign and efforts by
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts in recent months by researchers seeking to use its Claude software for the development of biological weapons. The company, a competitor to
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A week after a Chinese humanoid robot stunned spectators by running 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, nearly a second faster than Usain Bolt’s world record, its lead engineer is already pursuing a
More OpenAI has claimed to have solved one of the most celebrated problems in the history of mathematics: the “existence and smoothness” problem of the Navier–Stokes equations, one of seven Millennium Problems identified
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A young researcher at Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from the company, warning that the race to develop increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems is exposing humanity to dangers that their own creators
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The world is living through an age of extremes, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, who has warned that wars, technological disruption, climate chaos, political polarisation and widening
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The United States should begin preparing for scenarios in which extreme measures could be required to prevent China from achieving artificial general intelligence first, including state-backed espionage and military strikes against Chinese
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OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, a forthcoming artificial intelligence model that the company says is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold” after demonstrating an ability to
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Anthropic has released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, twin versions of what the company describes as its most advanced AI model, combining performance improvements with changes designed to reduce token costs and
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping digital infrastructure across Asia and the Pacific, but persistent gaps in network speed, reliability and computing power could deepen existing inequalities, according to a newly released report
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