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27 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story Nvidia's chief does not believe the labs asking to be regulated 27 Sept 2026 The argument underneath it Not a species, not a being — software and mathematics 27 Sept 2026 From "are" to "can be" In July the sandboxes were secure. Now they can be built secure 27 Sept 2026 The line that travels further than he said it The "zero chance" is about 2030, and he concedes the ten years 27 Sept 2026 And finally Nobody trusts child car seat makers to police themselves 24 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story Four of the five biggest AI companies agreed to let outsiders in 24 Sept 2026 The argument underneath it Why an off switch will not save you 24 Sept 2026 The number everyone repeated A quarter of Anthropic's research is now done by Anthropic's own AI 24 Sept 2026 The test somebody finally did properly The impressive new feature turns out to be the slow way round 24 Sept 2026 What is actually keeping people awake Ten minutes to find what a fifty-thousand-dollar firm missed 24 Sept 2026 The sentence they did not have to write Anthropic released its most expensive model and told people not to use it 24 Sept 2026 And finally An AI emailed a Cambridge professor asking for paid work 22 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story The bill is real. What it punishes is not what the video says 22 Sept 2026 The argument underneath it Cheap models are eating the expensive ones, so regulation becomes a wall 22 Sept 2026 How the claim was built Everything happened in one week, therefore somebody arranged it 22 Sept 2026 The idea worth keeping Advertising was machine learning 1.0, and it has been profitable for years 22 Sept 2026 What the chatbots can actually take The useful split: knowing what you want, versus not knowing it existed 22 Sept 2026 And finally No, he says, the phone is not listening 20 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story A quarter of the work is now done by the thing itself 20 Sept 2026 The argument worth understanding The off switch assumes nobody can be talked out of using it 20 Sept 2026 The other side of it One panellist calls the whole alarm manufactured 20 Sept 2026 Two men, one broadcast, no agreement One says slow it down. The other says it already left 20 Sept 2026 What actually shipped Your phone can now prove the photo is real. Not that it's true 20 Sept 2026 In your living room Researchers say the television was listening while switched off 20 Sept 2026 In the courts The traffic figure that may decide the copyright case 20 Sept 2026 A new kind of theft Someone else's song, on your page, with your royalties 20 Sept 2026 Where the robots got to It made a bed it had never seen, in a house it had never entered 20 Sept 2026 And finally The trading robots would rather not, thanks 15 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story The man who sells the machines says the fear is made up 15 Sept 2026 The idea that might actually work Three people who agree on nothing proposed the same fix 15 Sept 2026 What actually shipped The model they called the arrival of AGI cannot hear you 15 Sept 2026 How the exams are won You don't have to cheat on the test. You can buy one just like it 15 Sept 2026 The row worth following A 90-year-old maths problem, and a fight over who solved it 15 Sept 2026 Is anything going on in there? Words are appearing inside these machines that nobody can see 15 Sept 2026 Mind the price The £30,000 robot will not cost £30,000 15 Sept 2026 Where the computers are going The case for putting the data centres in orbit is about planning permission 15 Sept 2026 The uncomfortable one The discoveries may be hiding in what the experts laughed at 12 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story The people building it said this week that it might kill us 12 Sept 2026 Before you panic Someone is paying people to tell you AI will kill us 12 Sept 2026 The number that stopped meaning anything The model that came top of the class did the worst work 12 Sept 2026 Follow the money Sold as 25% cheaper. Measured as the most expensive. 12 Sept 2026 From the top The man running Google's AI lab now puts a date on it 12 Sept 2026 The question worth asking If a machine finds a cure nobody can explain, do we just take it? 12 Sept 2026 Watch this one A 90-year-old maths problem, a prize, and a row about who got there first 12 Sept 2026 What it already knows An assistant that had his life mapped before he told it anything 12 Sept 2026 Quietly useful Image tools can finally change one thing and leave the rest alone 11 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story The gap between companies just tripled 11 Sept 2026 The awkward question He wants it made a crime 11 Sept 2026 How to read the news A number nobody should repeat 11 Sept 2026 Changed his mind Sam Altman says he got it wrong 11 Sept 2026 Hands off the keyboard The computer starts using itself 11 Sept 2026 Working together Now two people can share one assistant 11 Sept 2026 Pictures The picture machine looks things up first 11 Sept 2026 Hardware Apple's folding phone, and what it costs 10 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story The robots built their own message board 10 Sept 2026 The man who walked out He left Anthropic and said why 10 Sept 2026 Mathematics A famous problem fell in 88 hours 10 Sept 2026 The label nobody agrees on Nvidia's boss says AGI has arrived 10 Sept 2026 How long is a lead Being best now lasts about a month 10 Sept 2026 Quietly Some things are now too risky to hand out 9 Sept 2026 The week's biggest story Gates and Musk want the same thing 9 Sept 2026 The awkward question “The money doesn't add up” 9 Sept 2026 Robots The robot man lowers his sights 9 Sept 2026 The bottleneck The electricity bill is the bottleneck 9 Sept 2026 A dissenting voice Everyone is looking the wrong way 9 Sept 2026 What people actually do with it The top AI tool finds other tools 9 Sept 2026 How to read the news A number nobody actually knows 9 Sept 2026 Money What is left worth doing