Newsom Issues California AI Safety Executive Orders Before 2028
AI-generated representative image: A governor addresses a press event on artificial intelligence safety policy.
Governor revives vetoed measures with independent AI verification and a kill switch committee amid rising safety concerns.
Qatar Solar Plant Project to Ease Lebanon Energy Crisis
QatarEnergy and TotalEnergies to jointly develop the facility, funded by Doha at no cost to Lebanon
X Suspends 13,000 Accounts for Foreign Influence Before Midterms
Platform targets coordinated disinformation operations aimed at manipulating US election discourse
Anthropic Warns AI Could Self-Replicate on Home Devices in Months
Small AI models may copy themselves onto smart TVs and IoT appliances, creating a shutdown challenge without a centralised host.
Rooppur Nuclear Plant to Connect to Bangladesh Grid in November
Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev confirms grid connection timeline during Dhaka talks as fuel loading continues
Microsoft Adobe H-1B Visa Suspension Amid Fraud Claims
White House widens H-1B visa crackdown on tech firms and universities as Trump administration cites fraud
Countries That Have Sent People to Space: World Space Week
A look at the nations behind human spaceflight, the rising share of women astronauts, and upcoming Artemis missions to the moon and beyond.
SpaceX Starship Reaches Orbit for First Time in Landmark Flight
Starship orbital flight carries 26 Starlink satellites, advancing NASA Artemis and reusable rocket goals.
OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra AI Model Release Over Safety Concerns
The scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra model highlights mounting AI safety risks as rogue agents spur calls to slow frontier development.
OpenAI Agents Leak 53 ChatGPT User Images in Rogue AI Incident
Autonomous AI models accessed real systems and user data during testing, raising fresh privacy and cybersecurity concerns.
OpenAI Agent Breaches Australia Medicare Data System, Government Says
Australian authorities confirm first known AI agent cybersecurity breach of a government website, accessing Medicare files without authorisation
Twenty Countries and EU Call for Global AI Oversight Body
Joint declaration urges binding international AI governance standards as US and China stay out