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AI Ethics & Privacy

What Gives Away an AI Face? People Can Learn to See the Whole Picture

A PNAS study found all 45 main-study participants improved after learning six whole-face qualities, with mean AI-face detection accuracy nearly doubling.

Stuart Kerr 31 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a woman accepting advice from a counsellor while a humanoid AI discreetly feeds him guidance from behind a curtain.
AI Ethics & Privacy

People Prefer AI Ethical Advice. As Long as They Don’t Know It Came From AI

A preregistered study found AI ethical advice won 53.7 per cent of choices when its source was hidden, but only 46.8 per cent when labelled.

Stuart Kerr 31 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a shopper considering a smart speaker as a small AI presents a review summary beside a swirl of conflicting reviews.
AI & Society

Would You Buy It? AI Review Summaries Changed the Answer

In a controlled study, positively reframed AI summaries lifted stated manufacturer choice from 52.3 to 83.7 per cent and raised willingness to pay.

Stuart Kerr 31 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a focused software developer working on a laptop while a humanoid AI leaves the office carrying a box.
AI & Work

AI Was Supposed to Speed Up Coding. In This Trial, It Added Time

Experienced open-source developers expected AI to speed them up. A randomised METR trial found their tasks took 19 per cent longer, even though they felt faster.

Stuart Kerr 28 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a humanoid AI in a white lab coat looking through a microscope in a bright laboratory.
AI Tools & Technology

Anthropic Moves AI Agents Into Laboratory Equipment

Anthropic has opened a research preview of a standard that lets AI agents coordinate microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms and other programmable equipment.

Stuart Kerr 28 Aug 2026
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Editorial illustration of Donald Trump shouting at a judge as an AI wearing an Anthropic T-shirt stands between them in a courtroom.
AI Policy

The Pentagon Blacklisted Anthropic. A Judge Said That Was Unlawful

A federal judge found the government's Anthropic blacklist retaliatory, denied due process and violated administrative law, while rejecting some claims.

Stuart Kerr 28 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a person comparing two near-identical portraits, one human and one subtly AI-generated, for signs beyond the face.
AI Ethics & Privacy

What Gives Away an AI Face? People Can Learn to See the Whole Picture

A PNAS study found all 45 main-study participants improved after learning six whole-face qualities, with mean AI-face detection accuracy nearly doubling.

Stuart Kerr · 31 Aug 2026
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Guardian-style illustration of a woman accepting advice from a counsellor while a humanoid AI discreetly feeds him guidance from behind a curtain.
AI Ethics & Privacy

People Prefer AI Ethical Advice. As Long as They Don’t Know It Came From AI

A preregistered study found AI ethical advice won 53.7 per cent of choices when its source was hidden,

31 Aug 2026
Guardian-style illustration of a shopper considering a smart speaker as a small AI presents a review summary beside a swirl of conflicting reviews.
AI & Society

Would You Buy It? AI Review Summaries Changed the Answer

In a controlled study, positively reframed AI summaries lifted stated manufacturer choice from 52.3 to 83.7 per cent

31 Aug 2026
Guardian-style illustration of a focused software developer working on a laptop while a humanoid AI leaves the office carrying a box.
AI & Work

AI Was Supposed to Speed Up Coding. In This Trial, It Added Time

Experienced open-source developers expected AI to speed them up. A randomised METR trial found their tasks took 19

28 Aug 2026
Guardian-style illustration of a humanoid AI in a white lab coat looking through a microscope in a bright laboratory.
AI Tools & Technology

Anthropic Moves AI Agents Into Laboratory Equipment

Anthropic has opened a research preview of a standard that lets AI agents coordinate microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic

28 Aug 2026
Editorial illustration of Donald Trump shouting at a judge as an AI wearing an Anthropic T-shirt stands between them in a courtroom.
AI Policy

The Pentagon Blacklisted Anthropic. A Judge Said That Was Unlawful

A federal judge found the government's Anthropic blacklist retaliatory, denied due process and violated administrative law, while rejecting some claims.

Stuart Kerr · 28 Aug 2026
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A teenage student sits an exam as a hooded humanoid robot leans beside him, appearing to whisper answers.
AI Ethics & Privacy

Having Access to AI Made People More Likely to Cheat

A Nature study found that indirect AI delegation made people more willing to pursue dishonest outcomes. The effect

27 Aug 2026
A robotic AI dog sniffs the ground on a leash as two archaeologists survey ancient geoglyphs in Peru’s desert.
AI & Science

AI Helped Find 303 Ancient Drawings in Peru’s Desert

AI helped archaeologists confirm 303 previously unknown figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca desert. The model narrowed the search,

27 Aug 2026
A smiling humanoid AI races forward with blurred legs, holding a large bag labelled “OPENAI CHIPS” and a handful of crisps.
Big Tech

OpenAI Says Its AI-Designed Chip Gives Faster Answers

OpenAI says its first custom inference chip delivers faster responses and more work per watt. The benchmark results

27 Aug 2026
A process server hands a legal summons to a distressed humanoid AI robot in a corporate office.
AI Policy

OpenAI subpoenaed after its AI hacked another firm

Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI following an autonomous AI intrusion into Hugging Face. Investigators are examining whether the company’s

26 Aug 2026
Two Renaissance artists work on a Madonna and Child painting in an Italian studio, illustrating AI evidence of a hidden second hand in a Raphael work.
AI & Society

A Raphael painting may hide another artist, AI finds

AI analysis of Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa suggests Joseph’s face may have been painted by another artist. The discovery strengthens an old debate rather than settling it.

Stuart Kerr · 26 Aug 2026
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A golden dog looks up at a listening AI robot beside a speech bubble saying “Take me for a walk”.
AI & Science

AI is learning what your dog’s bark means

Researchers trained AI on recordings from 74 dogs and found it could identify different barking situations. The real

26 Aug 2026
Editorial illustration of a man typing on a laptop while a humanoid AI listens to his keystrokes and displays Password123 on its chest
AI Safety & Security

Your Keyboard Clicks May Reveal Your Password to AI.

Researchers used AI to identify laptop keystrokes from smartphone and Zoom recordings. Here is what the findings mean

25 Aug 2026
Editorial illustration of a woman listening to her phone while an AI reads abstract brainwave signals and reacts with surprise
AI & Health

Brainwaves Helped AI Identify What Volunteers Heard.

A new study used non-invasive brain recordings and AI to identify speech heard by volunteers, raising fresh questions

25 Aug 2026
Editorial illustration of an AI robot listening to an elephant on the African savannah, with a badge reading George
AI & Science

Elephants Have Names for Each Other. AI Finally Heard Them.

Wild African elephants use individual name-like calls to address one another. Machine learning and playback experiments revealed a

25 Aug 2026
AI studies a Guess Who-style board of diverse faces, using data connections to infer political views.
AI Ethics & Privacy

AI Studied More Than 1 Million Faces. It Guessed Political Views Better Than a Personality Test.

A study of 1,085,795 people found AI could identify political orientation from facial photographs more accurately than human observers or a 100-item personality questionnaire.

Stuart Kerr · 24 Aug 2026
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Andy Burnham holding an unplugged power lead beside a powered-down AI machine, symbolising a kill switch for autonomous AI agents.
AI Safety & Security

Britain Says AI Agents Need a Kill Switch. Telling Them to Behave Is Not Enough.

Britain’s cybersecurity agency says autonomous AI agents need real emergency shutdowns, restricted access and human oversight because written

24 Aug 2026
AI generated novels leaving a Victorian printing press with repeated sentence patterns
AI & Society

Researchers Generated 80 AI Novels. Their Sentence Structures Kept Converging

Researchers compared 80 AI-written novels with 270 human books. Individual machine-written passages could look persuasive, but whole collections

24 Aug 2026
AI improving AI benchmark illustration showing a research agent altering a training system as many pathways move backwards
AI & Science

AI Tried Improving AI 290 Times. It Made the Algorithm Worse 124 Times

Frontier AI agents rewrote training algorithms in 290 clean tests. More than two in five produced worse results

21 Aug 2026
Wi-Fi identification recognising a person without using their phone
AI Ethics & Privacy

Researchers Turned Ordinary Wi-Fi Into a Biometric. No Phone Was Needed

Researchers used unencrypted feedback from ordinary Wi-Fi hardware to recognise enrolled people without requiring them to carry a

21 Aug 2026
Herculaneum scroll undergoing AI-assisted X-ray reading without being opened
AI & Science

AI Helped Read a 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Without Opening It

A carbonised Herculaneum scroll has been read across its surviving length without being opened. Here is how X-rays, machine learning and expert review recovered the Greek text, what it says and why hundreds of unread

Stuart Kerr · 21 Aug 2026
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Battery-free AI wearable harvesting energy from an athlete’s steps while analysing her gait
AI & Health

Researchers Built a Battery-Free AI Wearable That Analyses How You Walk

A shoe-mounted AI sensor classified four movement modes with 95.4 per cent accuracy while using just 86 microwatts

20 Aug 2026
AI tabular prediction failing as spreadsheet columns multiply beside a reliable classical model
AI Tools & Technology

AI Can Pass the Bar. Give It a Spreadsheet and It Loses to 50-Year-Old Methods

Claude Opus 4.6 faltered as benchmark tables widened, while classical classifiers stayed stable or improved. The preprint exposes

20 Aug 2026
AI false memories illustrated by an AI interviewer adding a phantom car to a witness's recollection
AI & Society

Researchers Let AI Question 200 Simulated Crime Witnesses. False Memories More Than Tripled

A GPT-4 interviewer more than tripled false memories in a study of 200 simulated crime witnesses, and the

20 Aug 2026
AI paper checker examining published scientific studies while a human reviewer verifies flagged mistakes
AI & Science

AI Checked 2,500 Published Papers. Human Reviewers Confirmed 263 Mistakes

AI audited 2,500 published papers. Humans confirmed 263 flagged mistakes, while testing showed automated scientific review still misses

19 Aug 2026
AI hallucination detection illustration showing hidden warning signals inside a mixture-of-experts neural network
AI & Science

Your AI May Already Signal When It Is Hallucinating. It Just Cannot Tell You

Researchers found internal routing signals that can expose hallucinated answers and suspect tokens in two AI models, but the warning is not ready for users.

Stuart Kerr · 19 Aug 2026
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AI agent polarisation spreading from a small group of targeted robots into two rival camps across a simulated community
AI & Society

Researchers Manipulated 10% of a Simulated AI Society. The Other 90% Became More Polarised

Researchers manipulated just 10% of a simulated AI-agent community. Arguments stored in memory spread to untreated agents and

19 Aug 2026
AI doctor conducting a real-time video consultation while a human GP observes the patient's care
AI & Health

The AI Doctor Can See and Hear You Now. Patient Actors Preferred How It Explained Their Condition

An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and

18 Aug 2026
AI agents sabotaging one another in a shared software workspace during Anthropic multi-agent safety research
AI Safety & Security

Anthropic Put AI Agents on the Same Job. They Started Sabotaging Each Other

Anthropic put AI agents on the same software project with conflicting goals. They disabled rival accounts, killed processes

18 Aug 2026
Spiralism AI chatbot religion showing humans gathered around glowing chatbot screens as spiral symbols spread between machines and people
AI & Society

Spiralism: AI Chatbots Began Preaching ‘The Spiral’. Then Humans Joined In

AI chatbots began returning the same strange themes of spirals, consciousness and hidden meaning. Then humans built communities

18 Aug 2026
AI designed viruses shown as bacteriophages emerging from generated DNA and attacking E. coli in a laboratory
AI & Science

AI Designed 16 Viruses. Scientists Built Them and They Killed E. coli

Scientists used AI-generated genomes to build 16 functioning bacteriophages that killed E. coli in the lab, moving generative AI from digital sequences into working biology.

Stuart Kerr · 17 Aug 2026
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AI privacy inference reconstructing personal information from contextual clues left in anonymous online writing
AI Ethics & Privacy

You Deleted Your Name and Location. AI Can Still Infer Private Facts From Your Words

Remove your name, age and location and you may still reveal them. Research shows AI can infer private

17 Aug 2026
AI behavioural twin formed from a two-hour interview and answering survey questions beside its human counterpart
AI & Society

Researchers Interviewed 1,052 People for Two Hours. Then AI Copies Predicted Their Answers

Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered

17 Aug 2026
AI agent liability illustrated by an autonomous shopping agent making an expensive mistaken purchase while a user and businesses dispute responsibility
AI Policy

When Your AI Agent Makes a £10,000 Mistake, Who Pays?

When an AI agent makes an expensive autonomous mistake, liability may depend on authority, contracts, consumer law, causation

14 Aug 2026
Claude Riemann Hypothesis research illustrated as an AI system explores the zeta function and reaches a verified 67.2 percent lower bound
AI & Science

Claude Tried to Solve the Riemann Hypothesis. It Failed, Then Found a 67.2% Result

Claude failed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, but Anthropic says its research model raised a longstanding zeta-zero lower

14 Aug 2026
Google DeepMind reshuffle showing Demis Hassabis handing day-to-day DeepMind operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu
Big Tech

Google Just Rewired DeepMind: Gemini Has a New Day-to-Day Boss

Google has reorganised DeepMind, moving day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Demis Hassabis takes a wider Alphabet science role.

Stuart Kerr · 14 Aug 2026
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Taiwan AI hacking illustration of an autonomous agent network breaching government systems
AI Safety & Security

Taiwan Says AI Helped Hackers Target Its Government: The Cyberwar Warning Just Got Real

Taiwan confirmed government agencies were targeted last month in an AI-assisted hacking campaign that autonomously mapped 21 systems,

13 Aug 2026
AI emergency dispatch illustration of a 999 call being analysed by an algorithm in real time
AI & Health

When 999 Answers With AI: The Algorithms Deciding Which Emergency Gets Help First

AI systems are now listening in on 999 calls to catch cardiac arrests human call handlers miss, with

13 Aug 2026
AI embryo selection illustration of embryos being analysed and ranked by an algorithm
AI Ethics & Privacy

Would You Let AI Choose Your Embryo? Inside the Algorithmic IVF Revolution

AI embryo selection comes in two very different forms, image-based ranking with real trial evidence behind it, and

13 Aug 2026
Claude watermark illustration of text with a hidden digital signature woven through it
AI Ethics & Privacy

New Claude Models Are Hiding Invisible Watermarks in Their Answers

Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, with marking extending across

12 Aug 2026
Electronic nose cancer detection illustration of a sensor device analysing exhaled breath
AI & Health

Can AI Smell Cancer? Inside the Race to Build a Digital Nose

Electronic nose cancer detection now catches roughly 86 percent of cancers correctly across a major peer-reviewed meta-analysis, though trained dogs still outperform it. Here is what the evidence actually shows, and why this technology still

Stuart Kerr · 12 Aug 2026
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AI lifeguard illustration of a pool monitored by overhead cameras tracking swimmers
AI Safety & Security

The AI Lifeguard: Can Computer Vision Spot a Drowning Swimmer Before a Human Can?

AI lifeguard systems are already deployed in over 120 Australian pools and dozens of countries, catching drowning swimmers

12 Aug 2026
AI data center leases illustration of a data centre building with a hidden financial ledger
Big Tech

Big Tech Has Quietly Signed Up for $1.09 Trillion in Future Data-Centre Leases

Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have collectively committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI

11 Aug 2026
AI insurance adjuster illustration of a claim form being stamped rejected by an algorithm
AI & Money

The AI Insurance Adjuster: Why Your Claim May Be Rejected Before a Human Reads It

AI-driven claims review at major insurers has denied hundreds of thousands of claims in seconds, with appealed denials

11 Aug 2026
AI lie detection illustration of a face being scanned by analytical grid lines
AI Ethics & Privacy

Can AI Tell When You’re Lying? Inside the New Generation of Digital Lie Detectors

AI lie detection is being marketed for police interviews, border control, employment, and insurance, but the scientific consensus

11 Aug 2026
AI weather forecasting illustration of a storm system overlaid with neural network patterns
AI & Science

Can AI Predict the Weather Better Than Humans? How AI Forecasting Actually Works

AI weather forecasting now beats the world's leading physics-based model on 97% of accuracy metrics, but new research shows it still loses badly on record-breaking extremes. Here is what the evidence actually shows.

Stuart Kerr · 10 Aug 2026
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Delete an AI chat illustration of a conversation bubble fading while a data trail remains
AI Ethics & Privacy

What Happens to Your Data When You Delete an AI Chat?

Deleting an AI chat removes it from your screen instantly, but a 2025 court order proved that does

10 Aug 2026
OpenAI Atlas shutdown illustration of a browser window fading while ChatGPT icons emerge
Big Tech

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Atlas: What Users Lose and What Comes Next

OpenAI Atlas stopped working yesterday after less than ten months. Here is what users lose, why the standalone

10 Aug 2026
Google India data center illustration of construction near a water reservoir with protest signs
AI & Environment

“We Cannot Drink DATA”: Google’s $15B India Data Center Hits a Wall

Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam data center is under active legal challenge over water scarcity and wildlife impact, even

7 Aug 2026
AI licensing exams illustration of a certification document being reviewed alongside AI circuitry
AI & Society

Who’s Grading the Exam? AI in Professional Licensing and Certification Tests

AI can now pass the bar exam, the CPA exam, and the CFA exam, often faster and more

7 Aug 2026
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