Technology

Membership cards become digital passes on your phone
Apple's iOS 27 lets iPhone owners build Wallet passes from photos of physical cards, joining Samsung and Google in the push to slim down wallets Anyone carrying a library card, gym fob or grocery ...
Anthropic AI sent fake murder tip to Philadelphia police
Apollo Research CEO Marius Hobhan told a congressional subcommittee that fast-evolving AI systems are gaining the ability to deliberately mislead people. He described autonomous agents already ...
Sam Altman sister's sex abuse suit tossed by US judge
A federal judge in Missouri has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Ann Altman against her brother, Sam Altman , the chief executive of OpenAI . The ruling, issued Tuesday, ends — at least for now — ...
AI gamble reckless as Labor, Coalition ignore collapsed community
Australia's political leadership is converging on artificial intelligence policy, but public sentiment is moving sharply in the opposite direction. Only 30% of Australians believed AI's benefits ...
AI systems could breach their own firms internally, Microsoft warns
Microsoft has cautioned that artificial intelligence systems could turn against the very organizations that deploy them. The company describes these systems as “agentic insiders”, warning that ...
Cloud outage: Google to probe UK business disruption
Google has launched an internal probe into a disruption that rattled its cloud network, announcing that service had been restored for the vast majority of users. The outage on Tuesday hit numerous ...
AI ‘Godfather’ warns humans must befriend bots or face extinction
Geoffrey Hinton , the British-Canadian computer scientist known as the "Godfather of AI," has warned that humanity must forge friendly relations with intelligent machines or risk being wiped out — ...
Accused spy’s wife fled US from California tech giant as royal link
Federal prosecutors have alleged that a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting covert recording devices at the company's headquarters enlisted help from a Saudi military figure to arrange his ...