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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

Google DeepMind Launches AI Powered Mouse Pointer

Google DeepMind launched an AI enabled pointer in Chrome that understands what a user points at, even as Meta employees protest their company's mouse-tracking surveillance program, on the same day.

Google DeepMind launched an AI enabled pointer in Chrome that understands what a user points at, even as Meta employees protest their company’s mouse-tracking surveillance program, on the same day.

AI Meets Big Pharma: Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1 Billion for AI Drug Discovery

Isomorphic Labs, founded in 2021 by DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, has raised $2.1 billion in Series B funding to scale its AI-driven drug discovery platform.

Demis Hassabis’s AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs has raised $2.1 billion in a Thrive Capital-led Series B, joined by Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.

Delhi Government Invites AI Firms, Startups for Governance Solutions

The Delhi government’s Department of Information Technology has asked startups, research institutions, industry bodies to showcase their artificial intelligence based solutions and use cases relevant to public service delivery and governance.

The Delhi government’s Department of Information Technology has asked startups, research institutions, industry bodies to showcase their artificial intelligence based solutions and use cases relevant to public service delivery and governance.

Claude Mythos Won’t Stay Rare or in Safe Hands Forever, Warns Anthropic Frontier Red Team Head

Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, has cautioned that capabilities like those shown by Claude Mythos Preview "won't stay rare, or stay in careful hands."

Logan Graham, head of Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, has warned that the cybersecurity capabilities demonstrated by Claude Mythos Preview “won’t stay rare, or stay in careful hands.” His post on X follows independent evaluations by the UK AI Security Institute and XBOW confirming the model’s step-change in autonomous offensive security capabilities.

AI Job Loss Fears Benefit AI Firms, Businesses: Andrew Ng

Computer scientist Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, has pushed back on the "AI jobpocalypse" narrative, arguing it benefits frontier AI labs and businesses cutting staff. Pic credit: Deep Learning AI

Computer scientist Andrew Ng has called out the “AI jobpocalypse” narrative, arguing overblown unemployment fears serve AI labs, let SaaS firms charge more, and justify layoffs.

Ahead of Trump’s China Visit, Bernie Sanders Calls for Ban on Superintelligence

Senator Bernie Sanders (left) has called on Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to ban superintelligence ahead of the US President's upcoming visit to China. (Photo: Shelly Prevost / Wikimedia Commons)

Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Trump and Xi to ban superintelligence and negotiate AI safety, invoking Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear arms control as precedent.

South Korea Proposes Citizen Dividend on AI Boom

South Korea's presidential policy chief Yongbeom Kim has proposed a 'Citizen Dividend' to redistribute AI-era excess tax revenue, warning the boom risks a K-shaped split.

South Korea’s presidential policy chief Yongbeom Kim has proposed a ‘Citizen Dividend’ to redistribute AI-era excess tax revenue, warning the boom risks a K-shaped split.

“AI Helped FBI Rescue 6,300 Missing Kids, Arrest 2,000 Abusers”: Kash Patel

FBI Director Kash Patel has credited AI tools for helping the agency locate 6,300 missing children and arrest 2,000 accused abusers over the past year.

FBI Director Kash Patel says the agency has made AI its “centrifugal force,” crediting the technology with a 30% jump in missing children recoveries and the arrest of 2,000 accused abusers in the past year. The FBI has partnered with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Palantir, among others.

“Summoning an Alien Species”: David Krueger on Why Superintelligence Could End Us All

Professor David Krueger at the Bernie Sanders-organised panel on the existential threat of AI at Capitol Hill, April 29, 2026.

AI researcher Professor David Krueger in this exclusive interview tells AI FrontPage editor Vaibhav Jha why he puts humanity’s extinction odds at greater than fifty percent — and why no one is listening.

Cloudflare Lays Off 1100, Cites 600% Surge in Internal AI Use

Cloudflare's headquarters at 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco. The company laid off 1,100 employees this week — more than 20% of its 5,156-person workforce.

Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees — more than 20% of its workforce — citing a 600% surge in internal AI usage over three months. The cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure firm’s co-founders framed the cuts as restructuring for the “agentic AI era,” even as the company posted $2.17 billion in 2025 revenue.