I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
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Your AI chatbot may be polite, helpful — and terrible at keeping your secrets. A new study accepted at ICML 2026 pressure-tested 24 of the world’s leading AI models through 904 adversarial conversations and found that 17 of them fail to protect user privacy when pushed.
Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.
For the first time in its history, the United Nations has convened all 193 member states to answer one question: who governs AI? Opening the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Secretary-General António Guterres put children at the centre of the answer — demanding that AI companies prove their systems are safe before a single child can access them, and warning that “the algorithm did it” can never be an acceptable answer when a child is harmed.
A key supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for NVIDIA’s AI accelerators, SK hynix plans to use the proceeds primarily for new semiconductor production facilities and advanced manufacturing equipment in South Korea as it expands its AI infrastructure capabilities.
The AI triage tool in NHS app is part of £10 billion funding received by NHS to digitalize healthcare system.
The world’s premier machine learning conference opens in Seoul with record-breaking numbers — 23,918 paper submissions, more than double last year — and an unprecedented experiment: formal rules on whether AI can help review AI research, enforced by watermarks hidden inside the papers themselves.
According to the survey by UNICEF, which is based on data from 10 countries, at least 20 million children have used AI and many are outpacing adults by adopting it at rates more than three times faster.
HCLTech has signed an AI-led contract worth an estimated $1.14 billion with a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company, one of the Indian IT major’s biggest deals in recent years.
Backed by an investment of $2.5 billion the company will provide a unique combination of skills inclusive of deep industry knowledge, change management and continuous improvement experience, and enterprise-grade AI engineering expertise.
The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”