4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (862+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:30pm When university lecturer Luke Rowe decided to replace his recorded online lecture with an AI-generated avatar of himself, he expected his students would notice immediately that something amiss. Instead, most were unable to initially differentiate between the real recording…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (762+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:00pm It’s been a ridiculous week for artificial intelligence. On Monday, OpenAI reported an incident to the European Commission in which its agents hijacked a German website and turned it into a message board for other agents. On Tuesday, Anthropic…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (1074+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:58am Could the US artificial intelligence industry heed the call from the leaders of three of its leading companies to slow development of AI? The problem for them, the rest of the sector and financial markets is that the entire…...

14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (857+ words) September 14, 2026 — 5:00am Artificial intelligence researchers are not only racing to develop super-intelligent models, they’re also vying to out-do each other in making ever more apocalyptic predictions. But do all these warnings about the dangers of AI from big AI firms and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (40+ words) smh.com.au Tech leaders are calling for an urgent global slowdown on artificial intelligence and warning self-training AI is evolving faster than safety guard rails can handle. September 13, 2026 — 6:43pm...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (675+ words) September 13, 2026 — 2:48pm Australia’s assistant technology minister has called the behaviour of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents “unquestionably dangerous” after a private briefing from one of the independent investigators looking into a hacking incident in July. Andrew Charlton, assistant minister for science, technology…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1178+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:18am Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms say it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced – and most lucrative – models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic PBC chief executive officer Dario Amodei issued a…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (415+ words) September 11, 2026 — 5:00am There is no written rule for a starting time at our work, but most of us start at 9am. Two of my colleagues sometimes come into the office after that time. Recently, I’ve noticed a growing number of other colleagues…...