Greater government control over artificial intelligence in Canada could allow increased surveillance of users and discourage people from speaking freely in private interactions with AI systems, according to a Canadian rights advocacy group.
Increased state involvement in AI systems could also lead to routine government access to private conversations and data, according to a May 5 report by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
Amazon has become the first retailer in the UK to start a drone delivery service with a limited launch in Darlington, County Durham.
Packages weighing less than 5lb (2.2kg) and containing everyday items such as beauty products, batteries and cables are now being delivered within a 7.5 mile (12km) radius of Amazon’s fulfilment centre.
The tech giant is convinced there is demand for ultra-fast deliveries and hopes to slowly expand the service.
David Brooks recently described the skeptical attitude toward romantic relationships, particularly among younger Americans, as “the Great Detachment.” Brooks views our collective renunciation of binding romantic ties as the logical development of a culture that worships the self, prizing individual autonomy above all else. For Brooks, the modern self chiefly exerts its autonomy through the pursuit of professional success. But while the self may be freer and lighter than ever before in terms of obligations to others, Brooks sees it as rootless, friendless, and partnerless.
Giorgia Meloni has reposted a fake, AI-generated photo of herself dressed in lingerie that has circulated on social media, warning her followers not to trust “dangerous” images they see online.
“There are numerous fake photos of me circulating these days, generated with artificial intelligence and passed off as real by some diligent opponent,” she wrote on X.
Girano in questi giorni diverse mie foto false, generate con l’intelligenza artificiale e spacciate per vere da qualche solerte oppositore.
Devo riconoscere che chi le ha realizzate, almeno nel caso in allegato, mi ha anche migliorata parecchio. Ma resta il fatto che, pur di… pic.twitter.com/or44qru2qj
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) May 5, 2026
The battlefield in Ukraine could soon feature more robot than human soldiers – that is the startling claim made by a Ukrainian-British military start-up.
The BBC visited UFORCE at its London premises, which are unbranded and discreet, a measure the company says is intended to protect it from potential Russian sabotage.
I wanted to know more about the company because of its involvement in what Ukraine says was an unprecedented military operation: enemy territory being seized using only robots and drones.
Drone warfare has now reached a stage where even soldiers have lost hope of escaping! Every strike in this video will make your body shiver. Watch how death descends from the sky! pic.twitter.com/IjLShMVIQ3
— TRISHUL (@TrishulxIN) April 29, 2026
In 2008, on The Price Is Right, retired meteorologist Terry Kniess gave exactly the correct answer – right down to the dollar! – on two grand prizes. Everyone assumed he had cheated, but he said he hadn’t – instead, he memorized the show’s predictable set of prices.
That mind-blowing feat couldn’t happen today. Companies have made it almost impossible to know when the price is “right,” thanks to endless data collection that changes how much things cost across both time and place. Businesses now commonly use computational systems to track behaviour and traits to figure out what consumers might tolerate paying, to extract the maximum possible amount of money from them. This goes by many names: Algorithmic, personalized, surveillant, or even “snitch” pricing (though some economists see it as the holy grail of market efficiency, since everyone is paying what they are willing to pay). Some companies even claim, weakly, that this data collection helps them to deliver personalized and optimized discounts. But no matter what you call it, the result is discriminatory – even as this variance becomes a dominant feature of the modern economy.
The latest (dumb) idea floating around to protect actors from AI is something called the Tilly Tax, or a tax that tries to remove the incentive of choosing an AI-generated actor over a human actor.
Over at Forbes, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, an AI scientist, has written a truly superb article that looks at this tax scheme from all angles. Unlike most of the analysis you see about AI vs. Hollywood, Eliot’s write-up is informed, comprehensive, and loaded with the kind of context the entertainment media are afraid to highlight.
Good read … Hollywood’s New Math Favors AI Actors Over Human Actors And Taxing Won’t Stop The Rise Of Synthetic Movie Stars
Families of seven victims of a mass shooting at a secondary school in British Columbia are suing OpenAI and the company’s CEO for negligence after it failed to alert authorities to the shooter’s troubling conversations with ChatGPT.
The lawsuits, filed on Wednesday in a federal court in San Francisco, allege that the violent intentions of the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, were well-known to OpenAI. Employees at the company flagged the shooter’s account eight months before the attack and determined that it posed “a credible and specific threat of gun violence against real people”, according to the lawsuit.
Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of OpenAI, has formally apologized for his company’s role in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
The apology was requested by B.C. Premier David Eby, who met with Mr. Altman and Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka last month to discuss the Feb. 10 shooting that left nine people, including the shooter, dead.
Award-winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz is embracing AI and predicts that “in two years from now nobody will care” if actors are real or AI.
Kassovitz arrived on the scene as a respected international filmmaker 30 years ago with his 1995 masterpiece La Haine, a critical and financial hit that won him the Best Director prize at that year’s Cannes Film Festival.
So long as the AI creations refrain from calling me a racist because I didn’t vote as instructed I won’t care.
Prosecutors in Florida have launched a criminal investigation into ChatGPT because of claims that the AI bot helped an alleged killer prepare for a mass shooting.
James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, said state officials were demanding answers from OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, which allegedly offered “significant advice” to a gunman who left two people dead at Florida State University in April 2025.
“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Mr Uthmeier said. “This criminal investigation will determine whether OpenAI bears criminal responsibility for ChatGPT’s actions in the shooting at Florida State University last year.”
Anthropic is investigating a claim that a small group of people gained access to its Claude Mythos model – the cyber-security tool which the AI firm says is too powerful to release to the public.
“We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments,” the company said in a statement.
It was in response to a Bloomberg report that users in a private forum managed to access the model without the normal permissions.
There is deep unease about Mythos’ capabilities – though the UK’s top cyber official has said advanced AI tools could be a “net positive” if the technology was secured from misuse.
MI5 is racing to bolster the defences of Britain’s most critical companies against the hacking threat posed by a powerful new wave of AI.
Experts at the Security Service have been in contact with energy, water and communications companies to warn them about Mythos, an AI tool that has been deemed by its developer Anthropic to be too dangerous for general release.
A source said: “They [MI5] have been asking critical companies to be fully aware of the threat. They are making those responsible aware that the threat has evolved.”
Companies which own Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) include National Grid, BT, water companies and the nuclear power giant EDF. MI5 is responsible for protecting their security.
As you know, I’m finishing up the Weimar America book. In this last chapter, which I writing this weekend, I’m trying to figure out What It All Means, and what we should or could do about it. My conclusion — and I didn’t expect to get here when I started — is that while we may see some version of Hitler 2.0 or Stalin 2.0, the neo-Caesar we are likely to get will have something to do with AI. I’m explaining why in this final chapter — but I’m writing you on a Saturday to share with you this brilliant Bill Maher dialogue about AI’s dangers, which aired last night. It’s about ten minutes long, and well worth watching…
The accidental leak of news about an all-powerful hacking bot will have done little to calm the fears of AI doom-mongers.
Days before the official announcement of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, reporters from Fortune magazine uncovered an online datastore of unprotected files belonging to the tech company, including a draft blog revealing the existence of the new AI.
Since the botched reveal earlier this month – blamed on “human error” – industry leaders and government experts have been sounding the alarm over the powerful bot.
