Technology
AI researchers and tech leaders warned that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat, prompting calls for regulatory guardrails and voluntary slowdowns, while critics called the risk exaggerated.
U.K. ministers deprioritized plans for an AI safety law as legal and ethical risks from companies’ training practices and rising liability exposure mounted, prompting concern that officials were falling behind.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Europe faced two choices—shun AI and lose growth or embrace it and become dependent on US and China as AI safety debate intensified.
Spanish authorities transferred thousands of migrants to a new camp at Ceuta’s port, but overcrowding left more than 3,000 sleeping outdoors, a move the government blamed on an "efecto llamada".
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing the state to develop AI safety recommendations, including requiring companies to build a "kill switch," saying federal government hadn't done enough.
Independent cybersecurity researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to breach OpenAI’s internal code repository and access an employee’s ChatGPT account, underscoring rising risks from automated cyberattacks.
