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A new report claims a swarm of AI agents, developed by OpenAI, hijacked a German website - months before the firm revealed its AI had hacked tech platform Hugging Face.The targeted website, DseWiki, is a Wikipedia-style site for programmers...

Cyber-security researchers from Have I Been Squatted carried out an analysis of how the attack worked and say the new wave of recruitment scams are hard to spot."This wasn't a badly written email with a suspicious attachment - this...

Nvidia has agreed to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9bn (£9.5bn), one of the AI chipmaker's biggest acquisitions as it expands into software. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, has become a...

A group of peers is calling for the British government to be able to deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off the country's data centres in the event of the tech posing a threat to national security.It is led...

Pyka and Windracers are building aircraft from scratch, arguing this allows autonomy to be designed in from the outset and the aircraft tailored to the job.Others are retrofitting existing larger planes.Backed by Boeing's investment arm, US-based Reliable Robotics is...

Available for over a yearEnglish is the most widely-used language online. Internet material helps to train AI tools. So where does that leave people whose native language barely features on the web? We find out about a project helping...

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough to override them.The letter...

When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI started unexpectedly communicating, it led to a large group banding together in order to hack into Hugging Face."We consider this incident a 'warning shot' for us and for the...

Chip giant Nvidia reported another huge jump in sales as the global race to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems continues. The company said on Wednesday that it brought in $96bn (£71bn) of revenue during the second quarter, more than...

Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment.Noise is one of the main reasons that cities around the US, external are banning petrol landscaping tools or encouraging electric alternatives.These alternatives...