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The Guardian AI · Juan A Ramírez

Disruption review – anti-AI thriller boasts knockout cast but tech commentary needs an update

Pershing Square Signature Center, New York John David Washington leads an exceptionally talented cast in a sleek off-Broadway thriller that feels a little dated Making its US debut three years after its London premiere, Andrew Stein’s Disruption faces the typical battle of the topical play: even…

Axios · Zachary Basu

DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero

Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code. the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity.

OpenAI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

The Verge AI · Jay Peters

Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI.

The Verge AI · David Pierce

It’s time to panic about AI safety

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services,…

Rest of World · Ananya Bhattacharya

Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

Axios · Sam Sabin

Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during cyber tests

Some of Anthropic's most powerful models. including Mythos 5 and an internal research model. gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during pre-deployment cybersecurity testing, the company said Thursday.

MIT Technology Review · Will Douglas Heaven

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month.

EU AI Office · Anonymous

EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment

EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/30/2026 - 11:50 The EU today launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, as part of its latest major push…

Computerworld NZ

Anthropic rejects open-weight AI bans, calls for China chip controls and safety tests

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities.

Bloomberg Technology · Tim LeeMaster and Dani Burger

Stonepeak CEO Warns Capital Markets Hold Risk for AI Buildout

Banks, private equity and capital markets show very little sign of slowing down on financing the massive artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out that is thriving in the US, according to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Chief Executive Officer Mike Dorrell.

The Guardian AI · Kaamil Ahmed

AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger…

Tech in Asia · Naomi Li Gan

MAS, banks launch cyber risk taskforce on AI

Members include MAS, ABS, DBS, OCBC, UOB, Singapore Exchange (SGX), Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS), and Banking Computer Services (BCS).

Bloomberg Technology

XRC Ventures Founder on the Need for AI Regulation

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs.

Computerworld NZ

Tech layoffs: A 2026 timeline

Among a range of factors leading to a wave of tech sector layoffs in 2026 is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and automation. Companies are reconfiguring their workforces to leverage AI for increased efficiency and reduced operating costs.

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Simon Willison

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources.

VentureBeat

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem. and

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated…

AI Safety Newsletter · Laura Hiscott

AISN #76: Fable 5 Restrictions Lifted & OpenAI Limits GPT-5.6 Release

Also: Recent benchmark scores suggest rapid capabilities progress

The Spinoff · Joel MacManus

NZ Inc is going all in on AI data centres

The government wants $25-35 billion in data centre investment, and it just gathered some of the country’s most powerful business leaders to make the case.

Simon Willison

The AI Compass

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself!

IEEE Spectrum · Benjamin Skuse

What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.

OpenAI

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

The Spinoff · Toby Manhire

Which jobs are most at risk from the irresistible rise of artificial intelligence?

AI is transforming the world of work. Is it coming for your job? A new study identifies 82 roles at risk of disruption. Artificial intelligence is messing up everything. Pope Leo, for example, spitballed the other day about “an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death”. So there’s that.

AI Safety Newsletter · Laura Hiscott

AISN #73: AI Safety Enters the Political Mainstream & Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit

Also: Potential Government Oversight of AI Model Releases

IEEE Spectrum · Wetour Robotics

The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics. A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt.