California orders frontier AI firms to build a kill switch and host auditors as AI leaders urge a slowdown and the US and China discuss AI alerts.
President Trump signed a new executive order on artificial intelligence on 2 June 2026. The order is titled "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security." It focuses on cybersecurity and national security rather than privacy or consumer protection.
Learn about the alarming prevalence of fertility misinformation on social media platforms as revealed by Women's Health World research.
The World Wide Web Foundation is closing after 16 years of promoting an open and secure web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has announced.
Warning: if you want some time out from annoying work calls, the excuse ‘I didn’t have any signal’ is increasingly implausible. It’s been announced by the GSMA, the body that unifies the global mobile ecosystem, that 95 per cent of the world’s population now has...
Over the last couple of years, every aspect of our lives has been shoved into a large washing machine set to maximum spin. Where, how and when many of us work has evolved dramatically and it looks as though many of the changes are here to stay.Even though COVID...
