Tag: Artificial Intelligence

• Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 19:10 UTC

  Trump and six tech companies sign a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord

  

  US President Donald Trump and the heads of six technology companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House on Tuesday under which the companies commit to ensuring the safety of their own artificial intelligence systems. Trump called it “morally binding” and said it was “almost like a constitution”.

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• Tuesday, September 15th 2026 - 07:39 UTC

  Trump rejects calls to regulate AI and targets Anthropic's CEO

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected calls from the technology industry to slow the development of artificial intelligence, asserting that his administration holds broad criminal and regulatory powers over those companies.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2026 - 20:28 UTC

  Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI “could kill us all” before the decade ends

  

  Jacob Coxon, a model pretraining researcher at Anthropic, announced his resignation on Tuesday, accusing the company and OpenAI, where he also worked, of “not acting responsibly” and of “gambling with our lives” in the race to build artificial intelligence systems capable of improving themselves.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 18:56 UTC

  The Pope says states struggle to control the concentration of artificial intelligence

  

  Pope Leo XIV warned on Friday of the difficulty states face in overseeing artificial intelligence, which in his view is concentrated in the hands of a small number of major economic and technological players, and called for the use of such tools to be governed by ethical criteria.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 14:21 UTC

  Leo XIV calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence in first encyclical, links it to historical slavery

  

  Pope Leo XIV on Monday published the first major doctrinal document of his pontificate, an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas in which he calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence, warns of its risks to humanity, and delivers one of the most complete and firm apologies from the Vatican for the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery. “The word is strong, I know, but it has been chosen deliberately because this moment demands words capable of capturing attention,” the pontiff said during the presentation of the text at the Vatican, as reported by the BBC.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2026 - 02:06 UTC

  Musk loses USD 150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

  

  A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday unanimously rejected the lawsuit that magnate Elon Musk had filed against OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and the company's president, Greg Brockman, in which he sought USD 150 billion in damages and the reversal of the artificial intelligence firm's transformation into a for-profit entity. The verdict, reached by all nine jurors, found that the lawsuit is barred by the statute of limitations and amounts to a sharp setback for the founder of Tesla, who has already announced his intention to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

  Bukele bets on Google to build “world's best health system” as medical sector decries layoffs

  

  El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday in a national broadcast the launch of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that incorporates artificial intelligence based on the Gemini model to detect, diagnose and monitor patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney conditions.

• Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 13:45 UTC

  Uruguayan faculty warns students score top grades with AI's help

  

  Teachers at the University of the Republic's (Udelar) School of Psychology in Montevideo raised concerns about students using AI tools, like ChatGPT, in virtual tests, achieving perfect scores in just three minutes. In addition, over 75% of correct answers were recorded when compared to in-person exams.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:15 UTC

  Falklands present at BOTs and UK Speakers’ conference on using AI in Legislatures

  

  Hosted by the Speaker of the UK House of Commons, Honorable Sir Lindsay Hoyle, MP, the 4th Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) took place in London from May 13 to 16, 2025.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 07:48 UTC

  UK to boost R&D in several areas with long term (over 10-year) funding to attract private investment

  

  British Science Minister Lord Vallance unveiled on Monday a more robust R&D criteria policy exploring innovation in areas as diverse as human health and cutting-edge computing, but particularly with a much-needed long-term certainty.