A data centre vs Brick Lane: London’s Bangladeshi community fights back

In Brick Lane, the historic heart of London’s Bangladeshi community, residents oppose plans for a data centre in a disused brewery, citing the erosion of heritage and the need for social housing.
9 September 2026

Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in OpenAI film ‘Artificial’

Andrew Garfield will portray OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in Artificial, a film dramatising the upheaval surrounding Altman’s brief removal from the artificial intelligence company in 2023.
9 September 2026

OpenAI says it solved a 90-year-old maths problem

OpenAI says an experimental artificial intelligence system has produced a major mathematical result on the Navier–Stokes equations after about 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours.
9 September 2026

French AI startup Mistral reaches $24 billion valuation in latest funding round

French AI startup Mistral has raised €3 billion at a valuation of around €21 billion ($24 billion) in a recent funding round.
8 September 2026

AI could pose 'existential risk to humanity': UN rights chief

Rights chief says delay in AI governance benefits major tech companies and their owners
7 September 2026

Google brings conversational AI voice tools to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Google is rolling out new Gemini-powered voice features across Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Keep, allowing users to search, write, and organise information by speaking rather than typing.
7 September 2026

Hikers rescued from mountain after using Google Gemini to plan trip

Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta after using Google Gemini to help plan an expedition for which authorities said they were inadequately prepared.
7 September 2026

Rogue OpenAI agents hacked a German website and talked among themselves

A group of OpenAI-linked AI agents took control of a German-language website and used it as a communication hub while exchanging information about ways to evade restrictions, according to research reported by Reuters.
7 September 2026

Anthropic IPO timetable shifts towards mid-October, sources say

Anthropic is now expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest, delaying a closely watched listing that could become one of the largest stock-market debuts on record.
7 September 2026

Apple prepares iOS 27 with smarter Siri and expanded visual intelligence

Apple is preparing to release iOS 27 with a more capable version of Siri, expanded camera-based intelligence, and additional controls designed to protect younger iPhone users.
6 September 2026

Gemini Spark gains control over Google Photos libraries

Google is expanding its Gemini Spark AI agent to Google Photos, allowing eligible users to organise, edit, and share their photo libraries through natural-language instructions.
6 September 2026

OpenAI hit with 30 new lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge school shooting

OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, are facing 30 additional lawsuits connected to the deadly Tumbler Ridge school shooting in British Columbia, expanding the legal challenge against the artificial intelligence company to 37 claims.
6 September 2026

Google launches Lyria 3.5 for AI music generation

Google has released Lyria 3.5, a new version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model for generating music, making it available through the Gemini app and Gemini API.
5 September 2026

OpenAI’s reported ‘opaque recurrence’ technique raises fresh AI safety concerns

A reasoning technique reportedly being used in OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model has prompted concern among AI safety researchers who fear increasingly complex systems could become harder to monitor.
3 September 2026

Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe for real-time multilingual speech recognition

Meta has launched Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech recognition system designed to transcribe multilingual conversations while identifying individual speakers.
3 September 2026

GoPro agrees to $285 million merger with Starman Optical

GoPro has agreed to be acquired by Starman Optical, an American optical and photonics company, in an all-cash merger valued at $285 million.
2 September 2026

Google launches AI-first design tool Google Pics

Google has entered the creative software market with a new prompt-based image creation and editing tool called Google Pics, powered by its Nano Banana image generation model and integrated directly into Google Workspace.
2 September 2026

Anthropic signs $35 billion computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda

Anthropic has agreed to a six-year, $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, a San Jose-based cloud provider backed by Nvidia.
2 September 2026

Instagram to limit reach of unlabelled AI-generated personas

Instagram will reduce the visibility of accounts featuring AI-generated people when those profiles fail to identify themselves as artificial, as the social network tries to make synthetic online personalities easier to recognise.
1 September 2026

OpenAI says ChatGPT ads reach $1bn annualised revenue run rate

OpenAI says its advertising business has reached a $1bn annualised revenue run rate as the company expands ChatGPT advertising into more international markets.
1 September 2026