OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’
Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking
The Guardian view on new dictionary words: a parlour game that can clarify a scary reality
Editorial: AI has given us hallucination as word of the year. We should quarrel with this humanising definition while recognising that it evokes unprecedented times
Jeremy Hunt to announce US-inspired science and technology scheme
Plan to nurture homegrown investors focused on ensuring UK innovations have commercial payoff
Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk’s firms endure turbulent weekend
Another space launch failed, but it’s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon
Among the ‘memory athletes’, 1971
Could a computer ever rival their astonishing feats? The idea seemed preposterous By Emma Beddington
Experience: I invented the lickable TV
My creation was well received – the BBC described it as ‘netlicks’
How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment
Research is growing into computational models that will move medicine beyond what works on the average patient
Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships
Cambridge University scientists develop a device to ‘defossilise’ the economy using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide
Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies
Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’
The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition
British biotech races US’s ‘buff billionaires’ for secret of eternal youth
The UK excels at ‘longevity research’. Could it become part of an industry that fascinates the wealthiest people in the world?
‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize
Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age
‘AI can teach us a lot’: scientists say cats’ expressions richer than imagined and aim to translate them
Artificial intelligence being used to unpick meanings behind vocal and physical cues of host of creatures
Sunak, Musk and AI: what we learned from the Bletchley Park summit
The PM held his passion project get-together in the UK to understand the risks and rewards of AI – what did we learn?
Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park
Rishi Sunak hails conference as diplomatic coup after it produces international declaration to address AI risks