Whistleblower Simon Andriesz spent years asking the FCA for protection. After his death, the UK regulator faces calls for an external inquiry – and for its chair to resign.

Newly unsealed and unredacted court filings reveal astonishing admissions by tech executives about the impact their wholesale pillage of proprietary content is having on original content creation.

People in 32 states faced alleged reprisals for talking to the UN, its latest report finds: surveilled, smeared, beaten, even stabbed – increasingly far from home.

OpenAI has begun publishing details of how its own models fabricate data, use leaked credentials and write themselves free of oversight.

As another AI researcher quits, warning of an existential risk to humanity, industry insiders demand enforceable treaties and a global licensing regime for superintelligence – before it’s too late.

Whistleblower Tumiso Mphuthi exposed corruption, was vindicated by subsequent investigations, then fired anyway. South Africa’s protections remain “performative political theatre”.

Google is moving its 90-person AI responsibility team out of DeepMind into global affairs, fuelling fears that the shift will compromise access, independence and threat-detection ability.

Professor Egbuna Olakunle Obidike, the architect of Gambian paediatrics whose training programme caught the toxic cough syrup poisoning children worldwide, has passed away. Tributes are pouring in.

Europe’s AI Act enters enforcement with nine banned practices, high-risk safeguards, mandatory watermarking, clearly labelled deepfakes and fines for non-compliance of up to 3% of global turnover.

South Australia will hold Australia's first royal commission into AI – not to investigate a past failure, but to shape policy before the damage is done.

State control of the news media is shaping what AI chatbots say. Research in Nature finds LLMs give more pro-government answers in the languages of countries with less press freedom.

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Anthropic secretly scanned and pulped millions of books to train its AI, because pre-2022 print is free of AI-generated slop now degrading large language models.