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Barclays Is Cutting 5,000 Jobs and Calls AI the Icing on the Cake

Barclays posted a 12% profit jump and, in the same breath, said it expects about 5,000 fewer staff, with fewer developers as AI makes its people more productive. Unions call it an excuse.

Arkansas Mother Sues xAI Alleging Grok Was Used to Turn Preschool Photos Into Abuse Material

A Bentonville mother alleges in a new lawsuit that a school photographer used xAI's Grok to turn her young daughter's preschool photos into child sexual abuse material, and that xAI failed to stop it.

Why an AI Industry Taskforce Says Britain Has One Year to Stop a Data Centre Backlash

An industry taskforce including Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has warned UK ministers they have roughly 12 months to win public consent for AI data centres, and wants host councils paid to say yes.

How Recursive Says Its AI Built Flint, a Fast Coding Model for Laptops

Richard Socher's startup Recursive released Flint, an open-weight coding model it says was largely designed by its own automated research system. The self-reported benchmarks look strong, but the bigger

Why Demis Hassabis Just Cut His Own AGI Timeline to 2 to 3 Years

Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis now forecasts AGI within two to three years, down from his earlier estimates. His shorter clock lands the same week DeepMind staff are quitting over military AI.

Why Dario Amodei Went Line by Line Against an AI Safety Critic

Encode AI's Nathan Calvin says Anthropic now acts like a company racing for superintelligence first. Dario Amodei answered with nine costly safety calls and three narrow concessions, but sidestepped the

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