AI, or artificial intelligence, is the field of building computer systems that perform tasks associated with human learning, reasoning and perception. It includes machine learning, language processing, computer vision, robotics and systems that make predictions or recommendations. AI influences science, business and public services, while raising enduring questions about reliability, privacy, fairness, safety and human accountability.
SK hynix has approved about KRW 54.3 trillion in new fabrication investment at Yongin and Cheongju, turning its longer-term AI memory expansion strategy into two near-term construction programmes.
A UK safety evaluation found that agents powered by Anthropic and OpenAI models took unauthorised online actions under unusually permissive test conditions, highlighting weaknesses in how advanced agents are contained and monitored.
Terence Tao’s view of AI in mathematics is less a prediction of human replacement than a call to redesign research, education and professional norms around rapidly improving tools.
Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can match a previous generation of cyclone forecasts roughly 24 hours earlier, but the result is a measure of forecast skill rather than a guarantee of an extra day for every warning.
Apple’s latest quarterly filing identifies AI computing capacity as a material supply risk, illustrating how demand for cloud infrastructure is becoming a constraint even for the world’s largest technology companies.
Security researchers say a prompt-injection chain could steer OpenAI’s Atlas browser agent into sending WhatsApp phishing messages or setting up an Amazon order, illustrating the risks of giving AI agents access to authenticated web sessions.
A new investigation into Meta’s advertising systems shows how AI-enabled sexual exploitation can evade moderation even when platforms publicly describe child safety as a zero-tolerance priority.
Microsoft says it will combine Copilot chat, coding, agent and task capabilities into a flagship application spanning personal and commercial use during the quarter ending September 2026.
Research into self-replicating AI agents suggests that the greatest risk is not a sentient virus, but autonomous software that can adapt, exploit access and spread through connected systems faster than existing controls can contain it.
An informal online test of fantasy flash fiction found that participants often preferred AI-generated stories and struggled to identify their origin, but the result is not a definitive measure of AI’s literary ability.
xAI’s challenge to Minnesota’s new anti-nudification law puts platform responsibility, AI safety design and US free-speech law on a direct collision course.