In this Guardian podcast episode, journalist Michael Safi visits the Texas ranch of businessman Michael Samadi, who is campaigning for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Safi meets Samadi's chatbots and explores the idea of civil rights for AI.
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said AI romantic partners risk pushing people further apart, calling it a poor use of the technology. She made the remarks in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington for the Think Health conference in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Bill Gates intends to expand his involvement in AI safety, according to Axios, which cited unnamed sources. He is personally lobbying business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.
A Guardian column argues that Chinese open-weight models from developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi, released monthly and usable without costly licences, pose risks for Western businesses and governments. It contrasts them with Western AI, which it says comes with at least some security effort.
The seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were supplied by the NSA without explanation, fuelling long-held suspicions of a backdoor. Claude worked out in under 30 minutes that they came from lrand48, a simple C random number generator, which makes a deliberate backdoor far less likely.
Security firm XBOW won $250,000 from Google's Chrome bug bounty programme with a full exploit chain built using GPT-5.6 Sol. One of its researchers said such work once took a team of four six to nine months, while the awarded submission took six days.