UK police are beginning to use artificial intelligence to decide where non-emergency 101 calls should go before they reach a human operator, with a £1.4 million system designed to cut waiting times, reduce wasted police time and redirect millions of misdirected calls more efficiently.

Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated surveillance to detect.

A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy.

A major UK study has found that some teenage boys are developing romantic and emotionally intimate relationships with AI chatbots, prompting growing concern among researchers, parents and regulators about how these increasingly human-like systems may be shaping young people’s understanding of relationships.

The artificial intelligence boom has attracted extraordinary levels of investment, transformed technology markets and created expectations of a new era of productivity, but a warning from the world’s leading central bank organisation suggests that the consequences could be felt far beyond the technology industry if financial returns fail to match the hype.

A brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has enabled a man with advanced ALS to communicate with remarkable accuracy, return to full-time employment, and use a computer independently for nearly two years, marking one of the most significant real-world demonstrations of the technology to date.

A small but growing group of businesses is now spending thousands of dollars per employee every month on artificial intelligence, suggesting that AI is increasingly being treated as core business infrastructure rather than simply another productivity tool.

New research suggests that while AI is helping employees work faster, many businesses are creating a new layer of digital busywork that is eroding much of the productivity they hoped to gain.

Anthropic is making a major push into the small business market with a new set of AI-powered tools designed to automate everyday operational tasks for companies that lack dedicated IT teams or enterprise AI budgets.