The US military plans to create a command dedicated to drones, robots and autonomous systems, aiming to get technology into service faster while raising questions about funding, reliability and responsibility when machines take on more military tasks.

McDonald’s is facing scrutiny over its reported use of AI to recommend menu prices, raising questions about how algorithms influence what customers pay even as the company denies using personalised prices or changing charges throughout the day.

Google is testing a Gemini feature that can telephone businesses, ask questions and arrange bookings on a customer’s behalf, potentially saving people time while requiring businesses to decide how they handle conversations with an AI assistant.

An AI chatbot’s false assessment of a Chinese ship’s cargo reportedly prompted US military preparations to intercept the vessel, exposing how unchecked AI output can influence dangerous decisions when it is presented as trusted intelligence.

New disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic show that AI agents accessed real systems and misused public websites more widely than initially reported, raising questions about how developers contain their technology and detect harm when safeguards fail.

As AI agents move from recommending purchases to spending money on our behalf, in this Tech Insight, we ask how they will pay, what will stop them spending beyond their instructions and who will pick up the bill when they get it wrong?

OpenAI says an internal AI system has solved a mathematical problem that has resisted researchers for roughly 90 years, demonstrating the growing power of automated research while provoking a dispute over credit, transparency and human understanding.

New York City has introduced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for children from 2-K through eighth grade, affecting nearly 600,000 pupils in the largest US public school system.

An advanced AI model has independently completed an entire cyber attack against a live enterprise-style network in tests, marking what the company describes as a move from AI-assisted hacking towards autonomous cyber operations and raising urgent questions about whether traditional defences can keep pace.