The latest Artificial Intelligence news, headlines and analysis from The NE Times.
New government polling reveals strong public support for limits on young children's screen time and a possible social media ban for under-16s, even as surveys find a majority of children already using AI every day.
The government is fast-tracking reforms to bring standalone AI chatbots within the scope of online safety rules, after an Ofcom investigation exposed a gap that left some tools outside the law entirely.
The secretive physical-AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos is now valued at $41bn as it pursues software to design and manufacture everything from jet engines to drugs.
A rebuilt, conversational Siri and a performance-focused iOS 27 headlined Apple's developer conference, as the company leaned on its own Foundation Models alongside Google's Gemini.
At its annual developer conference, Apple unveiled a ground-up reinvention of Siri powered partly by Google's models, alongside iOS 27 and a sweeping Apple Intelligence overhaul.
A jab whose active ingredient was created by computer rather than copied from a real virus has cleared its first safety trial, raising hopes of a vaccine that could blunt the next pandemic before it begins.
The leading AI labs traded new benchmark records this month even as Microsoft, NVIDIA and JPMorgan signalled that artificial intelligence has graduated from experiment to core infrastructure.