UN human rights chief Volker Türk sent frontier AI companies and governments an open letter on 14 September 2026 warning of unprecedented risks. We read the letter itself: 1,180 words, 14 requests, no company names, no deadlines, one precaution on recursive self-improvement, how it compares with EU and California law, and the same-day responses.
Superintelligence ban advocacy got its biggest mainstream platform of the year on 9 September 2026, when TechCrunch published an Equity podcast episode titled “Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?” The guest was Connor Leahy, founder of EleutherAI and of the AI safety startup Conjecture, and now the US lead at ControlAI — a non-profit […]
Existential risk is the phrase that carried Volker Türk’s speech around the world on 7 September 2026, and it is worth knowing how much of the speech it actually was. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered his global update to the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva that morning. The […]
Robot protest footage from Warsaw travelled a great deal further this week than the story sitting underneath it. On Monday 7 September 2026, around thirty machines — bipedal humanoids and dog-like quadrupeds — marched in circles outside Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, waving flags while loudspeakers played the chants “Defend workplaces”, “Time for rules” and […]
Responsible AI by design is the message a group of academic editors put into print this week, and it is aimed squarely at how data science teams currently work. The latest issue of the INFORMS Journal on Computing carries a special issue titled “Responsible AI and Data Science for Social Good”, and its co-editors argue […]
Mythos 5.1 is the version of Anthropic’s newest frontier model that almost nobody is allowed to use. In September 2026 the company announced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 together, and it is unusually direct about what separates them: nothing at all, except the safeguards wrapped around the weights. Fable 5.1 is generally available. […]
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill on 1–2 September 2026, the United States is asking the world’s largest economies to sign the Carolina Principles: a non-binding pact to reserve new AI regulation for genuinely novel issues and to avoid creating new AI regulators. This article sets out what the principles say, who is in the room with Musk, Altman, Huang and Hassabis, why Washington wants the pact now, the counter-arguments from the Hugging Face breach and the UN panel, how it compares with the G20’s own AI record, and what it means for UK and EU businesses.
Meta One subscription plans have started appearing inside the European Union, and Meta is widening access to Meta AI’s voice mode in the same region. This piece sets out what the Core and Premium tiers contain, what the first EU price points from Romania look like, how voice conversations powered by Muse Spark reached Europe, what the Digital Markets Act, GDPR and the AI Act mean for the offer, and how the bundle compares with ChatGPT Plus, Google AI Pro and Claude Pro.
On 31 August 2026 Instagram replaced its optional “AI creator” badge with a required “AI-generated profile” label for any account built around a synthetic person, and attached the first real penalty: unlabelled AI accounts will no longer be recommended to non-followers in Reels and Explore. This piece sets out exactly what Instagram announced, who must label and who is exempt, the Guardian and New York Times investigations that made synthetic influencers a problem, Meta’s own history of deleting its AI personas, the EU AI Act and California rules in the background, what the crackdown leaves untouched, and what brands, agencies and creators should do now.
Makiverse has just been added to AIxploria, the AI tools directory that catalogues thousands of AI sites across more than fifty categories. The new card files Makiverse under Storytelling Generator, where it currently sits at number nineteen, prices it “Paid”, rates it 4.5 out of 5 and stamps it with a Verified Tool badge alongside […]
