BNP Paribas is working with Mistral AI to prepare for a category of AI cybersecurity tools its US peers already use and its European supervisors cannot reliably get hold of, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. The Paris-based bank, the eurozone’s largest by assets, is one of several European institutions helping Mistral develop a […]
Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings like any other app. For IT administrators, the new policy is called “Remove Microsoft […]
Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data including joint wear, battery status, and AI training history. China has launched a national identification system […]
Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, currently the top-ranked AI video model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The pitch is straightforward. AI video […]
Eurostat published last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their business, up from 13.5 per cent the year before. A jump of six and a half […]
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head of its interpretability research, used his seat at the Vatican on Monday to make an argument that no leader of […]
Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in Rome on Monday, to call for the disarmament of artificial intelligence. The 245-paragraph document, titled Magnifica humanitas, frames AI […]
