Tim Smith: 'Today's short-form, fast-paced, highly captivating content may affect children's attention, comprehension and emotional response'. Tim Smith: 'Today's short-form, fast-paced, highly captivating content may affect children's attention, comprehension and emotional response'. Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children's screen time P arents are constantly being told to limit their children's screen time. A relatively slow-paced programme such as Bluey offers a very different viewing experience to a fast-moving action series such as PAW Patrol, yet both are broadly considered suitable for young children. This challenge is growing as the type of content children are exposed to evolves.

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After WIRED reported last week that Meta's smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the company removed the code this week without commenting on why or whether it plans to add such functionality back into the app later. Another WIRED investigation this week found that xAI's Grok is still hosting sexualized deepfakes, including "nudified" images and videos, of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician. After limiting the release of its new Mythos-class AI model over concerns about its potential impacts on cybersecurity, Anthropic announced a model upgrade for partners in its limited-access group this week and launched a "safe" version of the model to the public with guardrails meant to keep the system from being used to fuel cyberattacks. Meanwhile, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a new directive to federal agencies this week in reaction to new AI threats that includes a requirement to fix the most urgent software vulnerabilities in as little as three days. As Europe looks to separate and insulate itself from US Big Tech, WIRED created a timeline that tracks all the ways EU governments, companies, and other organizations are moving away from US tech.

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. A local court in Germany has issued a ruling that could reshape the operation of search engines and artificial-intelligence-based chatbots worldwide. The Munich Regional Court preliminarily ruled that Google is liable for a series of false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature, requiring the company to prevent the dissemination of erroneous or inaccurate claims through its search engine. The ruling stems from a case first reported by the Decoder, in which two publishers discovered that Google's AI-generated summaries linked them, in certain searches, to questionable business practices, scams, and subscription-related frauds, without any basis for doing so. Earlier this year, the affected companies sent the tech giant a cease-and-desist letter, according to the report.

An AI agent system proposed by researchers in Spain promises to prevent energy theft and damage to EV chargers, as well as the critical energy infrastructure that powers them. The number of electric vehicles on roads around the world continues to grow. The boom in EV adoption has driven the development of accessible, fast, and efficient charging infrastructure. However, this expansion also brings with it new cybersecurity risks that have been not been widely studied, and for which there are still few viable solutions. Cristina Alcaraz, an infrastructure-security researcher at Spain's University of Malaga, explains that the liability of electric-vehicle charging stations is due to the fact that they integrate multiple physical and digital components.

Petra Urban's sketch (before it was manipulated by AI) of the Syrian brothers jailed in January 2026 for murdering their sister. The PVV changed the image and used it on social media. Petra Urban's sketch (before it was manipulated by AI) of the Syrian brothers jailed in January 2026 for murdering their sister. The PVV changed the image and used it on social media. Geert Wilders' PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacing A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing.

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday, following the record-breaking stock market debut of his company SpaceX. With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn, according to Bloomberg, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and boss of French luxury goods group LVMH, Bernard Arnault. Musk - who first made waves in the tech industry in the late 1990s - hasn't always topped the rich list though. In January 2020, he was only the 35th richest person in the world, with a fortune of around $28bn. But his wealth took off that year as the value of his two biggest companies - electric carmaker Tesla and space exploration and AI firm SpaceX - began to grow sharply.

Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut Elon Musk on Friday became the world's first trillionaire after shares in his SpaceX rocket company soared during the biggest-ever stock market debut. The Tesla and SpaceX founder comfortably cemented his status as the world's richest man, with his total net worth standing at $1.11tn (£828bn) according to the Bloomberg rich list. It came as the rocket, telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI) company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn. The company said its shares would be offered at $135 each, but trading opened at $150 and briefly reached $176.50 in a show of investor enthusiasm for potential business related to space and companies associated with Musk. SpaceX shares closed on Friday at about $161.

The FAIR Universe - HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge focused on measuring the physical properties of elementary particles with imperfect simulators. Participants were required to compute and report confidence intervals for a parameter of interest regarding the Higgs boson while accounting for various systematic (epistemic) uncertainties. The dataset is a tabular dataset of 28 features and 280 million instances. Each instance represents a simulated proton-proton collision as observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. The features of these simulations were chosen to capture key characteristics of different types of particles.

Derbyshire police said they were working closely with the CPS over the alleged use of AI systems by an officer to create evidential material in a number of cases. Derbyshire police said they were working closely with the CPS over the alleged use of AI systems by an officer to create evidential material in a number of cases. Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated'evidential material' A police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has been removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK. The officer, who has not been named, is being investigated over allegations of using the technology to "create evidential material in a number of cases" and perverting the course of justice. Derbyshire police told the Financial Times: "A criminal investigation has been launched into an allegation of perverting the course of justice after the alleged use of AI systems by an officer to create evidential material in a number of cases. "The force is working closely with the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to any potentially impacted cases." The force added the investigation was "in its early stages" and no further details were available. It said: "The officer involved has been removed from frontline duties, pending the outcome of the investigation.