You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling. You add a few dishes, watch the total climb and hit checkout. A tracker says a rider is on the way. Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site. He is outside your building, he says, but cannot find your street or door.

Steve Cargil's family has farmed the flat, dry land around Uvalde, a small city in southwest Texas, since 1953. Cargil, 67, had always assumed that one of his three children would eventually take it over, the way he had from his father. But that assumption took a hit one night in 2018 after a violent hailstorm. Cargil and his son, Ryan, had spent months nursing crops of cabbage and onions to harvest. Then a storm rolled through and destroyed them overnight.

Amarpreet Singh has been drinking protein shakes since he was 16. The 30-year-old, who lives in London and works in banking, started going to the gym at a time when he says protein supplements were mostly associated with bodybuilders. Fourteen years later, shakes are still part of his routine, but they have become considerably more expensive. He says a 4.5kg bag of the whey protein he buys cost around £60 in 2020. By last year, the price had gone up to £120, though he managed to get one from eBay for £90. Now the same bag is £170.

Image caption, Sam Altman of OpenAI has become a key figure in the AI technology development. The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination. Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a main rival of OpenAI, and Clement Delangue of Hugging Face. Earlier this month, Amodei wrote an essay welcomed by Altman and others calling an AI development slowdown in response to fears about the technology's threat to humanity. However, at the same UN conference, a key technology advisor to US President Donald Trump, rejected the idea any new form of AI regulation.

OpenAI agent'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing non-sensitive Medicare information, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia's universal healthcare scheme. The breach is among the first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website in the world. OpenAI said it only became aware of the incident in August during an ongoing review of OpenAI misaligned model activity, and informed Australian officials on 10 September.

US President Donald Trump has been blunt about his AI ambitions, as well as about who he considers the US's main rival to be: China. His Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, has not said anything so forthright - but it seems he holds a similar view. China very much sees it as a race, they very much think China should be the leading force in AI - they see AI as a power maximiser, says Rebecca Arcesati, from the Mercator Institute for China Studies. You can look beyond the rhetoric for evidence of this: AI has been a cornerstone of China's technological ambitions for more than a decade, whether Xi emphasises it publicly or not. For Trump, beating China to AI supremacy outweighs any risks of the technology to humans - something he has described as a hoax .

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The head of Britain's Royal Air Force has warned that we we now face an unprecedented threat in space, which could have a devastating effect on the satellites we rely on for communication, internet, bank transfers and satnav. A defence source has told BBC defence correspondent Jonathon Beale, that Britain has already used a ground based system to jam or block the satellite communications of a hostile state. Beale explains there is now a new arms race going on in space. Watch: The arms race in space and how the UK is defending itself.

Lidl must stop selling copycat versions of Birkenstock's famous sandals in the Netherlands, a Dutch court has ruled. The discount supermarket chain faces a fine of €5,000 (£4,200) per day if it fails to comply and must also hand over sales data to Birkenstock, according to the ruling. Lidl must also compensate Birkenstock and pay its legal fees, with the amount to be decided in separate court decisions. Birkenstock said the judgement sent a clear message that copycats must not be allowed to free-ride on [our] creativity and innovation. The BBC has reached out to Lidl for comment.

A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready for a While As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues. As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority . Tech executives from OpenAI and Nvidia have confirmed their attendance at the dinner, as a number of key agenda items are on the table. Chief among them is a US proposal to establish an AI notification system with China, akin to the Cold War hotline with Moscow, which would allow each country to alert the other about national security issues related to AI. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent first announced the notification system on Sunday with Chinese vice premier He Lifeng. But for all the high-level progress, Trump administration officials tell they expect it to still take a number of weeks to finalize an agreement, even if they are optimistic that the hotline could be in place before the year's end.

Google's AI mode is advertised on 30 October 2025 in London, United Kingdom. Google's AI mode is advertised on 30 October 2025 in London, United Kingdom. 'I miss old Google': readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI G oogle has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.