'Spy chief's grim warning' and'tiger victim was child actor' Image caption, Many of Wednesday's papers lead on a speech from MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum. Under the headline red alert, The Daily Mirror reports on his warning that Russia is the number one threat to UK security. Danger exists in the form of sabotage, arson, AI, bio-weapons, coercion and violence, with the MI5 chief comparing the situation to that the which existed after 9/11. Image caption, The Daily Express also leads with the warning, headlining that the UK must not'play into hands' of Putin. It notes that the MI5 chief said Russia trolls who are alleged to have attempted to sway the Brexit referendum will be delighted to be front page news once again after being mentioned in the prime minister in a recent interview.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has died after falling from a rollercoaster at a Six Flags amusement park on Monday in the US state of Georgia. The man, Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, was found dead under the ride after being ejected and hitting other people on it, according to police. An investigation is under way and few details have yet to be released about what happened. Six Flags, the largest amusement park operator in North America, has temporarily closed nine rides across the US and Canada as a precaution.

A Saudi national who worked as an engineer at the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has been arrested after a listening device was found in the company's conference room, according to United States authorities. In a statement on Tuesday, the Department of Justice said that the employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi engineer named Abdulrahman Alfozan, had worked at the company since July 2025. Alfozan made his first court appearance on Tuesday and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. "Protecting American [super intelligence] innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation's economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities," Kash Patel, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said in response to the arrest. The incident raises concerns about surveillance and underhanded efforts to gain an edge in the AI sector, where companies and countries have angled for an advantage.

German police have launched an investigation into two teenagers accused of controlling a robot that allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl. Police in Cologne have confiscated the red and gold robot that allegedly grabbed the girl's buttocks and made thrusting motions against her before she screamed and moved away. North Rhine Westphalia Police said the robot's 16-year-old owner and his companion, 19, are believed to have streamed the incident live on social media and commented on it. According to a police statement on Facebook, the 120cm (3.9ft) tall device approached the girl from behind while she was with her friends close to midnight local time (23:00 BST) on Saturday. The girl was in front of a fast-food outlet near the city centre when the incident took place, police said.

Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer's alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives. An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company's San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national and US permanent resident, allegedly spent several weeks querying an unspecified "productivity agent" and an "AI chatbot" to plan his alleged surveillance operation. He used an internal OpenAI tool to ask about meetings scheduled in the targeted conference room. He also appears to have used a chatbot account associated with his spouse to ask various technical questions about setting up a covert audio recording device, according to prosecutors and the court filing.

Is it OK for jobseekers or employers to use AI? To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Could using AI in your job application be ruining your chances of getting hired? Would you use AI to help you write a CV or cover letter? We are increasingly using the technology to help us with job applications, graduates, external and recruiters say, with many employers happy for us to do so within reason.

About 400 postmen and women are leaving Royal Mail per week, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU), who claims this number has gone up since the company introduced a new delivery system earlier this year. The CWU says the firm had been losing about 330 postal staff a week from a workforce of 83,000 before it rolled out DM26, which reorganised routes to improve delivery performance. The union claims the new system is not working in hundreds of offices, and BBC Your Voice has heard from staff warning of a nightmare Christmas ahead as the number of parcels increases. Royal Mail says the reforms are part of its plan to deliver a more efficient and financially sustainable service. Over the last year we've been in touch with more than 30 postal staff in all four nations of the UK, as they have switched over to DM26.

OpenAI is holding early talks with investors about a fresh funding round that would value the ChatGPT creator at more than $1.2 trillion ahead of an initial public offering. OpenAI is holding early talks with investors about a fresh funding round that would value the ChatGPT creator at more than $1.2 trillion ahead of an initial public offering. Discovery of'sophisticated' gadget adds to company's list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the "sophisticated recording device" and used one of its "models to understand the device and where it had come from".

Saudi man charged with planting'sophisticated' recording device in OpenAI office A Saudi national has been charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI's offices in California, federal prosecutors announced. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at the AI firm as an engineer, was charged federally with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. OpenAI said it had discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in their San Francisco office and alerted the FBI. The company said it used its AI models to track that it had been planted by an employee. Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room.

A group of more than 300 scientists from around the world is calling for urgent changes to how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed amid growing concerns about its unpredictable behaviour. The letter, released on Tuesday and signed by researchers representing universities and research institutes in 32 countries, warned that failures to follow basic cybersecurity practices could lead to damage to critical infrastructure. They recommended that organisations developing and testing advanced AI systems capable of carrying out cyberattacks do so in more tightly controlled environments, including "air-gapped" systems that are not connected to the internet. The letter comes amid growing concerns about AI's capabilities and its potential impact on everyday users. On Monday, Anthropic warned that its AI models could soon be capable of creating self-spreading malware that could affect everyday internet-connected devices, including smart TVs, security cameras and smart appliances such as ovens.