SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said AI can become super dangerous" during an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto on Sunday. SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son -- one of AI's fervent believers -- said that even he's worried about safety risks as machines quickly gain more abilities. An exponential surge in AI capabilities makes it imperative for countries to build trust so that they can harness the technology together, Son said at an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on Sunday. He was speaking alongside White House science and tech policy advisor Michael Kratsios. "We don't have any more luxury of having human fight against human," Son said, adding that countries need to work together to control the far greater threat from powerful AI models.

OpenAI's Altman says AI benefits warrant accepting some risks Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI says regarding AI, the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks and argued the technology should remain broadly accessible to the public. "We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency," Altman said in an interview with Politico's technology-focused newsletter Decoded. Altman said there remained a fundamental difference in worldview between OpenAI and rival Anthropic on AI regulation, adding: "I think there's a lot of daylight." "I disagree, but I understand the perspective of people who are like, 'This technology is going to get so powerful, and it's so dangerous, that a single lab in San Francisco should have it and make sure nothing bad happens, and kind of figure out how to dole out the benefits,'" Altman said.

Image caption, Many of Monday's papers are leading with coverage of the Conservative Party conference and the Times angles its front page piece on Kemi Badenoch pledging to scape a range of environmental regulations including strict net-zero standards. Image caption, The Daily Mail takes a wider view of Badenoch's reset of the party, saying she has moved to get it battle-ready for an election with a direct echo of Margaret Thatcher's approach in the 1970s by releasing plans for a return to'common sense' Tory values. Image caption, Under a large headline reading Bad to the future the Daily Mirror runs a piece that opens Badenoch is accused of trying to take the country back to the days of austerity under the'nasty party'. Image caption, The Metro runs a large image of Badenoch next to a story saying she has vowed to be like a no-nonsense mum as she moves to make the Conservatives the'common sense' party, and also likens her approach to an echo of Thatcher. Image caption, Badenoch's promise to save the pension triple lock and her attack on Prime Minister Andy Burnham for going after the elderly is the top line of the front page of the Daily Express. Image caption, Atop its front page, the Sun has a short story on Badenoch warning that Britain must not become a nation of'little ghettos' and migrants should embrace our culture.

Russia may be hiding signal repeaters inside Kyiv to help drones evade Ukraine's electronic warfare defenses using mesh networking, a weapons expert says.

Forced to call him'Dad': The trial over sexual abuse in a disabled care home that has shocked South Korea I was hurting inside, so I came to tell my story. These were Seo Mi-hyeon's first words to the police. Seo, who has an intellectual disability, struggles to form long sentences and can only communicate through brief words and gestures. But her memories of the abuse inflicted upon her were clear. She was one of three residents at a state-run care home in South Korea who were sexually assaulted by the home's director, in a case that has shocked the country and raised serious questions about state care for the disabled.

The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police. A statement from a US department official confirmed on Sunday it had removed all of its bombers from the base back to their home stations in America. The US did not give a reason for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident on 27 September when police were alerted to three suspicious vehicles near the airbase in Gloucestershire. Five men were initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences near the base and subsequently released on police bail. A sixth man, a UK-Iranian national, was also later arrested and released on bail.

Protesters have gathered in a south coast town as more than 100 people believed to be migrants were brought ashore after crossing the Channel in a small boat. A number of people were seen arriving at a marina in Gosport, Hampshire, having been transported aboard two RNLI boats late on Sunday. Their dinghy appeared to have set off from near Utah Beach in Normandy during the morning, according to ship tracking data. French media reported there were about 120 migrants on board. Hampshire Police said it deployed officers to support our partners in the event of an emergency at sea.

Conservative shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith is to outline his plans for the UK economy, including hopes to cut taxes, red tape and house-building costs. Griffith and his colleagues will use day two of the party's conference in Birmingham to also explain how they would want to reduce food costs, support Heathrow Airport expansion and abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency. Another prospective policy is replacing agreements designed to compel developers to fund community projects and services in areas they want to build. Griffith will describe his approach as the most ambitious deregulation project in a generation. Reform UK suggested the Tories were copying our policies.

Image caption, About 160 million people are eligible to vote in Brazil's general election today Polls have closed in Brazil's general election, after voters queued in long lines for a tight first round of the presidential race. After casting his ballot, 80-year-old left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the choice was between democracy and barbarism. His challenger, right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, said he wanted to free the Brazilian people. The result is forecast to be close. BBC Brazil's poll aggregator shows that the gap between Lula and Bolsonaro is only two points.

Anthropic's push for AI regulation mirrors Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto lobbying playbook before FTX collapsed, with critics alleging regulatory capture tactics.