Creatures filmed in the deep ocean are'more remarkable than AI could imagine and it's completely real', said the Blue Planet III producers. Creatures filmed in the deep ocean are'more remarkable than AI could imagine and it's completely real', said the Blue Planet III producers. BBC series deliberately uses'more organic' shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is "authentic", its producers have said. Nearly a decade after Blue Planet II shone a light on plastic pollution, and 25 years since the first Blue Planet aired, the hit BBC series is returning with more animal behaviour and cutting-edge technology, including the world's first underwater CCTV camera - dubbed "stonefish" cam. Since the first Blue Planet, TVs and cameras have evolved to give viewers sharper, higher definition pictures.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, aims to harness the opportunities of AI to raise living standards and boost UK's economic growth. Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, aims to harness the opportunities of AI to raise living standards and boost UK's economic growth. John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain's security Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop'distinctively British' approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday's budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster Britain's security and prosperity against the risks in the accelerating global technology arms race. As he prepares for his debut budget, the chancellor said that Andy Burnham's government would commit hundreds of millions of pounds to develop a "distinctively British" approach to AI that would capitalise on the benefits of the frontier technology. At a fork in the road as AI developments pose both existential threats and transformative economic potential, Healey said he would be making the biggest ever investment to guard against cyber risks and the disruptive potential of the technology.

'Black October': cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of'vulnerability tsunami' Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to come. "I no longer think we're going to be able to patch all bugs," said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives. In the midst of what's being called "Black October", for which researchers used AI to help identify critical flaws in a coding language that is used across millions of websites and may have been unpatched for years, tech executives are warning about the ways AI will be used both to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale and pace. The next few months will see a "vulnerability tsunami", according to Jason Clinton, Anthropic's deputy chief information security officer.

Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez's Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain's main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister's wife has sparked outrage and set off a wider debate on AI, as the deeply polarised country gears up for general elections next month. Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative People's party (PP), the video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of various people linked to Pedro Sánchez's Socialist party and appeared to show them admitting to acts such as soliciting prostitutes and taking kickbacks. An AI-generated version of Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez, for example, speaks about receiving a university post thanks to her husband's job, while a deepfake of the former Socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero speaks about hiding jewellery in a safe. Both lines are nods to ongoing investigations in which Gómez and Zapatero have denied any wrongdoing. The Socialist party was swift to respond to the video, which by Friday had racked up nearly 2m views.

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, attend the Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California,on 15 September 2026. Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, attend the Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California,on 15 September 2026. L ast year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of code . Neither of those predictions came to pass. Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new "bottleneck" as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents.

'In its most ambitious form, such a program would ensure that anyone who wants work is guaranteed a meaningful, decently paid job.' 'In its most ambitious form, such a program would ensure that anyone who wants work is guaranteed a meaningful, decently paid job.' We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment? In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed that a crisis can propel once-fringe ideas into the political mainstream. "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around," he wrote.

An options trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on 7 January 2026. An options trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on 7 January 2026. The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran . The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July, while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.6%. The weakness for tech stocks was so overwhelming that it masked strength for the rest of the US market, in which the majority of stocks actually rose.

Barclays' strong performance included a 6% rise in net interest income at its UK retail banking operations, to £2bn. Barclays' strong performance included a 6% rise in net interest income at its UK retail banking operations, to £2bn. Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank's bosses hail AI productivity advances Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs as part of wider cost-cutting plans that its bosses say are being driven by advances in AI. The job cuts will mean losing about 5% of the bank's 93,000 global staff, with executives confirming they had already cut 1,000 workers since the start of the year. The bank's chief financial officer, Anna Cross, told reporters on Thursday that the job cuts were part of plans to save more than £1.1bn in 2027.

AI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction. Successive dry summers and rising energy bills are increasing public scrutiny of plans for the huge computer warehouses that are used to train and run AI models, says a submission to the Labour government from a group including the AI infrastructure companies Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco. Amid increasing anti-datacentre activism in the US and Europe, they are calling on ministers to create a "compact" that would show how communities can benefit from hosting datacentres, including allowing councils that host them to retain more tax revenues. The move by the Sovereign AI Leadership (SAIL) taskforce reflects rising concern among tech companies that arguments that have blocked datacentre developments in parts of the US are taking hold in Britain. Microsoft has promised to invest $30bn (£22bn) in UK AI infrastructure.

Author withdrawn from France's Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novel The publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, who was removed from France's most prestigious literary prize list last month, has confirmed the author used artificial intelligence to help write his novel C'était ça ou mourir (It Was Either That or Die). Orélien has denied allegations that he used AI on his breakthrough novel and, last week, Canadian publisher Les Éditions du Boréal said it was standing by the 38-year-old writer. But on Wednesday, Boréal said it had conducted a further investigation into the allegations. "New information, confirmed over the past few days, indicates that artificial intelligence was used in the writing process" of the novel, a statement from Boréal said. The publisher announced it was "ending its professional relationship" with Orélien.