The OfS said many institutions had already redesigned how they assessed students to reduce potential AI misuse. The OfS said many institutions had already redesigned how they assessed students to reduce potential AI misuse. AI has made it'close to impossible' to assess university coursework, regulator says Universities should go back to traditional exams and in-person presentations to grade students after lecturers complained that AI has made it "close to impossible" to assess coursework, according to an investigation by England's higher education regulator. The Office for Students (OfS) said the credibility of degrees from England's universities was under threat from the prolific use of AI in essays, dissertations and "open book" exams, with students reporting that their peers boasted of using AI undetected by staff. The regulator warned universities and other higher education institutions that failing to design "valid and reliable measures of students' knowledge and skills" to combat AI could breach their conditions of registration and lead to sanctions being imposed.

Trading in Anthropic shares could start as soon as next week. Trading in Anthropic shares could start as soon as next week. Tue 10 Nov 2026 11.13 ESTLast modified on Tue 10 Nov 2026 11.18 EST Anthropic is seeking a valuation of up to $1.4tn (£1.05tn) in its imminent stock market flotation, short of the $2tn that had been expected before investors started to question the durability of the AI boom. The developer of the Claude chatbot was widely reported to be targeting a $2tn initial public offering on Wall Street but its sights have been set lower, according to a US regulatory filing on Tuesday. Anthropic is aiming to raise up to $64.4bn by selling 825m shares in the IPO priced up to $78 a share, giving the company a valuation of up to $1.4tn.

GP data has been expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England. GP data has been expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England. Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools' reach to NHS GP records Mon 9 Nov 2026 12.58 ESTLast modified on Mon 9 Nov 2026 14.01 EST Palantir lobbied a health minister to consider extending its AI technology into GP records, stretching its reach into the NHS in a way doctors fear could undermine trust with patients. The US company, co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel, used a direct WhatsApp channel to argue that "the logic of joining up primary and secondary [care] data is unarguable" and said its software was "ideal" for the job. The push came in February this year despite GP data being expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England to run its federated data platform (FDP), which it says has helped cut surgery waiting times and discharge delays.

Campaigners say the environmental and social costs of the sites are too high. Campaigners say the environmental and social costs of the sites are too high. Thu 5 Nov 2026 04.00 ESTLast modified on Thu 5 Nov 2026 04.02 EST Protesters across Europe are planning two days of action against datacentres this week with demonstrations taking place in 15 countries. More than 100 groups are joining together for the "Stop Dirty Data Centres" events on Friday and Saturday. They are calling for a moratorium on large projects, citing environmental and social costs that "we can no longer afford".

The trusts said that the Palantir system was either not live or they were not using any of its applications. The trusts said that the Palantir system was either not live or they were not using any of its applications. Exclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts' comments described as'very misleading' by senior health official Mon 2 Nov 2026 05.19 ESTLast modified on Mon 2 Nov 2026 05.31 EST More than two dozen hospital trusts the NHS claims have benefited from Palantir's medical data platform are not using all or most of the AI-powered technology, the Guardian can reveal. The 29 hospital trusts that NHS England publicly lists as "realising benefits" from the controversial £330m federated data platform (FDP) have said the system is not live or they are not using any of its applications. The apparent gap between the NHS claim and the trusts' understanding was described as "very misleading" by one senior health official.

Fri 30 Oct 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 30 Oct 2026 11.34 EDT Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, theyâ re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phoneâ s sensors to different words in a database. In the age of ChatGPT, the ghost-hunting pair is probing the world of AI. They describe one of their latest inventions, an app called GhostTube Seer, as â the worldâ s first AI Ghost Hunting toolâ . In the hands of paranormal investigators, scientific tools like EMF meters (used to detect electromagnetic fields) are repurposed to identify changes and anomalies that they believe indicate supernatural activity.

It is thought to have been the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK. It is thought to have been the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK. AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UKâ s ban on disposable vapes. Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK. The attempt to manipulate the outcome of the consultation was disclosed on Tuesday in research published in the journal Tobacco Control by the health policy experts Dr Nason Maani, from the University of Edinburgh, and Prof Anna Gilmore, of the University of Bath.

Shares in Meta rose in early trading on the news. However, other companies in the AI sector found themselves under further pressure on Monday. Shares in Meta rose in early trading on the news. However, other companies in the AI sector found themselves under further pressure on Monday. Mon 26 Oct 2026 09.37 EDTLast modified on Mon 26 Oct 2026 12.41 EDT Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has announced plans for a $95bn (£71bn) fundraising to cover its AI expenditure, even as Elon Musk warned that funding for smaller players in the sector was drying up.

Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.03 EDTLast modified on Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.04 EDT Anthropic's Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology. The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.

CXMT said it had made good progress on new DRAM architecture that would boost chip memory density. CXMT said it had made good progress on new DRAM architecture that would boost chip memory density. Tue 13 Oct 2026 05.48 EDTFirst published on Tue 13 Oct 2026 04.01 EDT Shares in semiconductor companies fell on Tuesday after the boss of Broadcom compared many AI investors to "casino" gamblers, and the Chinese memory chip maker CXMT said it had made good progress on a new chip architecture. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.8% and the Taiwan exchange lost almost 2%, with the country's chip maker TSMC down by a similar amount. Samsung Electronics shares dropped 7.4% on the South Korean exchange, while the memory chip maker SK Hynix was down 10%.