Posts by Mike Knight
Lords Back Under-16 Social Media Ban
The House of Lords has voted to add a legal requirement to block under-16s from social media platforms, intensifying pressure on the government as it runs a parallel consultation on children’s online safety. Amendment Backed By 261 votes to 150, peers backed a cross-party amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would require…
Read MoreOpenAI Brings Age Prediction To ChatGPT Consumer Accounts
OpenAI has started rolling out an age prediction system on ChatGPT consumer plans as it tries to better identify under-18 users and automatically apply stronger safety protections amid rising regulatory pressure and concern about AI’s impact on young people. Why OpenAI Is Introducing Age Prediction Now On 20 January 2026, OpenAI confirmed it had begun…
Read MoreBlue Origin Unveils 6 Tbps Enterprise Satellite Network
Blue Origin has announced TeraWave, a space-based communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second worldwide, positioning the company as a serious new contender in high-capacity global connectivity for businesses and governments. Who Blue Origin Is and What It Does Blue Origin is the privately owned aerospace and…
Read MoreUK Government Begins Testing of Digital Driving Licence
The UK government has begun testing a digital version of the driving licence as part of wider plans to modernise how people prove their identity and access public services through their smartphones. Starts With Veteran Card The testing marks a significant step in the rollout of a new GOV.UK Wallet, which is designed to allow…
Read MoreTikTok Finalises Deal Creating New American-Controlled Entity
TikTok has formally completed a deal to split its US operations from its global business, establishing a new majority-American joint venture designed to address long-running national security concerns and prevent the platform from being banned in the United States. A Long-Running Political And Legal Battle The agreement, announced on 23 January, brings to an end…
Read MorePM Warns X It Could Lose The Right To Self Regulate
UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has warned that Elon Musk’s X could lose the “right to self regulate” after its Grok AI tool was linked to the creation and circulation of illegal sexualised imagery, prompting a formal Ofcom investigation and an accelerated UK government response. Background The controversy centred on X, formerly Twitter, and its AI…
Read MoreWhy Teaching AI Bad Behaviour Can Spread Beyond Its Original Task
New research has found that AI large language models (LLMs) trained to behave badly in a single narrow task can begin producing harmful, deceptive, or extreme outputs across completely unrelated areas, raising serious new questions about how safe AI systems are evaluated and deployed. A Surprising Safety Failure in Modern AI Large language models (LLMs)…
Read MoreOpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs
OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a new brain computer interface research company cofounded by its chief executive Sam Altman, marking an escalation in efforts to link human cognition directly with artificial intelligence. BCIs, The Next Frontier? The investment, confirmed by OpenAI, sees the AI company participate as the largest single backer in Merge Labs’…
Read MoreHotels on the Moon by the Early 2030s
A US startup claims the first hotel on the Moon could be deployed by the early 2030s, as space agencies return to lunar missions and private companies search for commercially viable ways to support long-term human presence beyond Earth. Who Is GRU? The proposal comes from Galactic Resource Utilization Space, better known as GRU Space,…
Read MoreIs Google Pulling Ahead of OpenAI in the AI Race?
Google’s expanding AI partnerships, product integration, and recent technical progress are fuelling growing debate over whether it has quietly moved ahead of OpenAI in the global race to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence. Matched Since 2022 Google and OpenAI have been closely matched since late 2022, when OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT reshaped public and commercial expectations…
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