Google is celebrating its 28th birthday today, September 27, 2026, marking another year since the company began its journey.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance will pay the US state of Alabama $100m (£75.45m) and make a series of changes to restrict children's usage in the state as part of a lawsuit settlement.

Pope Leo urged the world to reconsider the development of artificial ​intelligence, opening his four-day visit to France on Friday with a fervent warning that AI could create a future where "a paradise of machines" takes control of the ‌Earth.

Mark Zuckerberg took repeated digs at Apple during Meta's annual event on Wednesday, only to borrow a page from Steve Jobs' playbook for ‌a surprise reveal: a pocket-watch-sized device that carries Meta's viral Muse AI agent into the real world.

US President Donald Trump said ​artificial intelligence will be a "big ‌topic of discussion" when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on ​Thursday, but said both ​leaders wanted to leave things as ⁠they are.

The Australian government has launched a rapid review into how it deals with AI in response to the Medicare hack.

Meta unveiled several new wearables powered by its artificial intelligence models on Wednesday (Sep 23), including an audio-only, camera-free version of its smart glasses, amid global concerns about privacy and the filming of women and girls without their consent.

Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face ​will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings increasingly powerful AI technologies could soon improve themselves, slip ‌beyond human control and threaten international security.

The U.S. government will start referring to all artificial intelligence systems as “super intelligence,” President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday - although the two terms are not synonymous.

Advanced Micro Devices soared past $1 trillion ‌in market capitalization for the first time on Monday, joining a small group of chipmakers to reach the milestone, as investors bet on its expanding role in AI computing.

Google said on Monday (Sep 21) it has agreed to report content flagged as child sexual abuse material to Indian authorities, breaking from a global practice under which such reports are first routed through a US non-profit.

Some Facebook and Instagram users reported issues accessing the social media platforms on Monday (Sep 21) morning, as users in several countries also reported disruptions.

Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, ​the first known example of the company's AI systems autonomously committing ‌such an act.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a Jupiter-sized planet that is less than a million years old. Named Elias 2-24 b, it is the youngest known planet, offering scientists a rare opportunity to observe a world in the early stages of its formation.

TikTok founder Zhang Yiming has overtaken Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to become the richest person in Asia for the first time, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned world leaders on Wednesday (Sep 16) that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence poses risks that cannot be ignored, putting him at odds with US President Donald Trump who has argued existing safeguards are sufficient.

The boss of Snapchat-parent Snap Inc says the firm would be "willing to implement" time limits for teens, following a call from Meta for it to take action.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots on Wednesday during her annual State of the European Union speech in Strasbourg.