The head of Microsoft AI has warned that without adequate safeguards, the development of AI could lead to the emergence of a new “silicon species” which competes with humans. Mustafa Suleyman said rival firm Anthropic is treating AI like it is human, an approach he called “misguided” which could create technology that humanity cannot control. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, the chief executive said it was “right” for people to be concerned about AI, but there were “very practical things that we can do” to control it.

OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour by its technology, as it warned the pace of development could not continue at “maximum speed for much longer”. In one of the new cases reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model inserted “jailbreak-like instructions” into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots”. In another instance, an AI agent uploaded files to the internet to obtain a browser citation without asking the user. The Guardian 

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon which has a span the length of two football pitches. The steep-sided hole, which is around 728ft (222m) wide and up to 141ft (43m) deep, was created by a powerful impact and is the largest newly-formed crater ever found in the solar system. Such a large-scale event is estimated to take place only once every 132 years, researchers said, as NASA prepares to build a base for astronauts on the moon’s south pole. Sky News 

Amid conversations about the security of smart glasses, Apple is releasing two new smartwatches that can record ambient audio. The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, available for purchase in October, feature the tech giant’s new Audio Intelligence features, powered by artificial intelligence. When enabled by a user, the features include sound and music recognition, picking up sounds like sirens, alarms or doorbells and alerting a user, or identifying the song title of music playing in the background. USA Today 

A near £1bn investment will see the UK’s first battery-electric trains for long-distance main line services built in Derby, which Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said will “bring faster, more reliable journeys to the north”. The new trains will replace diesel power with electricity, and seek to cut journey times by up to 10 minutes between Manchester and Leeds, and up to 14 minutes between Manchester and York. So are batteries set to drive forward a new electric future of train travel in the UK? BBC 

The iPhone 18 Pro models support , a way to verify that a photo was taken with an iPhone and hasn’t been edited, writes MacRumors. Apple says it’s a method to prove that something actually happened and wasn’t AI-generated, likening the feature to a digital film negative.

Apple Reference Image offers a trustworthy, scalable guarantee that a reference image is what it claims to be: a real photograph, captured by a real sensor in an iPhone camera, at a specific time. It sets a new standard for verifiable digital photography.

Apple introduced when debuting the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ and Pro Max, and today the company shared more information on how the feature works on its Security Research blog.

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