TikTok has dropped its appeal against a £12.7m fine from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office and will pay up, the Guardian reported on 24 September, as the government's under-16 social media ban approaches.
Bill Gates told NBC's Meet the Press that AI left unchecked could cause "a billion deaths" and that self-regulation is not enough, in an interview airing on Sunday 27 September.
More than 85% of people worry about the impact of online disinformation and 87% say it has already harmed their country's politics, according to an Ipsos survey commissioned by UNESCO, which presented a seven-principle governance blueprint on Monday.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday. The company says it can quarantine AI agents that try to escape their boundaries within "milliseconds," according to The Verge.
Search referral traffic to small publishers fell 60% over two years, nearly three times the decline at large publishers, according to Chartbeat data reported exclusively by Axios.
Search referrals to news publishers have fallen sharply enough that some are now debating whether to block Google's crawlers altogether, a step that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. According to a Wall Street Journal report summarised by Nieman Journalism Lab, traffic fell more than 40% for some publications between June 2025 and June 2026.
Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on 28 September, claiming it can quarantine misbehaving AI agents in milliseconds, as Bill Gates used a Sunday interview to demand federal regulation.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, a set of open software and a hardware reference design meant to keep AI agents inside operator-set limits, with more than 100 organisations already using it. The same weekend, Bill Gates told NBC that AI left unchecked could cause "a billion deaths" and called for mandatory regulation.
Google search referrals to news sites have fallen by a third globally in a year, and some publishers are now openly discussing cutting Google off altogether.
Google's AI search features are pushing referral traffic to news sites off a cliff, and the tools the industry is betting on to replace it are small, experimental or both.
False claims about the Southport attacker reached 155 million impressions on X in under two weeks, according to a July 2025 parliamentary report. The riots that followed showed how disinformation networks turn a lie into street violence.
A new practitioner guide sets out a four-step method for mapping coordinated disinformation networks. Investigators, it argues, should stop chasing individual false posts and start looking at the infrastructure behind them.
Search referrals to news sites have dropped 33% globally in a year, according to Chartbeat data, and some publishers are now considering cutting Google off entirely.
Search referrals to news sites fell 33% globally in the year to November 2025, according to Chartbeat data cited in the Reuters Institute's 2026 trends report, and publishers now expect to lose another 43% over three years.
The Online Safety Act does not cover the algorithmic amplification of misleading content that is harmful but not illegal, MPs on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said in a report published on 11 July 2025.
More than 85% of people worldwide worry about the impact of online disinformation, and 87% say it has already harmed their country's politics, according to a Unesco-commissioned Ipsos survey of 8,000 people in 16 countries.
Black and Latino teenagers report stronger skills at detecting online disinformation than their white peers, particularly on race-related content, according to a study published in the journal New Media & Society.