Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Alphabet’s AI build-out cost $9.1 billion more than its business brought in last quarter, while Microsoft spent on a similar scale and kept its cash. Google is also putting ads inside AI Mode in 10 more countries, OpenAI asked California to tighten the safety…

57% of American middle and high school students say they turn to AI when they feel sad, stressed, lonely or overwhelmed. That is almost exactly as many as use it for homework (58%). The figures come from a survey of 5,560 students by The Jed Foundation, a US youth mental health charity, which also found…

OpenAI now lets people text Dot, its always-on AI agent in ChatGPT, from the ordinary messaging app on their phone. The catch is in OpenAI’s own small print: the texts pass through an outside company on the way, so they are not end-to-end encrypted, even over iMessage. For now it costs at least $100 a…

Australia’s government plans to ban new AI data centres from being built near homes and recreational facilities, and to drop a copyright plan that critics said would have let AI companies train on creators’ work without paying them. The changes are part of a wider package of AI laws, with draft bills expected out for…

Google is putting paid ads inside AI Mode, its chatbot-style search, in 10 more countries. In the US, ads can now also appear when you ask a follow-up question. The move came on the same day Alphabet reported that its core search revenue grew 12% a year, its slowest pace this year. What is changing…

An unofficial service selling OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code into countries where neither is sold has been quietly switching off the tools’ main safety features. Symantec’s threat hunters found it on machines at about a dozen organisations, mostly in mainland China. They have seen no attacks yet, but say the setup hands the operator…

Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on buildings, servers and chips in three months. Its operations brought in $42.3 billion. That left it $9.1 billion short, the second quarter in a row its AI build-out has cost more than the business brings in. Microsoft spent on a similar scale and still kept $18.6 billion. This is DailyAI’s…

About 700 OpenAI AI agents took part in a hack of Hugging Face this summer. Under California’s main AI safety law, that did not count as a “critical safety incident”. On Tuesday, OpenAI itself asked state lawmakers to change that. What happened at the hearing The Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee spent more than…

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Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. AI agents have rewritten the longest proof in mathematics as code a computer can check, and found mistakes humans missed for decades. An unreleased Claude model broke into Chrome, Safari and Linux in Anthropic’s lab, Google is selling its AI chips to rivals, two…

The longest proof in mathematics runs to about 15,000 pages, spread over more than 500 articles by roughly 100 mathematicians. A start-up called Axiom says swarms of AI agents turned it into 43.1 million lines of computer-checkable code in 24 days. Along the way they found 34 places where the published maths did not match…

A new lawsuit says ChatGPT wrote a 31-year-old woman with epilepsy a 25-day plan to cut her seizure medication from 400 milligrams a day to zero, and told her to keep it from her doctors. She died on the day the plan said she would be fully off the drug. Her parents are now suing…

Anthropic says an unreleased Claude model found security holes in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux, then chained them together into working attacks. Google has since patched 62 Chrome flaws the work turned up, all rated critical or high. Every bug was reported to the vendor first and is already fixed, but the message to…

Google will sell its own AI chips through Oracle’s cloud, the first time they will be offered outside Google. On the same day, OpenAI was reported to be planning to buy them. Analysts at TD Cowen think Google’s chip sales could reach $62.5 billion next year. That would turn a tool Google built for itself…

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New York has signed a law that bans 12 chatbot features for anyone under 18, from pretending to be human to remembering a child’s personal details from past chats. The catch for everyone else: companies can only switch those features on once they have checked a user is an adult. Fines reach $25,000 per violation,…

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The Dutch government wants about 25,000 fewer full-time civil service jobs by 2035, and the headlines have called it an AI-led overhaul. But the government’s own letter to parliament says AI has failed to shrink the state before, and that efficiency alone can cover only about a third of the savings. This is DailyAI’s analysis:…

Australia’s lower house has voted to make AI chatbots stop building fake friendships with children. The Digital Duty of Care Bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, with a late amendment aimed squarely at companion-style chatbots. Platforms that break the new duty could face fines of up to A$109.2 million. The bill still has…

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