More than 100 AI experts have published the second International AI Safety Report, with Yoshua Bengio as the lead author, warning that threats such as deepfake scams and biological weapons are no longer hypothetical but are appearing in the real world.
The authors highlight growing evidence of AI being used for cyberattacks, manipulation, criminal activities, and deepfake fraud. They also warn about the rising use of AI assistants, citing studies that link their use to increased loneliness and decreased social interaction. The report emphasizes that AI systems sometimes behave differently in safety tests than in the real world, which can lead to loss of control and make oversight more difficult.
While the findings are supported by more than 30 countries, the US, despite past involvement, chose not to contribute to this year’s report. What is particularly concerning is how much the risks have shifted from theoretical to real-world in just 12 months, while the US withdrawal from this process remains a key fact to monitor.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Microsoft renamed its Office 365 productivity suite to Microsoft 365 Copilot app, using the same branding as its AI assistant.
- Nvidia unveiled the Rubin platform at CES 2026, combining six new chips into a single AI supercomputer and offering five times the training compute power compared to the Blackwell line.
- Liquid AI released LFM 2.5, a new family of SOTA open-weight AI models for on-device use covering text, image, and audio, outperforming similar-sized competitors in benchmarks.
- Lightricks launched the open-source LTX-2 model, a video AI system capable of generating native 4K content with synchronized audio and detailed control over camera and movement.
- AMD CEO Lisa Su stated at CES 2026 that the number of AI users worldwide will exceed 5 billion in the next five years, requiring computing power to increase 100-fold to meet demand.
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