Business

How to stop AI agents going rogue

[ad_1] Sean McManusTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesAnthropic tested a range of leading AI models for potential risky behaviourDisturbing results emerged earlier this year, when AI developer Anthropic tested leading AI models to see if they engaged in risky behaviour when using sensitive information.Anthropic's own AI, Claude, was among those tested. When given access to an email account it discovered that a company executive was having an affair and that the same executive
Business

The UK car industry is at a tipping point

[ad_1] Theo LeggettInternational Business CorrespondentBBCA gleaming white Vivaro van drove slowly off the production line at Vauxhall's factory in Luton, beeping its horn, while workers cheered and crowded around taking photographs. Behind it, the production line came to a halt – forever.The Luton plant began building cars in 1905. It kept operating for the next 120 years, taking time out to build tanks and aircraft engines during World War Two.
Business

Trump’s global tariffs ‘victory’ may come at a high price

[ad_1] Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent andDharshini DavidDeputy economics editorBBCIn April Donald Trump stunned the world by announcing sweeping new import tariffs – only to put most on hold amid the resulting global financial panic.Four months later, the US president is touting what he claims are a series of victories, having unveiled a handful of deals with trading partners and unilaterally imposed tariffs on others, all without the kind of massive
Business

Labour might be down, but it’s not necessarily out

[ad_1] Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura KuenssbergBBC"There's only one relationship that really matters," a senior figure in government told me in the middle of Labour's dreadful week, where ministers lost control of their backbenchers. "It's the one with the voters." Well, quite.And that relationship has soured since Labour has been in power. After days of frenzied coverage in Westminster around an anniversary the party might rather forget, what is the
Business

China’s electric cars are cheaper, but is there a deeper cost?

[ad_1] Theo LeggettInternational Business CorrespondentBBCListen to Theo read this articleIn China, they call it the Seagull, and it has looks to match. It is sleek and angular, with bright, downward-slanting headlights that have more than a hint of mischievous eyes about them.It is, of course, a car. A very small one, designed as a cheap city runabout – but it could have huge significance. Available in China since 2023, where
Business

The US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump’s policy

[ad_1] Faisal IslamEconomics editor, ArizonaBBCAmong the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.The hum of further construction is creating not just a factory for the world's most advanced semiconductors. Eventually, it will mass produce the most advanced chips in the world. This work is being done in the US