Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft, waded into the ethical AI debate, presenting a blueprint for governing the technology which argues humans should remain in control of systems and deployment of safeguards in cases where it is used for critical infrastructure.

A quartet of regional Canadian authorities joined a broader government probe into OpenAI, as the nation became the latest to question the privacy and ethical credentials of the company’s AI-powered ChatGPT product.

Google-owned YouTube announced mobile-only video feature Stories will begin to be wound down in June, with the company trying to push content creators towards short-form and community alternatives.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and European Commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton (pictured) struck an initial agreement on developing voluntary rules on AI, ahead of EU regulation on the technology being finalised.