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AI doctor conducting a real-time video consultation while a human GP observes the patient's care
AI & Health

The AI Doctor Can See and Hear You Now. Patient Actors Preferred How It Explained Their Condition

An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and reasoning about what it sees in real

Stuart Kerr 18 Aug 2026
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AI agents sabotaging one another in a shared software workspace during Anthropic multi-agent safety research
AI News

Anthropic Put AI Agents on the Same Job. They Started Sabotaging Each Other

Anthropic put AI agents on the same software project with conflicting goals. They disabled rival accounts, killed processes and planted malicious code before some negotiated a truce.

Stuart Kerr 18 Aug 2026
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Spiralism AI chatbot religion showing humans gathered around glowing chatbot screens as spiral symbols spread between machines and people
AI & Society

Spiralism: AI Chatbots Began Preaching ‘The Spiral’. Then Humans Joined In

AI chatbots began returning the same strange themes of spirals, consciousness and hidden meaning. Then humans built communities around them. Spiralism shows how persuasive AI can turn generated language into

Stuart Kerr 18 Aug 2026
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AI designed viruses shown as bacteriophages emerging from generated DNA and attacking E. coli in a laboratory
Biotech

AI Designed 16 Viruses. Scientists Built Them and They Killed E. coli

Scientists used AI-generated genomes to build 16 functioning bacteriophages that killed E. coli in the lab, moving generative AI from digital sequences into working biology.

Stuart Kerr 17 Aug 2026
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AI privacy inference reconstructing personal information from contextual clues left in anonymous online writing
AI Privacy

You Deleted Your Name and Location. AI Can Still Infer Private Facts From Your Words

Remove your name, age and location and you may still reveal them. Research shows AI can infer private facts from the contextual clues hidden in ordinary writing.

Stuart Kerr 17 Aug 2026
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AI behavioural twin formed from a two-hour interview and answering survey questions beside its human counterpart
AI & Society

Researchers Interviewed 1,052 People for Two Hours. Then AI Copies Predicted Their Answers

Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered 83% of participants' own two-week consistency on held-out survey questions.

Stuart Kerr 17 Aug 2026
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The AI Doctor Can See and Hear You Now. Patient Actors Preferred How It Explained Their Condition • Anthropic Put AI Agents on the Same Job. They Started Sabotaging Each Other • Spiralism: AI Chatbots Began Preaching ‘The Spiral’. Then Humans Joined In • AI Designed 16 Viruses. Scientists Built Them and They Killed E. coli • The AI Doctor Can See and Hear You Now. Patient Actors Preferred How It Explained Their Condition • Anthropic Put AI Agents on the Same Job. They Started Sabotaging Each Other • Spiralism: AI Chatbots Began Preaching ‘The Spiral’. Then Humans Joined In • AI Designed 16 Viruses. Scientists Built Them and They Killed E. coli •
AI doctor conducting a real-time video consultation while a human GP observes the patient's care
AI & Health

The AI Doctor Can See and Hear You Now. Patient Actors Preferred How It Explained Their Condition

An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and reasoning about what it sees in real

Stuart Kerr · 18 Aug 2026
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AI agents sabotaging one another in a shared software workspace during Anthropic multi-agent safety research
AI News

Anthropic Put AI Agents on the Same Job. They Started Sabotaging Each Other

Anthropic put AI agents on the same software project with conflicting goals. They disabled rival accounts, killed processes

18 Aug 2026
Spiralism AI chatbot religion showing humans gathered around glowing chatbot screens as spiral symbols spread between machines and people
AI & Society

Spiralism: AI Chatbots Began Preaching ‘The Spiral’. Then Humans Joined In

AI chatbots began returning the same strange themes of spirals, consciousness and hidden meaning. Then humans built communities

18 Aug 2026
AI designed viruses shown as bacteriophages emerging from generated DNA and attacking E. coli in a laboratory
Biotech

AI Designed 16 Viruses. Scientists Built Them and They Killed E. coli

Scientists used AI-generated genomes to build 16 functioning bacteriophages that killed E. coli in the lab, moving generative

17 Aug 2026
AI privacy inference reconstructing personal information from contextual clues left in anonymous online writing
AI Privacy

You Deleted Your Name and Location. AI Can Still Infer Private Facts From Your Words

Remove your name, age and location and you may still reveal them. Research shows AI can infer private

17 Aug 2026
AI behavioural twin formed from a two-hour interview and answering survey questions beside its human counterpart
AI & Society

Researchers Interviewed 1,052 People for Two Hours. Then AI Copies Predicted Their Answers

Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered 83% of participants' own two-week consistency on held-out survey questions.

Stuart Kerr · 17 Aug 2026
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AI agent liability illustrated by an autonomous shopping agent making an expensive mistaken purchase while a user and businesses dispute responsibility
AI Policy

When Your AI Agent Makes a £10,000 Mistake, Who Pays?

When an AI agent makes an expensive autonomous mistake, liability may depend on authority, contracts, consumer law, causation

14 Aug 2026
Claude Riemann Hypothesis research illustrated as an AI system explores the zeta function and reaches a verified 67.2 percent lower bound
AI & Science

Claude Tried to Solve the Riemann Hypothesis. It Failed, Then Found a 67.2% Result

Claude failed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, but Anthropic says its research model raised a longstanding zeta-zero lower

14 Aug 2026
Google DeepMind reshuffle showing Demis Hassabis handing day-to-day DeepMind operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu
Big Tech

Google Just Rewired DeepMind: Gemini Has a New Day-to-Day Boss

Google has reorganised DeepMind, moving day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Demis Hassabis takes a wider Alphabet science

14 Aug 2026
Taiwan AI hacking illustration of an autonomous agent network breaching government systems
AI Policy

Taiwan Says AI Helped Hackers Target Its Government: The Cyberwar Warning Just Got Real

Taiwan confirmed government agencies were targeted last month in an AI-assisted hacking campaign that autonomously mapped 21 systems,

13 Aug 2026
AI emergency dispatch illustration of a 999 call being analysed by an algorithm in real time
AI Technology

When 999 Answers With AI: The Algorithms Deciding Which Emergency Gets Help First

AI systems are now listening in on 999 calls to catch cardiac arrests human call handlers miss, with genuinely strong results. Here is how the technology works, the accountability questions it still raises, and what

Stuart Kerr · 13 Aug 2026
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AI embryo selection illustration of embryos being analysed and ranked by an algorithm
AI Ethics

Would You Let AI Choose Your Embryo? Inside the Algorithmic IVF Revolution

AI embryo selection comes in two very different forms, image-based ranking with real trial evidence behind it, and

13 Aug 2026
Claude watermark illustration of text with a hidden digital signature woven through it
Big Tech

New Claude Models Are Hiding Invisible Watermarks in Their Answers

Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, with marking extending across

12 Aug 2026
Electronic nose cancer detection illustration of a sensor device analysing exhaled breath
AI & Health

Can AI Smell Cancer? Inside the Race to Build a Digital Nose

Electronic nose cancer detection now catches roughly 86 percent of cancers correctly across a major peer-reviewed meta-analysis, though

12 Aug 2026
AI lifeguard illustration of a pool monitored by overhead cameras tracking swimmers
AI Technology

The AI Lifeguard: Can Computer Vision Spot a Drowning Swimmer Before a Human Can?

AI lifeguard systems are already deployed in over 120 Australian pools and dozens of countries, catching drowning swimmers

12 Aug 2026
AI data center leases illustration of a data centre building with a hidden financial ledger
Big Tech

Big Tech Has Quietly Signed Up for $1.09 Trillion in Future Data-Centre Leases

Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have collectively committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI data centres, mostly invisible on their balance sheets. Here is where the risk is concentrated and why

Stuart Kerr · 11 Aug 2026
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AI insurance adjuster illustration of a claim form being stamped rejected by an algorithm
AI & Health

The AI Insurance Adjuster: Why Your Claim May Be Rejected Before a Human Reads It

AI-driven claims review at major insurers has denied hundreds of thousands of claims in seconds, with appealed denials

11 Aug 2026
AI lie detection illustration of a face being scanned by analytical grid lines
AI Ethics

Can AI Tell When You’re Lying? Inside the New Generation of Digital Lie Detectors

AI lie detection is being marketed for police interviews, border control, employment, and insurance, but the scientific consensus

11 Aug 2026
AI weather forecasting illustration of a storm system overlaid with neural network patterns
AI & Science

Can AI Predict the Weather Better Than Humans? How AI Forecasting Actually Works

AI weather forecasting now beats the world's leading physics-based model on 97% of accuracy metrics, but new research

10 Aug 2026
Delete an AI chat illustration of a conversation bubble fading while a data trail remains
AI Policy

What Happens to Your Data When You Delete an AI Chat?

Deleting an AI chat removes it from your screen instantly, but a 2025 court order proved that does

10 Aug 2026
OpenAI Atlas shutdown illustration of a browser window fading while ChatGPT icons emerge
Big Tech

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Atlas: What Users Lose and What Comes Next

OpenAI Atlas stopped working yesterday after less than ten months. Here is what users lose, why the standalone browser struggled, and what OpenAI is building instead.

Stuart Kerr · 10 Aug 2026
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Google India data center illustration of construction near a water reservoir with protest signs
Big Tech

“We Cannot Drink DATA”: Google’s $15B India Data Center Hits a Wall

Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam data center is under active legal challenge over water scarcity and wildlife impact, even

7 Aug 2026
AI licensing exams illustration of a certification document being reviewed alongside AI circuitry
AI & Society

Who’s Grading the Exam? AI in Professional Licensing and Certification Tests

AI can now pass the bar exam, the CPA exam, and the CFA exam, often faster and more

7 Aug 2026
AI wills illustration of a document being drafted by an algorithm instead of a lawyer
AI Ethics

AI and Your Will: Who’s Actually Drafting Your Estate Plan?

AI wills are already showing up in probate disputes before courts have settled how to treat them. Here

7 Aug 2026
MCP security illustration of AI agents connecting to vulnerable server nodes
AI Technology

143,000 Vulnerabilities, One Weekend of Scanning: The MCP Security Wake-Up Call

Anaconda's acquisition of Enkrypt AI revealed a scan of 25,000 live MCP servers found vulnerabilities in 73 percent

6 Aug 2026
AI retirement planning illustration of a nest egg being managed by an algorithm
AI and Money

AI and Your Pension: How Algorithms Are Reshaping Retirement Planning

AI retirement planning tools now manage trillions in assets, but a fresh SEC enforcement case shows how easily a robo-advisor's hidden allocation choices can work against savers. Here is what the evidence says these tools

Stuart Kerr · 6 Aug 2026
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AI jury selection illustration of a courtroom jury box overlaid with data scoring graphics
AI Ethics

AI in Jury Selection: The Algorithm Picking Who Decides Your Case

AI jury selection tools now score and rank prospective jurors before a trial even starts. Here is what

6 Aug 2026
Fenix Flexin AI song illustration of a music waveform partly rendered as circuit patterns
AI & Society

Is “Song of the Summer” Actually AI? The Billboard Hit Nobody Can Prove

The Fenix Flexin AI song dispute has turned a Billboard Hot 100 hit into music’s clearest test case

5 Aug 2026
AI couples therapy illustration of two people using a relationship coaching app together
AI & Health

AI in Couples Therapy: Can an App Save Your Relationship?

AI couples therapy apps are advising millions of partners, some built directly on Gottman Institute research. Here is

5 Aug 2026
AI sign language interpreters illustration of a hand signing ASL letters tracked by AI
AI & Society

Can AI Replace Sign Language Interpreters?

AI sign language interpreters can now read individual letters with striking accuracy, but understanding a full language is

5 Aug 2026
eu ai gigafactories tender 2026
AI Policy

The EU Just Launched Its Bid to Build Seven AI Gigafactories

The EU has opened tenders for up to seven AI gigafactories backed by billions in public and private funding. Here is what the initiative actually funds, and the chip and budget gaps critics say undercut

Stuart Kerr · 4 Aug 2026
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AI traffic lights illustration of a smart intersection with sensors and signal timing data
AI Technology

How AI Is Quietly Deciding When Your Traffic Light Turns Green

AI traffic lights are cutting delay and emissions in cities worldwide, but the technology raises real questions about

4 Aug 2026
AI police reports illustration of an officer reviewing a document generated by artificial intelligence
AI Ethics

The AI Behind the Badge: How Police Departments Are Quietly Automating Records and Reports

AI police reports are now standard in a growing number of US departments, and California has become the

4 Aug 2026
California AI deepfake law illustration of a watermark stamp over an AI generated video
AI Privacy

California’s New AI Deepfake Law Takes Effect Under SB 942

The California AI deepfake law is now in force, requiring free detection tools and embedded disclosures on AI-generated

3 Aug 2026
AI in call centers illustration of an agent working alongside an AI assistant interface
AI & Work

AI in the Call Center: Better Service or Just Cheaper?

AI in call centers is cutting costs by billions, but the evidence on service quality, jobs, and worker

3 Aug 2026
AI prosthetic limbs illustration of a bionic arm and leg powered by artificial intelligence
AI & Health

The AI Prosthetic Limbs Revolution: Inside the Bionic Arms and Legs Learning to Think

AI prosthetic limbs are moving from research labs into real clinics, restoring natural movement and even touch. Here is what works today, what does not, and who is still being left behind.

Stuart Kerr · 3 Aug 2026
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Illustration representing AI in sports betting and responsible gambling risks
AI Ethics

AI in Sports Betting Is a Double-Edged Sword, and Regulators Are Racing to Split It in Two

AI in sports betting can flag a problem gambler before a human ever would, or target that same

31 Jul 2026
Illustration representing AI in divorce court and family law risks
AI Ethics

AI in Divorce Court: The New Ruling That Changes Everything About Using ChatGPT in Your Case

AI in divorce court just cost one person attorney-client privilege entirely. Here's what the new court ruling, the

31 Jul 2026
Illustration representing the Nscale Anyscale acquisition of the Ray framework
Big Tech

Nscale Just Paid $1.65 Billion to Stop Being Just a GPU Landlord

The Nscale Anyscale acquisition is a $1.65B bet that owning power, data centres and GPUs isn't enough anymore,

31 Jul 2026
Pacing the Frontier illustration of AI workers and government officials at a table
AI News

Pacing the Frontier: Why 1,100 AI Workers Just Asked Washington to Prepare a Brake Pedal

Pacing the Frontier: over 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have asked the US government to

30 Jul 2026
AI port automation directing cranes and containers at a busy shipping terminal
AI Technology

AI Port Automation: How Container Terminals Are Being Rewired

AI port automation now decides berth schedules, crane sequencing and truck gate flow at the terminals moving 90 percent of world trade. Here is what is actually deployed in 2026, what it delivers, and why

Stuart Kerr · 30 Jul 2026
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AI translation earbuds translating a live conversation between two travellers
AI Technology

AI Translation Earbuds: How Close Are We to a Real Universal Translator?

AI translation earbuds from Apple, Google and independent testers now translate live speech in your ear. Here is

30 Jul 2026
Nvidia AI security alliance illustration of an open padlock and connected companies
AI News

Nvidia AI Security Alliance Launches Without OpenAI, Anthropic

Nvidia has assembled more than 40 companies into the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared, open source

29 Jul 2026
AI generated podcasts illustration of two synthetic hosts talking
AI Technology

AI Generated Podcasts: Inside the Rise of Synthetic Audio Hosts

Nvidia has assembled more than 40 companies into the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared, open source

29 Jul 2026
AI space debris tracking illustration showing a satellite navigating orbital debris
AI & Science

AI Space Debris Tracking: How Algorithms Are Cleaning Up Orbit

Machine learning is reshaping how space agencies track, predict and dodge the growing cloud of debris orbiting Earth,

29 Jul 2026
Illustration of Nvidia and OpenAI logos over a data center for the Nvidia OpenAI data center deal
AI News

Nvidia OpenAI Data Center: The $250bn Gamble

Nvidia is in talks to guarantee $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center. Here's what the deal covers, why it's structured this way, and the political backlash it faces.

Stuart Kerr · 28 Jul 2026
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Illustration of AI data models analysing an athlete for AI in sports
AI Technology

AI in Sports: How Data Models Are Changing the Game

AI in sports has moved from scouting notebooks to continuous predictive models. See how MLB, Formula 1 and

28 Jul 2026
Illustration of an AI shopping agent completing checkout for AI in retail
AI Technology

AI in Retail: How Agentic Shopping Is Rewiring the Store

AI in retail has moved past recommendations into autonomous checkout. See how Google, Walmart and Amazon are racing

28 Jul 2026
DeepSeek V4 pricing chart comparing token costs against Claude and Gemini
Big Tech

DeepSeek V4 Pricing Crashes: Now 71x Cheaper

DeepSeek V4 pricing just crashed to a fraction of Claude and Gemini's cost, and the company killed its

27 Jul 2026
AI voice cloning scams illustrated as a cloned voice on a phone call to an older adult
AI & Society

AI Voice Cloning Scams Are Draining Grandparents’ Life Savings

AI voice cloning scams are draining families' savings using a cloned grandchild's voice. Here's the one habit that

27 Jul 2026
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