A study of UK university policies found many were difficult to locate and argued that rules presented as educational often centred on monitoring and discipline. The findings reflect the researcher’s
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Researchers used unencrypted feedback from ordinary Wi-Fi hardware to recognise enrolled people without requiring them to carry a device. The headline accuracy was 99.5%, but the experiment's limitations reveal exactly what this surveillance technique can
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A carbonised Herculaneum scroll has been read across its surviving length without being opened. Here is how X-rays,
A shoe-mounted AI sensor classified four movement modes with 95.4 per cent accuracy while using just 86 microwatts
Claude Opus 4.6 faltered as benchmark tables widened, while classical classifiers stayed stable or improved. The preprint exposes
A GPT-4 interviewer more than tripled false memories in a study of 200 simulated crime witnesses, and the
AI audited 2,500 published papers. Humans confirmed 263 flagged mistakes, while testing showed automated scientific review still misses serious errors.
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Researchers found internal routing signals that can expose hallucinated answers and suspect tokens in two AI models, but
Researchers manipulated just 10% of a simulated AI-agent community. Arguments stored in memory spread to untreated agents and
An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and
Anthropic put AI agents on the same software project with conflicting goals. They disabled rival accounts, killed processes
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 belief.
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Scientists used AI-generated genomes to build 16 functioning bacteriophages that killed E. coli in the lab, moving generative
Remove your name, age and location and you may still reveal them. Research shows AI can infer private
Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered
When an AI agent makes an expensive autonomous mistake, liability may depend on authority, contracts, consumer law, causation
Claude failed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, but Anthropic says its research model raised a longstanding zeta-zero lower bound to 67.2%.
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Google has reorganised DeepMind, moving day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Demis Hassabis takes a wider Alphabet science
Taiwan confirmed government agencies were targeted last month in an AI-assisted hacking campaign that autonomously mapped 21 systems,
AI systems are now listening in on 999 calls to catch cardiac arrests human call handlers miss, with
AI embryo selection comes in two very different forms, image-based ranking with real trial evidence behind it, and
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, with marking extending across Claude, Claude Code, the API and other products. Here is how it works, why it happened now,
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Electronic nose cancer detection now catches roughly 86 percent of cancers correctly across a major peer-reviewed meta-analysis, though
AI lifeguard systems are already deployed in over 120 Australian pools and dozens of countries, catching drowning swimmers
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have collectively committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI
AI-driven claims review at major insurers has denied hundreds of thousands of claims in seconds, with appealed denials
AI lie detection is being marketed for police interviews, border control, employment, and insurance, but the scientific consensus on whether it actually works has not changed in decades. Here is what the evidence shows.
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AI weather forecasting now beats the world's leading physics-based model on 97% of accuracy metrics, but new research
Deleting an AI chat removes it from your screen instantly, but a 2025 court order proved that does
OpenAI Atlas stopped working yesterday after less than ten months. Here is what users lose, why the standalone
Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam data center is under active legal challenge over water scarcity and wildlife impact, even
AI can now pass the bar exam, the CPA exam, and the CFA exam, often faster and more consistently than human candidates. Here is how the bodies that write these exams are responding, and what
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AI wills are already showing up in probate disputes before courts have settled how to treat them. Here
Anaconda's acquisition of Enkrypt AI revealed a scan of 25,000 live MCP servers found vulnerabilities in 73 percent
AI retirement planning tools now manage trillions in assets, but a fresh SEC enforcement case shows how easily
AI jury selection tools now score and rank prospective jurors before a trial even starts. Here is what
The Fenix Flexin AI song dispute has turned a Billboard Hot 100 hit into music’s clearest test case yet for whether a track built with
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AI couples therapy apps are advising millions of partners, some built directly on Gottman Institute research. Here is
AI sign language interpreters can now read individual letters with striking accuracy, but understanding a full language is
The EU has opened tenders for up to seven AI gigafactories backed by billions in public and private
AI traffic lights are cutting delay and emissions in cities worldwide, but the technology raises real questions about
AI police reports are now standard in a growing number of US departments, and California has become the first state to require disclosure when they are used. Here is how the technology works and what
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The California AI deepfake law is now in force, requiring free detection tools and embedded disclosures on AI-generated
AI in call centers is cutting costs by billions, but the evidence on service quality, jobs, and worker
AI prosthetic limbs are moving from research labs into real clinics, restoring natural movement and even touch. Here
AI in sports betting can flag a problem gambler before a human ever would, or target that same
AI in divorce court just cost one person attorney-client privilege entirely. Here's what the new court ruling, the tightening bar rules, and the judges already using AI mean for anyone going through a split.
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The Nscale Anyscale acquisition is a $1.65B bet that owning power, data centres and GPUs isn't enough anymore,
Pacing the Frontier: over 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have asked the US government to
AI port automation now decides berth schedules, crane sequencing and truck gate flow at the terminals moving 90
AI translation earbuds from Apple, Google and independent testers now translate live speech in your ear. Here is
