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The bird is a beautiful silver-gray, and as she dies twitching in the lasernet I’m grateful for two things: First, that she didn’t make a sound. Second, that this will be the very last time. They’re called corpse doves—because the…
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Job titles of the future: Breast biomechanic
Twenty years ago, Joanna Wakefield-Scurr was having persistent pain in her breasts. Her doctor couldn’t diagnose the cause but said a good, supportive bra could help. A professor of biomechanics, Wakefield-Scurr thought she could do a little research and find…
Measles cases are rising. Other vaccine-preventable infections could be next.
There’s a measles outbreak happening close to where I live. Since the start of this year, 34 cases have been confirmed in Enfield, a northern borough of London. Most of those affected are children under the age of 11. One…
No AI, no raise: Accenture links promotions to tech adoption
Accenture has begun monitoring how employees use its artificial intelligence tools and will factor this into promotion decisions to boost adoption across its workforce. Senior managers have been told leadership roles require “regular adoption” of AI. The move follows 11,000…
Prof.ai to founder.ai
When Covid-19 struck in 2020, Sashikumaar Ganeshan at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore built a model to predict the spread of the contagion, marking his deep immersion into AI technologies. He later founded ZenteiQ.ai to develop scientific foundational model…
Govt plans to create ‘complete AI stack’ to power innovation: Jayant Chaudhary
A complete or full AI stack refers to an end-to-end collection of hardware, software, data, and services required to design, train, deploy, and manage artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in the national capital, Chaudhary, minister…
AI sovereignty doesn’t imply digital isolation: Yotta’s Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta, MD and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said AI sovereignty does not mean isolation or complete self-reliance but strategic control. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026, he noted global interdependence in technology is inevitable. Sovereignty means no…
Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children
Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and state trials that seek to hold them responsible for harming children’s mental health. The lawsuits have come from school districts, local, state and the federal government as…
Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users
Large language models (LLMs) have been championed as tools that could democratize access to information worldwide, offering knowledge in a user-friendly interface regardless of a person’s background or location. However, new research from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) suggests…
Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models
By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they’re far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as certain tones, personalities, biases, and moods. However, it’s not obvious exactly…