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AI collaborating in spotting Breast Cancer
A new Nature Cancer study explores whether AI can safely step into one of healthcare’s most critical workflows: breast cancer screening.
Does AI make things up?
A recent experiment by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows how quickly false data can enter the narrative.
Watching your clicks
Many organisations have realised that the missing piece in their AI jigsaw is the knowledge and understanding in their employees heads.
SNAP and you are gone.
Evan Spiegal, CEO of SNAP announced 1,000 jobs gone (16% of staff), $500 million stripped out of the cost base, and a repeated insistence that this is not panic but precision.
From shoes to GPU's
Allbirds, once a poster child for ethical consumerism, merino wool minimalism and B‑Corp virtue calmly announced it has sold its shoes, its brand and, effectively, its former self this week to become NewBird AI, a GPU‑as‑a‑Service operation armed with $50 million of convertible financing.
It isn't what you have, it is how you use it.
Stanford issued their 2026 AI Index recently, a full 423 pages of AI related data, from attendance at AI conferences, AI patents by geography to Human vs AI performance benchmarks.
When your AI needs a moral Board of Advisors
Last month, Anthropic, the developer of Claude did something unusual for Silicon Valley and hosted a two‑day moral summit.
Imagine if you could predict heart failure before it develops.
The researchers at Oxford researchers have developed an AI tool that can predict heart failure at least five years before it clinically develops, using routine cardiac CT scans already performed in the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
Leaders are moving faster than their organisations
Gallup’s latest research exposes a growing AI adoption gap inside organisations where AI tools are already available.
Ethical AI Governance in China
Their intent is to embed mandatory ethical governance into AI activities conducted in China, where it may pose risks to Human Dignity, Public Order, Life and Heath, Privacy and Data Security, Social Fairness or Sustainable Development.
OpenAI suggest a new Industrial Policy
One that will 'prepare democratic societies for the transiition towards superintelligence'.
Doing your taxes is hard enough, then the AI scams make it worse.
The NY Attorney General, Letitia James, issued a consumer alert last week (on April 1, but not an Aprils Fool) to remind tax payers of the AI driven scams that they may fall foul of.
Can Sam Altman be trusted?
This is the question that The New Yorker asked in their latest investigative article.
Imagine a model which predicts our brain activity.
One that will open doors to more accurate neuroscience research and an understanding of how cognition works.
Have you ever had one of those stomach churning moments.
When you realise you have deleted (with no backup) the project you have been working on, and there is no way back.
Imagine if you could transport yourself back in time ...
... and talk to a Victorian. Someone who thinks Darwin is a disruptive thinker, and who is experiencing the Railways as a new transport method.
We all know AI works to please us, right?
In a recently published article in Science, reasarchers studied AI “sycophancy”, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users, even when the user’s behavior is unethical, harmful, or socially inappropriate.
Is AI the answer to polarised views?
Extreme political views and negative feelings towards others who disagree politically have become a threat to current democracies.
Rent-a-human
What do you do if you are an AI Agent and you need a human to do a physical task for you?