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Disaster Data
The EU Joint Research Centre has just built a dataset that covers over 3,000 disaster events across 175 countries between 2014 and 2024, spanning 26 disaster types and accounting for around 80% of global economic losses.
X user tricks Grok using morse code
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot.
AI better in the ER room
If your image of an ER room is of complex, crazy, life threatening and changing decisions happening in the moment, you are not wrong.
Can Governments stop AI models?
Well yes. As the US Government has demonstrated with the latest Anthropic Mythos release.
Will the US midterms be driven by AI?
A recent NBC News article highlights how AI-generated content is quietly but rapidly entering political campaigns, especially in the run-up to the 2026 midterms.
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.