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An agentic AI system has autonomously rediscovered three established traffic laws and identified a previously unreported pattern in urban driving behavior, demonstrating that scientific discovery by AI can extend beyond controlled laboratory environments into complex real-world systems. The system, called TrafficSci, was developed by researchers including Xingyuan Dai and Fei-Yue Wang. It formulates traffic-law discovery […]

SYDNEY. Australia’s federal health department has warned that AI scribes used by doctors to record and transcribe patient consultations operate with “little oversight,” raising urgent questions about privacy, patient consent, and whether the tools are illegally functioning as unregulated medical devices. The warning, contained in federal briefing documents obtained by Guardian Australia, comes as the […]

Alibaba will ban its employees from using Anthropic’s AI coding tool Claude Code, effective July 10, the latest escalation in a bitter feud between two of the world’s most important AI companies. The Chinese technology conglomerate has classified Claude Code as high-risk software after internal security audits flagged alleged embedded code that could identify users […]

Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology, China’s largest chip packaging and testing company, has announced a US$1.15 billion (approximately GBP 890 million) investment in a new advanced packaging facility in Shanghai’s Lingang Special Area, as Beijing accelerates its push for semiconductor self-sufficiency amid escalating US export controls. The two-phase project will be carried out through a subsidiary […]

The AI-driven memory shortage that has pushed up DRAM and NAND prices across the industry is forcing laptop manufacturers to look beyond established suppliers. The latest sign of the shift: Lenovo has started shipping Chinese-made YMTC solid-state drives in its ThinkBook 14 laptops sold through retail channels. The drive in question is a 512-gigabyte M.2 […]

The Trump administration has removed thousands of energy conservation web pages from the Department of Energy’s website as a historic heatwave blankets the eastern United States, a move that follows political backlash over standard energy-saving recommendations. The deletions, first spotted by journalist Jim Lokay and reported by Mediaite, include longstanding guidance pages on air conditioning, […]

Regulatory filings in China have confirmed the battery capacities of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, providing the most concrete specification details yet for the devices expected to launch this September. The 3C (China Compulsory Certification) listings, reported by Gizmochina, show the iPhone 18 Pro carrying a battery rated at 4,056 […]

NHS England will launch a “marathon a month” walking challenge early next year, offering discounts and vouchers to people who walk for around 30 minutes a day, in what could become the largest mass-participation walking programme in the country’s history. The scheme, developed with former Olympic medallist Sir Brendan Foster, founder of the Great North […]

Jeppesen ForeFlight, the Colorado-based aviation technology company, has introduced ForeFlight Airflow, an artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for aviation safety that aims to reduce flight plan data errors without replacing human pilots. Unlike general-purpose generative AI, ForeFlight Airflow combines AI with flight-planning data, operational records, and aviation regulations. The system evaluates operational context before generating […]

The CAPTCHA, that ubiquitous checkbox asking “I’m not a robot”, has been a fixture of the web for two decades. But a growing body of evidence suggests it is no longer fit for purpose. In 2024, researchers at ETH Zurich achieved 100 percent accuracy on Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 using a modified YOLOv8 model. In 2026, […]