A Chinese university with close links to the People’s Liberation Army has purchased two of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial intelligence processors despite being subject to US export restrictions, according to procurement records,
China is no longer treating robotics as merely an extension of artificial intelligence. Its universities, manufacturers, investors and startups are building an integrated ecosystem in which physics, mechanics, materials, AI and manufacturing
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American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that transformed scientists’ ability to study the brain
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands,
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Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who helped prevent a flydubai passenger aircraft from crashing after his copilot attacked him in the cockpit, has described how he fought through severe injuries to
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David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company and publicly criticised its approach to artificial intelligence safety. In an article published by The Atlantic, Robinson argued that OpenAI
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The alleged group rape of a Cornell University student has become one of the most serious scandals in the 161-year history of the elite New York institution, while also exposing a legal
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Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
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Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after completing the fastest journey by a US spacecraft to the station. The crew, commanded by NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, reached the
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OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence models, linking a core cluster of the activity to Chinese AI startup Moonshot
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Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, describing it as its most advanced artificial intelligence model yet, with major improvements in software engineering, cybersecurity and complex professional work. Google plans to introduce
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China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
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Google is taking its first major step towards putting artificial intelligence computing infrastructure in orbit, launching a prototype satellite carrying four of its custom Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. The mission, part
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Researchers in Europe are developing a 3D bioprinting platform that can create living bone, fat and muscle tissue by combining stem cells with genetically engineered microorganisms. The five-year PRISM-LT project, coordinated by
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Passengers aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv intervened in the cockpit after the aircraft began losing altitude and one pilot was allegedly stabbed by the other, according to testimonies reported by
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Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
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