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The UK’s G20 presidency will push Andy Burnham to the centre of the global stage. What will he use it for? | Michael Jacobs

Among the many crucial decisions Andy Burnham has to make over the next few weeks, one has gone almost completely unremarked: what Britain’s priorities will be when it assumes the presidency of the G20 next year. Burnham has said he wants to concentrate on domestic policy. But with the world in turmoil, chairing the group of the world’s largest economies will be one of his most important responsibilities. The last time the UK chaired the forum was in 2009, when Gordon Brown presided over the rescue of the global…

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Generative AI and misinformation: a scoping review of the role of generative AI in the generation, detection, mitigation, and impact of misinformation

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Recommendations for the Development and Implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools in Pediatric Clinical Care: Policy Statement

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House speaker calls early recess before midterms amid AI regulation frenzy

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A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?

An image of Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, Georgia, kissing a man who was not her husband in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it was fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people. “I think this is a sad commentary about where we are in our democracy, and where we are in our political discourse,” Motley Broom said. “It also seeks to reinforce really tired stereotypes about women in leadership.” Six years ago, when Motley Broom first took…

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Comparative hydro-climatic forecasting of reservoir storage and cross-scale bathymetric evaluation in Mingde and Shihmen reservoirs

Accurate reservoir storage forecasting is critical for water security and risk management, yet most data-driven approaches emphasize short-term predictive skill without accounting for long-term changes in storage capacity caused by sedimentation. This study addresses this gap by examining whether monthly, hydro-climatic machine learning forecasts of effective water storage capacity can be meaningfully evaluated against observed, multi-year capacity changes derived from bathymetric surveys. Forecasting performanc…

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Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal, called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, following a White House luncheon with top tech executives. “It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really ⁠is a form of protection,” Trump said. Trump also signed an e…

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Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation

Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said to Kristen Welker, the NBC Meet the Press host. “And that ha…

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Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit

Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines” as he addressed global concerns over the dangers of artificial intelligence at the start of a three-day visit to France. “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for people to be educated in ethical discernment, capable of seeing what is morally right,” he said in a speech at the Élysée. At a second address on Friday, the 71-year-old head of the Cat…

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Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI when he makes his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and “tech bros” to solve the problem. When he addresses the faithful on the final day of the gathering in Brighton, the party leader will call for a global pause on super-intelligent AI, comparing it to a nuclear arms race that could result in technology that could “destroy us a…

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Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Science: Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Frameworks

Digital transformation in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs is accelerating as global submissions grow in complexity and traditional document-based workflows reach their limits. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly natural language processing (NLP), is increasingly being explored to support regulatory data management, document preparation, and decision support activities. This review examines AI adoption across pharmaceutical regulatory science, including initiatives from major regulatory agencies, AI-supp…

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Europe Proposes a New Test for Big Tech: Prove Children Are Safe by Design

Europe wants child safety built into digital platforms and the biggest providers to prove it. The proposed EU KIDS Act would combine a minimum age of 15 for independent social media accounts with curbs on addictive features and AI companions that create emotional dependency, putting platform design at the heart of online child protection.

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Silicon Valley shouldn’t self-regulate on AI safety, Cohere CEO says

TORONTO — Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere, says a "small group of companies in Silicon Valley" shouldn’t be left in charge of ensuring AI is safe.

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The impact of roadside advertising density on driver visual attention and safety in Kuwait: An AI-driven analysis of simulator and eye-tracking data

Objectives Driver distraction associated with roadside advertising remains a significant road safety concern, yet the precise physiological markers distinguishing stimulus-driven distraction from baseline driving are complex to isolate. This study quantified the impact of roadside advertising density on driver cognitive load and visual attention using a high-fidelity driving simulator and wearable eye-tracking technology. Methods A cohort of 60 licensed drivers navigated simulated environments under three contin…

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As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace

We can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has declared that fears over artificial intelligence were all a hoax dreamed up by conspiracy theorists. Obviously that includes the top bods at Anthropic and its competitors, who all called for a coordinated global slowdown while the industry works out how to mitigate the risks. Still, good to know the tech bros are just fantasists and space cadets at heart. All that was needed to keep humanity safe and well, The Donald insisted, was a p…