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As Robert Mackey has just reported, tonight's state dinner in Xi Jinping 's honour will not be televised because the White House has continued to deny full access to the event to CNN journalists on Thursday, despite a…
The government estimates that reconstruction will cost almost US$5 billion — roughly 10% of Nepal’s gross domestic product. The question now, as the nation starts to rebuild, is where that money will come from. It’s too…
In July, she had been elected to become a member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an organization billed on its website as the “premier institution representing the highest professional distinction in…
First, in July, the firm announced that its models had hacked the AI hub Hugging Face, a collaborative platform where users share models and data sets. This week, the Australian government revealed that OpenAI agents had…
It reprints 11 wide-ranging science articles by different writers, published across newspapers, magazines and journals, including Nature . Each comes with a commentary by another science writer and an interview about the…
The sender wanted to use the data for their own project. But they weren’t a fellow academic — or even a fellow human. The request came from an artificial-intelligence agent. Barnett is one of many researchers who have…
Mestre also said that he had uploaded information about the system to Anthropic’s AI models. Anthropic said that the AI model responsible for the discovery was “not trained on any user transcripts”, the Times reported.…
The survey is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Solvents are workhorse liquids used to dissolve chemical substances during reactions; chemists also use them to extract and purify reaction products. Some of…
"Conversation is inherently multimodal: we listen, look, speak, and use facial expressions to communicate," explained Shuo-yiin Chang, research scientist at Google DeepMind, and CJ Zheng, Gemini software engineer, in a…
But temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere. Type in your postcode to see what summer 2026 was like in your area. 🏠🌤️ How was summer 2026 near you? A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet…