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August 21, 2026, 02:16 PM - 6 min read
AI can check whether a hunch about one sign or word holds up across an entire archive in minutes instead of years. It can spot repeated sequences a human eye would miss, and restore damaged or fragmentary inscriptions by predicting likely missing characters.
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August 20, 2026, 12:43 PM - 7 min read
Bacteriophages could potentially be used to treat bacterial infections, including those that are becoming harder to treat with antibiotics. But advances in biological design also create new challenges for biosecurity.
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August 18, 2026, 02:19 PM - 8 min read
The evidence of your instructions to your AI agent needs to be verifiable by different systems at each step as the agent carries out a task. Otherwise, how do you prove that the agent did – or did not do – what you told it to?
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August 17, 2026, 11:59 AM - 9 min read
Lawsuits filed and settled in 2025-26 have alleged that interactions with language models such as ChatGPT led to teen suicidal behaviour and tragic losses, highlighting that commercial chatbots lack effective guardrails and crisis protocols.
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August 16, 2026, 02:12 PM - 6 min read
As AI-generated content becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from human writing, detecting disinformation requires more than simply searching for telltale words. It requires understanding how conversations work, how they are manipulated, and when someone is trying to quietly steer them off course.
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August 10, 2026, 01:38 PM - 6 min read
Move beyond the current generation of air traffic control technology by increasing the role of AI systems – including providing real-time decision support for atcos. And if AI agents are to be trusted, their recommendations must be presented in ways that controllers can quickly make sense of, and decide if they are appropriate.
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August 4, 2026, 12:36 PM - 8 min read
Al-Qaida is more deliberate and thinks in decades. The Islamic State moves quickly and seeks immediate effect.
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August 3, 2026, 01:30 PM - 6 min read
Influencers can appear familiar and sincere, while AI-generated doctors can look like qualified professionals. Neither familiarity nor the appearance of expertise tells us whether a medical claim is accurate.
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July 31, 2026, 12:07 PM - 7 min read
The coming legal fight, should it arise, will not be over whether the government can exert the level of control it already has. The fight will be about how governments can wield this control responsibly. The best case at this point is that this fight takes place in the open, with public input, through lawful legislative processes.
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July 30, 2026, 03:21 PM - 4 min read
The study found that 89 per cent of Indian employees say AI has positively impacted their day-to-day work by helping them perform routine tasks more efficiently.
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July 26, 2026, 02:49 PM - 3 min read
A report found that 86 per cent of respondents were highly confident that AI would meaningfully change how their teams operate over the next 12 months, with an average confidence score of 4.4 out of 5.
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July 17, 2026, 01:52 PM - 8 min read
Social media abuse is no longer an isolated phenomenon but a persistent law-and-order issue. The rapid spread of fabricated content, morphed images, abusive campaigns and coordinated character assassination can cause lasting damage to individuals, institutions and public discourse. Governments cannot simply ignore such developments.
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