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A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
The CIA’s ‘Ghost Murmur’ supposedly found a downed US airman by detecting his heartbeat from afar, but physicists say the heart’s magnetic field is far too weak to read at any distance.
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says OpenAI’s next model is being designed by another model, a sign, he argues, that superintelligence is just two years away.
A senior UK minister has warned that AI-driven job losses could make the welfare state unaffordable within a decade, echoing Anthropic’s prediction of mass white-collar unemployment.
OpenAI says one of its general-purpose reasoning models has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, a result validated by mathematicians but one that still leaves the deeper problem unsolved.
Lloyds Bank has used IBM quantum hardware to successfully flag a money mule hidden in transaction data, an early sign quantum computing could sharpen banks’ fraud defences.
Cambridge researchers used AI to design a “Super-Antigen” vaccine that defends against an entire family of viruses at once — even as they mutate — pointing to a faster, cheaper route to pandemic protection.
Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit software flaws, including Linux kernel vulnerabilities, alarming its own red team and UK government evaluators. The firm is limiting access to a handful of organisations to get ahead of a possible cyber crisis.
Objection, an AI platform backed by Peter Thiel, will score every journalist in the world on credibility — promising cheaper redress while alarming those who rely on anonymous sources.
A non-developer built a production-grade autonomous trading system in a day using Claude Code — exposing how thousands of identical AI models could converge and destabilise global markets faster than regulators can react.
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