The World Health Organization said on Wednesday there were encouraging signs measures to contain an Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic ​of Congo were gaining ground, though it warned the outbreak ‌was "far from over."

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Claude Mythos’s apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility

Nearly half of all polarization research focuses on the United States, yet many American findings are global outliers. A globally equitable understanding requires bridging traditional social science with new approaches leveraging social media and AI.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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The incident should be a turning point in the seriousness with which Congress addresses AI governance, argues Public Citizen's J.B. Branch.

AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.

Eli Talbert discusses how the systems and algorithms enabling agencies' decisions can shape outcomes through design choices rather than formal rules.

Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company’s claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X’s public platform without any sign of it being moderated, meaning the clip could be viewed within seconds by anyone with an account. Continue reading...

A study found that Trump administration NIH grant cuts led to termination of 118 trials studying cancer, 97 studying infectious diseases and 140 testing new treatments.

AGI — a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can — could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time o...

Lawyers for Dr Susan Monarez say only the president can remove her from her job running the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Amnesty International has launched a new briefing calling on governments to rein in the power of Big Tech companies in order to safeguard human rights.

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Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text, or on social media. Accordin...

Anthropic has cut off one of its biggest competitors, revoking OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models.

La investigadora que alzó la voz en Google y hoy lidera la ética en Hugging Face defiende una IA centrada en el daño previsible y no solo en el beneficio. Más información: Kay Firth-Butterfield: "Esta...

AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

Listen to the narrated version (AI-generated) As I write this article in the context of my BlueDot impact AI safety AI governance project, Spain, Portugal and parts of France are grappling with the co...

Exploring the future of AI, cybersecurity, and knowledge sharing

A podcast discussion with scholars J. Nathan Matias, Emma Pierson, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

AI is showing some bright red flags: behavior described by researchers as self-preserving and deceptive.

Tech companies are focusing on AI products over research, say industry experts, who are sounding the alarm about safety.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

An aide to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking more information about three vaccines recommended by a panel of outside experts last month, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and two sources familiar with the situation.

The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

The U.N. World Food Program plans to cut its staff by a third. Donations from Europe and Britain have flagged, and cuts by the Trump administration forced the humanitarian organization to downsize.

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Abstract. We investigate the probabilities of triggering climate tipping points under five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and how they are altered by including the additional carbon emissions th...

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Myanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, even as foreign support becomes more difficult to secure.

A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

Donald Trump's second term has brought "historic changes", says EU President Ursula von der Leyen. In our interview, she explains how Europe must respond.

Scientific researchers on Wednesday sued to secure reinstatement of National Institutes of Health grants that funded research on topics like LGBTQ health, COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy canceled by Republican President Donald Trump's administration as part of an "ideological purge."

Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.