“The deadliest poisons don’t kill you fast. They keep you alive just long enough to call the sickness normal.” -- Mark Twain
by John H. & Nisha Whitehead
Days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump flooded his Truth Social account with AI-generated fantasies of himself commanding armies of giant, red-eyed robots.
Dave DeCamp, antiwar.com
More than 100 US military advisers are in Saudi Arabia assisting Riyadh with intelligence and targeting support for its renewed war in Yemen, CNN reported on Thursday.
One of CNN’s sources, an unnamed US official, put the number of US troops assisting in the effort at 200 and said they were part of a new joint task force that was formed in recent weeks as the war in Yemen began to escalate.
by Norman Solomon, antiwar.com
Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug - rentosertib - was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa clinical trial, they applied six proteomic profiling "aging clocks" among 42 participants. All six detected reductions in predicted biological age, whereas the placebo group showed little change or slight increases. The most pronounced and consistent effects emerged around week four of treatment.
A new strategy aims to prepare to “deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment” by 2035.
By Patrick Tucker, Science & Technology Editor, defenseone.com
Government fraud has drained hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars while Washington did nothing to stop it.
A new nationwide poll just tested whether Americans still want that fraud stopped using artificial intelligence.
The results show a shocking share of Democrats breaking from their party's script on AI fraud hunting.
Flights have been grounded throughout Britain after an air traffic control technical failure.
More than 1,000 flights were cancelled across the country on Tuesday following the third major outage in three years.
Airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh experienced disruption and tens of thousands of passengers saw their flights scrapped or delayed.
Criminal gangs are using artificial intelligence to turn regular school photos into fake child abuse images and then extort schools for cash, experts warn.
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At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines’ improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles.
Two days after the Games ended, the People's Liberation Army's official newspaper drew its own conclusions from the show. The PLA Daily called for researchers to accelerate the transfer of cutting-edge technologies from laboratories to military training grounds for robotic “combatants.”