May 11, 2026
(Bloomberg) – South Korea’s military is exploring a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor Co. to potentially deploy robotics to the front lines as Seoul accelerates investment in AI-powered, unmanned systems to tackle a deepening troop shortage.The defense ministry told Bloomberg … Read More
May 11, 2026
(AP) – Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that’s moored across the ocean comes … Read More
May 8, 2026
(NYT) – This is not simply a matter of affordability, the buzzword so often invoked to explain why people are choosing to have smaller families. Government support for parents can help, but overall, people are having fewer children both in … Read More
May 7, 2026
(AFP via Yahoo!) – As evening falls in Fiji’s capital, a steady stream of people approaches a makeshift clinic that is a first line of defence against one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics. In the South Pacific nation — … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – “So for a long time, we have been trying to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis easier, cheaper, and quicker,” says Alfred Andama, a microbiologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. That desire was fulfilled last … Read More
May 1, 2026
(Undark) – AI-driven tools are being tested in systems for granting asylum to refugees and aiding displaced populations. For people seeking asylum, the process usually involves registration, an interview, and review by government caseworkers. Decisions on granting asylum have traditionally … Read More
April 30, 2026
(WSJ) – The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic to expand access to its powerful artificial-intelligence model Mythos, complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks and sowing widespread disruptions online. Anthropic recently proposed letting … Read More
April 27, 2026
(Rest of World) – New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia. As AI adoption increases globally, anxiety about AI is rising — but so … Read More
April 20, 2026
(NYT) – Ukraine is using unmanned ground vehicles armed with bombs, guns or rockets to carry out attacks and keep its soldiers out of harm’s way. As the remotely controlled vehicles approached the enemy soldiers, an aerial drone flew in … Read More
April 16, 2026
(404 Media) – Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pitching his country as a global leader in robots for war and defense. Will the world listen? Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy praised robots as the future of war in a Defense Industry Worker Day … Read More
April 13, 2026
(NYT) – China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age. China’s military display and the U.S. countermove were … Read More
April 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores. When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a … Read More
April 1, 2026
(Wired) – A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed. The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better … Read More
March 27, 2026
(AP) – Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. (Read More)
March 27, 2026
(Rest of World) – Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. The growth of AI has triggered global anxiety about job loss — and it is most palpable in China, where the … Read More
March 26, 2026
(The Guardian) – Global family planning aid typically drops under Republican presidents and then rises again by 48% once Democratic presidents are elected, the research, published in BMJ Global Health, finds. For countries heavily reliant on US aid, there are … Read More
March 23, 2026
(AP) – Because of participants’ silence around the ritual, families and authorities have struggled to understand and police a deeply traditional but often abused practice. At least a half-dozen former initiates would not speak to The Associated Press. Meanwhile, hundreds … Read More
March 20, 2026
(AP) – Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday. The … Read More
March 18, 2026
(Wired) – Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. A WIRED review of dozens of … Read More
March 13, 2026
(Arab News) – Somali conjoined twins Rahma and Ramla have been successfully separated from each other at the King Abdullah Specialized Children’s Hospital of the Ministry of the National Guard in Riyadh, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said on Thursday evening. (Read … Read More
March 10, 2026
(The Walrus) – There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan Statistics here are so overwhelming they can feel meaningless. And in a way, they are. Today’s war, if discussed at all, … Read More
March 3, 2026
(The Guardian) – The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human decision-makers could be sidelined. Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was … Read More
March 2, 2026
(Wired) – As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, construction is underway on … Read More
February 27, 2026
(Wired) – Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers. Pan and her colleague’ findings suggest that training data may have played a … Read More
