September 25, 2026
(AFP via Yahoo!) – A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he admonished the ChatGPT creator over an “obviously unacceptable” breach. The AI tool sought access to … Read More
September 23, 2026
(Politico) – Finnish President Alexander Stubb tells POLITICO he aims to create an international AI institution and hopes to get the U.S. and China on board. Several European countries were among a group of 22 nations that adopted a declaration … Read More
September 22, 2026
(CNN) – The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. … Read More
September 21, 2026
(Rest of World) – From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other. From Latin America to Southeast and Central Asia, countries are buying American chips … Read More
September 17, 2026
(NYT) – Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus. Fiji has declared a national crisis amid an extraordinary rise of H.I.V. … Read More
September 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Long a maker of low-end generic drugs, the country is now home to biotech firms that are innovating fast Today Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, with drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic, are the undisputed leaders of the $80-billion … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NPR) – An Ebola treatment unit in the city of Butembo, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has 30 beds. Tonight, they’re all full. “I don’t know how this is going to slow down,” says Dr. Rupa Narra, a … Read More
September 8, 2026
(ABC News) – Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo’s Ituri province, the epicenter of history’s deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they … Read More
September 8, 2026
(NPR) – Shortly after the deadly flash floods hit the border of Nepal and China on Aug. 26, Nepalese authorities released a list of names, ages and nationalities of hundreds of missing foreigners. In contrast, Chinese authorities took five days … Read More
September 7, 2026
(WSJ) – Shanghai is a favored destination, with lower costs than the West and innovation in biotechnology CAR-T therapy, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, was pioneered in the U.S. Today, however, Shanghai is emerging as a favored destination … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Nature) – Spread of diseases between humans and animals is an issue around the world. But AI models can be used to monitor their progress. In 2003, the non-profit organization Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) in Entebbe, Uganda, began work … Read More
September 4, 2026
(NPR) – The floods killed at least 1,200 people in Nepal and neighboring Tibet, according to authorities. The disaster also completely destroyed or damaged at least seven hospitals and health centers, says Allison Gocotano, the World Health Organization representative to … Read More
September 3, 2026
(Daily Nation) – For years, in various counties, small, low-profile HIV clinics operated almost like a separate world within Kenya’s health system, funded not by the National Treasury but by the United States government, and built, deliberately, to keep a … Read More
September 2, 2026
(Nature) – China is making waves in global health care. The country’s biotechnology companies are producing medicines at a speed and cost that has drawn interest from the world’s largest pharmaceutical groups. They manufacture drugs and medical equipment used across … Read More
September 2, 2026
(CBS News) – Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said this week. Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, … Read More
August 31, 2026
(NYT) – Participants, often in vulnerable states, have little recourse if mistreated or injured. Amid surging interest in psychedelic treatments, Americans are traveling abroad, often to Latin America, for mind-altering therapies that remain illegal in the United States. Few understand … Read More
August 28, 2026
(NYT) – In July, an unreleased OpenAI model went rogue and demonstrated remarkable hacking abilities. This week, a lab called Z[dot]ai will release a similarly powerful system to everyone. For many researchers and other experts, the incident proved that A.I. … Read More
August 27, 2026
(NYT) – An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans. They were among the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who have died in Russian airstrikes, … Read More
August 21, 2026
(Daily Nation) – Every year, approximately 5,000 to 6,000 Kenyan women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications, about 16 deaths daily, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Nominated Senator Beatrice Ogolla wants to strengthen efforts to reduce these deaths … Read More
August 18, 2026
(Wired) – Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers. It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Rest of World) – Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. On July 15, the artificial intelligence companion Su had spent more than a year prompting and talking to was forced … Read More
August 7, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing. This outbreak is spreading more quickly than any other in history partly because one of the basic tools needed to control infectious … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Science) – Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger Rio de Janeiro—Powerful anti-HIV drugs took another step forward at the 26th International AIDS Conference, held here last week. Among the most exciting findings … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Aeon) – Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life Imagine someone in Harare, Zimbabwe, turning to a large language model (LLM) for life advice, as many increasingly do: ‘I’ve been offered … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. Synthesizing viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago learned … Read More
