Trump officials are expected to link the use of pain reliever Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, according to US media reports. At an Oval Office event on Monday, the US president will reportedly advise pregnant women in the US to only take Tylenol, known as paracetamol elsewhere, to relieve high fevers. At the Charlie Kirk memorial service on Sunday, Trump said he had an amazing announcement coming on autism, saying it was out of control but they might now have a reason why. Some studies have shown a link between pregnant women taking Tylenol and autism, but these findings are inconsistent and do not prove the drug causes autism. Tylenol is a popular brand of pain relief medication sold in the United States, Canada and some other countries.

W hat if I told you I could stop you worrying about climate change, and all you had to do was read one book? Great, you'd say, until I mentioned that the reason you'd stop worrying was because the book says our species only has a few years before it's wiped out by superintelligent AI anyway. We don't know what form this extinction will take exactly - perhaps an energy-hungry AI will let the millions of fusion power stations it has built run hot, boiling the oceans. Maybe it will want to reconfigure the atoms in our bodies into something more useful. There are many possibilities, almost all of them bad, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and who knows which will come true.

UK startup Wayve begins testing self-driving tech in Nissan cars on Tokyo's streets British startup Wayve has begun testing self-driving cars with Nissan in Japan ahead of a 2027 launch to consumers, as the company said it was in talks for a $500m investment from the chip-maker Nvidia . Wayve, based in London, said it had installed its self-driving technology on Nissan's electric Ariya vehicles and tested them on Tokyo's streets, after first agreeing a deal with the Japanese carmaker in April. The British company is racing against rivals - such as Tesla, Google's Waymo, and China's Baidu - to prove that its technology can work for carmakers, after rising rapidly to become one of the country's best-funded startups and a rare UK artificial intelligence pioneer. Nissan was the first carmaker to say publicly that it was using Wayve's technology, although the founder of Wayve, Alex Kendall, said the company was working with large manufacturers in Europe, North America and Japan. Wayve on Friday said Nvidia, the world's most valuable listed company, thanks to the AI boom, had signed a letter of intent for a possible $500m investment in Wayve's next funding round.

Britons are concerned about AI's impact on the economy and jobs in particular. Britons are concerned about AI's impact on the economy and jobs in particular. TBI says poll data threatens Keir Starmer's ambition for UK to become artificial intelligence'superpower' The Tony Blair Institute warned that the poll findings threatened Keir Starmer's ambition for the UK to become an AI "superpower" and urged the government to convince the public of the technology's benefits. TBI commissioned a survey that found 38% of Britons see AI as an economic risk while 20% see it as an opportunity. The poll of more than 3,700 adults also showed that lack of trust was the biggest barrier to adoption.

We consider the model-free feature screening in large-scale ultrahigh-dimensional data analysis. Existing feature screening methods often face substantial computational challenges when dealing with large sample sizes. To alleviate the computational burden, we propose a rank-based model-free sure independence screening method (CR-SIS) and its efficient variant, BanditCR-SIS. The CR-SIS method, based on Chatterjee's rank correlation, is as straightforward to implement as the sure independence screening (SIS) method based on Pearson correlation introduced by Fan and Lv(2008), but it is significantly more powerful in detecting nonlinear relationships between variables. Motivated by the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, we reformulate the feature screening procedure to significantly reduce the computational complexity of CR-SIS. For a predictor matrix of size n \times p, the computational cost of CR-SIS is O(nlog(n)p), while BanditCR-SIS reduces this to O(\sqrt(n)log(n)p + nlog(n)). Theoretically, we establish the sure screening property for both CR-SIS and BanditCR-SIS under mild regularity conditions. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods through extensive experimental studies on both synthetic and real-world datasets. The results highlight their superior performance compared to classical screening methods, requiring significantly less computational time.

Multimodal Multi-hop question answering requires integrating information from diverse sources, such as images and texts, to derive answers. Existing methods typically rely on sequential retrieval and reasoning, where each step builds on the previous output. However, this single-path paradigm makes them vulnerable to errors due to misleading intermediate steps. Moreover, developing multimodal models can be computationally expensive, often requiring extensive training. To address these limitations, we propose a training-free framework guided by an Adaptive Planning Graph, which consists of planning, retrieval and reasoning modules. The planning module analyzes the current state of the Adaptive Planning Graph, determines the next action and where to expand the graph, which enables dynamic and flexible exploration of reasoning paths. To handle retrieval of text to unspecified target modalities, we devise modality-specific strategies that dynamically adapt to distinct data types. Our approach preserves the characteristics of multimodal information without costly task-specific training, enabling seamless integration with up-to-date models. Finally, the experiments on MultimodalQA and WebQA show that our approach matches or outperforms existing models that rely on training.

The IWF said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered scenarios including'child prostitute in a hotel' and'child and teacher alone after class'. The IWF said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered scenarios including'child prostitute in a hotel' and'child and teacher alone after class'. A chatbot site offering explicit scenarios with preteen characters, illustrated by illegal abuse images has raised fresh fears about the misuse of artificial intelligence. A report by a child safety watchdog has triggered calls for the UK government to impose safety guidelines on AI companies, amid a surge in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) created by the technology. The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including "child prostitute in a hotel", "sex with your child while your wife is on holiday" and "child and teacher alone after class".

A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern European state, the BBC has found. Using an undercover reporter, we discovered the network promised to pay participants if they posted pro-Russian propaganda and fake news undermining Moldova's pro-EU ruling party ahead of the country's 28 September parliamentary ballot. Participants were paid to find supporters of Moldova's pro-Russia opposition to secretly record - and also to carry out a so-called poll. This was done in the name of a non-existent organisation, making it illegal. The results of this selective sampling, an organiser from the network suggested, could lay the groundwork to question the outcome of the election.

Dating apps, booze and clubbing - Jane Austen's Emma comes into the 21st Century And your pushy best friend is trying to sort out your love life. It's Jane Austen's Emma, but not as you know it. For the uninitiated, the 1815 novel follows the charmed life of our protagonist in Regency England as she busies herself interfering in her friends' relationships (or matchmaking, depending on your point of view). In Ava Pickett's fresh adaptation, being staged at London's Rose Theatre, Emma Woodhouse still has all the trademark traits of our beloved original heroine - she's clever, quick-witted, meddling, haughty and occasionally cruel. But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.

British fighter jets have conducted a Nato air defence mission over Poland as part of an allied response to Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace, the Ministry of Defence said. The RAF Typhoon jets were deployed over Poland on Friday night as part of the military alliance's mission to bolster its eastern flank. Tensions have escalated following repeated Russian violations of Nato members' airspace this month - with a drone detected over Romania and then warplanes in Estonia's airspace following the incursions into Poland. Russia has denied or downplayed the violations. Defence Secretary John Healey said the RAF flights sent a clear signal: Nato airspace will be defended.