Anthropic has established a biology research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct physical experiments, according to Reuters. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, the company's Head of Life Sciences, has confirmed the lab's existence to the news organization. "We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work," he said. "We absolutely are doing that today..." He also said that while Anthropic is doing lab work in-house, it's also working with external partners when it makes sense.

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You'll no longer have to install a beta of one of Apple's latest operating systems to try out Siri AI. The company has released the public versions of iOS 27, macOS 27 (aka macOS Golden Gate), iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and visionOS 27. As you may have deduced, the major new feature across the ecosystem is Siri AI, the long-delayed revamp of Apple's virtual assistant. Siri AI can pull your personal information from various apps and use what's on screen to bring more context to its responses. There's a new Siri app too, and the company notes usage limits may apply.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 15-year-old boy has been rescued after spending days sitting atop a boat that had capsized in the frigid waters of Alaska's Bering Sea. The boy, identified by family members as Derek Parker Aghnaanga, was the lone survivor from the skiff, having lost his older brother and cousin in the incident. The trio had departed from St Lawrence Island on Friday 4 September and were due back the following Sunday afternoon, the US Coast Guard said. But when the 18-foot fishing vessel failed to return, they launched a search effort.

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Engadget Podcast: Is Siri AI actually useful in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate? Engadget Podcast: Is Siri AI actually useful in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate? Also, we try to make sense of OpenAI's rumored AI smart speaker. Apple finally launched the public betas for iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate and all of its other new software this week. Siri AI seems genuinely useful, and potentially less annoying to consumers than Microsoft's Copilot.

The Philippines has condemned the dehumanising and racist portrayal of the country as a timid monkey strong-armed by the US and Japan to take Beijing on over the South China Sea . Last week, China Daily posted an AI-generated video featuring a monkey in a Filipino shirt. It screams as arms bearing the Japanese and US flags shove it onto a rickety karaoke stage set up in a boat. After it gets scolded for singing the wrong song, it pulls out a sheet reading South China Sea arbitration award. It is then flung into the sea and blasted by a water cannon.

Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived: the first public betas of Apple's 2027 software updates are here . Previews of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and watchOS 27 are now available to be installed directly on your device. The headliner of iOS 27 is the long-awaited Siri AI . The new version transforms from a basic voice-command system into a modern AI assistant.

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