Zanskar used AI tools to identify a site that could host a commercial power plant. Zanskar used AI tools to help revive a New Mexico geothermal plant. Now, the company found a hotspot that could support a new power plant. Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet's surface. But in other places, they're obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power.

Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems--and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by industry in decades. A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada--metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden geothermal resources deep underground, says that it has identified a new commercially viable site for a potential power plant. The discovery, the company claims, is the first of its kind made by the industry in decades. The find is the culmination of years of research on how to find these resources--and points to the growing promise of geothermal energy .

What is a Palestinian without olives? In Gaza, the world has seen the cost of a diplomacy that claims to uphold a rules-based order but applies it selectively. The United States intervened late, and only to defend an occupation the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled illegal. Alongside other Western nations that built multilateral institutions, the US increasingly pursues nationalist agendas that undermine them. The hypocrisy is stark: one set of rules for Ukraine, another for Gaza.

In their paper ReWiND: Language-Guided Rewards Teach Robot Policies without New Demonstrations, which was presented at CoRL 2025, and introduce a framework for learning robot manipulation tasks solely from language instructions without per-task demonstrations. We asked Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang to tell us more. What is the topic of the research in your paper, and what problem were you aiming to solve? Our research addresses the problem of enabling robot manipulation policies to solve novel, language-conditioned tasks without collecting new demonstrations for each task. We begin with a small set of demonstrations in the deployment environment, train a language-conditioned reward model on them, and then use that learned reward function to fine-tune the policy on unseen tasks, with no additional demonstrations required.

Earlier this month, Sony AI released a dataset that establishes a new benchmark for AI ethics in computer vision models. The research behind the dataset, named Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), has been published in Nature . FHIBE is the first publicly-available, globally-diverse, consent-based human image dataset (inclusive of over 10,000 human images) for evaluating bias across a wide variety of computer vision tasks. We sat down with project lead, Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Governance at Sony Group and Lead Research Scientist for AI Ethics at Sony AI, to discuss the project and the broader implications of this research. Could you start by introducing the project and taking us through some of the main contributions?

Charlotte Owen: 'The Lords were blown away by these brilliant women.' Charlotte Owen: 'The Lords were blown away by these brilliant women.' 'I don't take no for an answer': how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn For Jodie*, watching the conviction of her best friend, and knowing she helped secure it, felt at first like a kind of victory. It was certainly more than most survivors of deepfake image-based abuse could expect. They had met as students and bonded over their shared love of music. In the years since graduation, he'd also become her support system, the friend she reached for each time she learned that her images and personal details had been posted online without her consent.

A humanoid robot from GMO Internet Group dances and hops at the 2025 International Robot Exhibition on Wednesday in Tokyo. Robots equipped with cutting-edge technologies that perform duties on behalf of humans at workplaces and disaster-hit sites are on display at the 2025 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. At the exhibition, which kicked off at Tokyo Big Sight on Wednesday, the spotlight is on humanoid robots as well as those powered by artificial intelligence. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is showcasing the newest model of its humanoid robot Kaleido, which is equipped with technologies such as autonomous movement and remote control. In a demonstration held the same day, the robot extinguished a mock fire, removed a fallen shelf weighing 30 kilograms and rescued a dummy cat.

Team GB Olympic and Paralympic athletes are being offered a new form of artificial intelligence-based protection from online abuse. UK Sport, the body that funds Olympic and Paralympic sports, has signed a contract worth more than £300,000 to give thousands of athletes access to an app that detects and hides abusive posts sent by other users on social media. Athletes are able to sign up for free and can protect their accounts throughout the Games cycle up to Los Angeles 2028. The level of abuse our athletes are facing online is unacceptable - to do nothing about this is not an option, UK Sport director of performance Kate Baker said about a deal that is the first of its kind in British sport. The app, called Social Protect, uses AI to try to ensure athletes see as few abusive messages sent their way as possible.

Police accused of'homophobic assumptions' over victims of blackmail on Grindr Police failed to properly investigate allegations that a gang was blackmailing men on the gay dating app Grindr, the BBC can reveal. Our investigation has learned of five cases of suspected blackmail involving victims targeted on Grindr in one area, with at least four of them connected to the same gang, which remains at large. In one instance, a suspected victim killed himself 24 hours after a group of men turned up at his home demanding he hand over his new Range Rover. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog has told Hertfordshire Police - the investigating force - to examine whether homophobic assumptions could have contributed to failures in the investigation. Hertfordshire Police said it was unable to discuss specific points about the case, which has now been reopened, but said it is committed to building and maintaining good working relationships with the LGBTQ+ communities.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 17-year-old boy on Thursday for allegedly carrying out a cyberattack on the operator of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain, sources said. Tokyo police served an arrest warrant on a 17-year-old boy on Thursday for allegedly carrying out a cyberattack on the operator of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain, investigative sources said. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested the second-year high school student from the city of Osaka over an alleged violation of the law against unauthorized computer access and fraudulent obstruction of business. According to the sources, the boy fraudulently obtained about 7.25 million sets of Kaikatsu Club membership information with a computer program he created using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot. The boy is said to have skills strong enough to have won awards in cybersecurity competitions, as reported by TBS.