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From artificial intelligence to Chiikawa, Japan's 2026 buzzword nominees offer a glimpse into a year defined by technology, economic uncertainty and internet memes. The 30 nominees for the annual list, announced Thursday, were selected by publisher Jiyukokuminsha. The objective of the list is to recognize expressions that capture the year's trends and cultural shifts. This year's contenders include AI暴走 ( AI bōsō, rogue AI), フィジカルAI ( fijikaru AI, physical AI) and データセンター ( dēta sentā, data center), reflecting the ever-increasing influence of artificial intelligence in everyday life. Other technology-related entries include 声の権利 ( koe no kenri, voice rights), highlighting recent concerns and lawsuits regarding the unauthorized reproduction of people's voices using generative AI, and スマホ農場 ( sumaho nōjō, phone farms), which use large numbers of devices to artificially inflate social media engagement. The term, similar to existing phrases in English such as "iPad kid" or "brain rotted," refers to young people hooked on instant gratification from various forms of digital entertainment.

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK, AU or IE homepage at any time using this menu. Inside team Trump's'ill-prepared' midterm strategy and missed red flags before blue tsunami.. as aides scrambled and president focused on ballroom Stunning upset as Democrat topples Richard Hudson, the very man in charge of keeping Republicans in power: 'No freaking way!' Trump purge BEGINS: Insiders name scapegoat who the president has already decided will take blame for midterms... as Susie Wiles' devious plot that will ignite Cabinet civil war leaks... and JD Vance sparks a West Wing squabble Everyone's blaming Trump's Iran war for the midterms bloodbath... but MAUREEN CALLAHAN confronts a far more sinister cause, and warns: He'll go down as the Mad King who squandered the greatest comeback in history Democratic infighting erupts as Hakeem Jeffries launches bid for Speaker after GOP midterm bloodbath - but nearly 400k liberals say he is'not the right choice' Blame game explodes ...

British celebrity hairstylist and beauty brand entrepreneur John Frieda has died aged 75. Frieda became a firm favourite with celebrities throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and is known to have cut hair for clients including British model Twiggy, US First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. He was also known for the range of hair products bearing his name, and the iconic Purdey bowl cut which he created for The New Avengers actor Joanna Lumley in 1976. His death was announced by his hair salon in an Instagram post on Tuesday. It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear John passed away peacefully .surrounded

Image caption, Ed Miliband tells the BBC's Newscast podcast it is right to confront this issue of the transatlantic slavery trade Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted the government's willingness to consider formally apologising for the UK's role in the transatlantic slave trade will not lead to higher costs for the British taxpayer. The prime minister has said the UK will not pay reparations to affected countries, but declined to say whether his new approach could involve additional taxpayer money. Speaking on the BBC's Newscast podcast, Miliband said previous British governments had a sweep it under the carpet attitude to the pain and consequences of slavery, citing what he described as former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair's sorry not sorry remarks on the issue nearly two decades ago. In 2007, Sir Tony said the UK's involvement in the slave trade was a matter of deep sorrow and regret. Tony Blair did sort of do a kind of sorry not sorry situation.

Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. AI'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI One of the "godfathers of AI", Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a "doomer" about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a "wonderful future" but he said "it might be that we would have been better off never developing it". I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans' Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology's risks and enable what he called "radical abundance" or whether "we fail to manage the risks and have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart".

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"With AI, we need to reconsider what it means to learn" Generative AI has worked its way into every field over the past four years and is prompting us to reconsider our habits. At universities, students are using it to write, find information and solve problems, while scientists have already incorporated it largely into their research. Teachers are being called on to rethink how they do their job now that AI programs can complete - in just seconds - a number of tasks traditionally assigned to students. These are just some of the questions we explore in our special online report on AI at universities, published at the start of this new school year . These are also questions that Schwartz - a professor of educational technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a faculty director at the Stanford Accelerator for Learning - has been studying for the past few years.

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