Iran has sent trainers to occupied Ukraine to help Russians overcome problems with the fleet of drones that they purchased from Tehran, according to current and former U.S. officials briefed on the classified intelligence, a further signal of the growing closeness between Iran and Russia since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The Iranian trainers are operating from a Russian military base in Crimea where many of the drones have been based since being delivered from Iran. The trainers are from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a branch of the Iranian military designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. In recent days, the Iranian drones have become an important weapon for Russia, which has used them as part of the broad strikes across Ukraine against electrical infrastructure and other civilian targets. The deployment of the Iranian trainers appears to coincide with the stepped-up use of the drones in Ukraine and indicates a deeper involvement by Iran in the war.

Western powers will raise alarm Wednesday at a UN Security Council session over Russia's attacks in Ukraine with purported Iranian drones, as the European Union prepared sanctions. The United States, France and Britain requested the discussion, which will take place behind closed doors at the Security Council, diplomats said. Russia holds veto power at the Security Council and would be sure to kill any resolution. But the United States and France have warned that Iran is violating a Security Council resolution by arming Russia in its war in Ukraine. Ukraine has for weeks reported attacks by Russia with Iranian Shahed-136 drones -- unmanned aircraft whose warheads explode in kamikaze landings -- and has moved to cut relations with Tehran.

Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center have created an artificial intelligence model, Context-aware Deconfounding Autoencoder (CODE-AE), that can screen drug compounds to accurately predict efficacy in humans. In tests, the model was able to theoretically identify personalized drugs that could better treat more than 9,000 cancer patients. The researchers expect the technique will improving the accuracy and reduce the time and cost of drug discovery and development, and accelerate precision medicine. "Our new machine learning model can address the translational challenge from disease models to humans," said Lei Xie, PhD, a professor of computer science, biology and biochemistry at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College. "CODE-AE uses biology-inspired design and takes advantage of several recent advances in machine learning. For example, one of its components uses similar techniques in Deepfake image generation."

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The White House is bent on preventing President Biden from having a run-in with Russian President Vladimir Putin while the pair attend the G20 summit next month, according to a new report. White House aides want to avoid even a hallway meeting between the two, or any other situation that might allow for them to be pictured together, Politico reported Wednesday. Biden has condemned Putin as a killer and a war criminal for his ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA's Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6's fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way. Hollywood's continuing obsession with killer robots might therefore be of significant concern. The newest such movie is Apple TV's forthcoming sex robot courtroom drama Dolly. I never thought I'd write the phrase "sex robot courtroom drama", but there you go.

Pro-Kremlin officials were pulling out of the key southern Ukraine city of Kherson on Wednesday, as Kyiv's forces advanced on territory in Russian hands since the war's earliest days. Kherson was the first major city to fall to Moscow's troops after the February invasion and retaking it would be a major prize in Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive. Kyiv's recapturing of swathes of its territory in the east and parts of the south has however been followed by punishing missile and drone strikes that have demolished large parts of Ukraine's power grid ahead of winter. "The entire administration is already moving today," to the left bank of the Dnieper river, the region's Moscow-installed head Vladimir Saldo, said on Russian state television. The city is located on the western bank of the Dnieper, the same side where Ukrainian troops have been moving forward in a counter-offensive that began in August.

Lockheed Martin and Ayar Labs have formed a strategic collaboration to develop future sensory platforms that leverage Ayar Labs' advanced optical I/O microchips that use light to transfer data faster, at a lower latency, and at a fraction of the power of existing electrical I/O solutions. The new platforms could be used across Department of Defense (DoD) applications to capture, digitize, transport, and process spectral information. "As the complexity and amount of data grows on the battlefield, faster decision-making is essential. New innovative system architectures, coupled with AI and machine learning techniques, are needed for our customers' mission success," said Steve Walker, chief technology officer and vice president, Engineering & Technology at Lockheed Martin. "Ayar Labs' optical interconnect solution provides the necessary technology to process spectral information with greater speed and lower latency for next-generation system designs."

Stockholm, 17 October 2022 – Anoto Group AB (publ) ("Anoto") announced on 7 September 2022 that it is working with a government in the Middle East to conduct a Proof of Concept (PoC) for KAIT's AI Solution. Anoto announces today that such government is the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE). We have received a Letter of Intent (LOI) related to a possible purchase of KAIT's AI Solution from the Emirates School Establishment (ESE), which oversees public schools in the UAE. Before purchase, it is customary for schools to undergo a PoC pilot. The PoC for ESE will start in the beginning of November and finish in December of 2022. We have also secured PoCs with three private schools in UAE and one school in Jordan, making it a total of four schools in the Middle East region.

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The US has taken unprecedented steps to limit the sale of advanced computer chips to China, escalating efforts to contain Beijing's tech and military ambitions. The moves are designed to cut off supplies of critical technology to China that may be used across sectors including advanced computing and weapons manufacture. The crackdown marks the most significant action by Washington against Beijing on technology exports in decades, escalating a trade battle between the world's two most powerful economies. After the export controls, Apple reportedly put on hold plans to use memory chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies in its products. The Nikkei newspaper said Apple had planned to use the chips in iPhones sold in China.