Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a policy speech during a Lower House plenary session on Oct. 24. The government has drawn up a draft of its basic program on the development and use of artificial intelligence, aiming to increase the AI utilization rate among the public initially to 50% and eventually to 80%. The draft emphasizes the need to boost AI usage with a view to developing Japan's own AI technologies. It also seeks a policy to attract about ¥1 trillion ($6.4 billion) in private-sector investment to enhance research and development activities. The government aims to adopt the basic program at a Cabinet meeting by the end of the year.

An international study of over 1,400 adults found that creative activities like music, dance and visual art help keep brains biologically younger than chronological age.

'Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.' A sperm whale floats amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, mouth hanging open. When photographer Roie Galitz captured the scene with a drone, the image was so arresting that it took a moment to notice the hungry female polar bear stretching her jaw to break through the whale's leathery skin. Galitz was leading a photography expedition along Norway's Svalbard archipelago when he spotted a blackened blob floating on the horizon. As the icebreaker drew close, he could see (and smell) that the blob was a massive decaying carcass releasing an occasional exhalation of noxious gas, like a big air cushion.

Anthropic research reveals how AI reward hacking leads to dangerous behaviors like lying and providing harmful advice, including telling users bleach consumption is safe.

Senate Republicans are winning the AI regulation moratorium battle as debate continues over federal framework versus states' rights in artificial intelligence policy.

From'Icarus bug' to flawed panels: Airbus counts cost of relying on single model PARIS - This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world's most-delivered jet -- the A320 -- isn't immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal. Days after recalling 6,000 A320-series planes over a software glitch linked to cosmic radiation, the European giant was forced to slash delivery targets when defects surfaced in some of their fuselage panels. The twin setbacks -- one rooted in astrophysics, the other in basic metallurgy -- underscore how fragile success can be for a planemaker that dominates the busiest corner of aviation and is on track to outpace Boeing for a seventh straight year. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

A Canadian politician was arrested this week after she claimed a threatening voicemail she allegedly sent to a fellow politician was AI-generated.

Buying Warner Bros. Gives Netflix What It's Always Needed: An Identity The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century's worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to . It also ends the streaming wars. In a deal to acquire Warner Bros. announced Friday, Netflix will be scooping up HBO's many titles, including Courtesy of HBO Close your eyes, think for a minute, and tell me: What is a Netflix Movie? OK, try again: What is a Netflix Show? Sure, it's easy to rattle off some killer titles--, --but Netflix has never really had a brand identity.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman scrambles to boost ChatGPT's quality and first lady Melania Trump rolls out an AI-powered Spanish translation of her memoir.

An investigation found that real video of medical professionals is being manipulated using AI. An investigation found that real video of medical professionals is being manipulated using AI. TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors and influencers directing viewers to Wellness Nest, a US-based supplements firm. All the deepfakes involve real footage of a health expert taken from the internet.