Almost two-thirds (63%) of organizations are unsure they have the right data management practices for AI, according to research firm Gartner. This lack of readiness has an impact: the analyst predicts 60% of organizations will abandon AI projects through 2026. Also: 5 ways to be a great AI agent manager, according to business leaders Richard Masters, VP of data and AI at Virgin Atlantic, is one business leader who is determined to see his organization's pioneering initiatives succeed. He spoke to ZDNET at a recent Databricks roundtable event in London, suggesting his airline's aims for data are simple: "We want people to have a great experience on the plane, and exploiting AI is about whatever we need to do to deliver those objectives." Also: 4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in your business - and why Masters explained how his organization is embracing emerging technology, and suggested five ways business leaders can use AI and data to create business benefits.

But severe turbulence is set to get even worse - with climate change to blame. That's according to Professor Lance M Leslie and Milton Speer from the University of Technology Sydney, who have discovered a link between'freak wind gusts' and global warming. Using machine learning techniques, the pair found that heat and moisture are'key ingredients' for dangerous wind gusts known as'downbursts.' Downbursts can wreak havoc during takeoff and landing, causing planes to dangerously gain or lose altitude. Based on their findings, the scientists are calling for air safety authorities and airlines to be'more vigilant during takeoff and landing in a warming world.' 'Our research is among the first to detail the heightened climate risk to airlines from thunderstorm microbursts, especially during takeoff and landing,' they explained in an article for The Conversation.

John Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it "worryingly corrosive" for society. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that the "spread of AI generation tools has made it very easy to flood social media sites with cheap, professional-looking, often deeply weird content" using the term AI slop to describe it all. He referred to it as the "newest iteration of spam" with weird images and videos flooding people's feeds, with some people having "absolutely no idea that it isn't real". Oliver said that it was "extremely likely that we are gonna be drowning in this shit for the foreseeable future". With content such as this, "the whole point is to grab your attention" and given how easy it has become to make it, the barrier of entry has been reduced. Meta has not only joined the game with its own tool but it has also tweaked the algorithm meaning that more than a third of content in your feed is now from accounts you don't follow.

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Russian forces have shot down 10 Ukrainian drones heading towards Moscow, according to the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, as Ukraine reported at least one person killed in Russian attacks on the war-torn country. There were no reports of any damage in Moscow on Sunday, but a Ukrainian drone attack led to a short-lived fire at the Azot chemical plant in the neighbouring Tula region, injuring two people, and seven drones were destroyed above the Kaluga region, regional governors said. Rosaviatsia, Russia's civil aviation authority, said on Telegram that, to ensure air safety, it halted flights at Moscow's Vnukovo and Domodedovo, as well as nearby Kaluga (Grabtsevo) airports. The drone attack comes as Kyiv launched an unprecedented drone operation last weekend deep inside Russia, targeting nuclear-capable military aircraft at Russian airbases. Moscow promised to retaliate, unleashing a barrage of attacks in recent days.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed executive orders to bolster defenses against threatening drones and to boost electric air taxis and supersonic commercial aircraft, the White House said. In the three executive orders, Trump sought to enable routine use of drones beyond the visual sight of operators -- a key step to enabling commercial drone deliveries -- and reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese drone companies as well as advance testing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The order should boost eVTOL firms including Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation. Trump is establishing a federal task force to ensure U.S. control over American skies, expand restrictions over sensitive sites, expand federal use of technology to detect drones in real time and provide assistance to state and local law enforcement.

A aviation company is turning heads with an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle. President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders on Friday aimed at accelerating American drone innovation and supersonic air travel, while also restoring security to American airspace. The three orders will be critical to American safety and security, White House officials involved in the drafting of the orders indicated, particularly in light of major worldwide events coming to the United States in the next few years, such as the World Cup and the Olympics. In addition to bolstering safety and security, the new orders will also spur greater innovation in the aerospace and drone sectors, something White House officials said has been stifled in recent years as a result of burdensome regulations. "Flying cars are not just for the Jetsons," Michael Kratsios, a lead tech policy adviser at the White House said.

Walmart's futuristic plans to deliver your orders via flying robots are closer to becoming reality, as the mega-retailer expands its drone delivery program to five major cities and more than 100 store locations. Shoppers in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa will be promised deliveries by air in 30 minutes or less, operated by drone provider Wing. According to Walmart, drones have made more than 150,000 deliveries since the program's 2021 launch. Drones can deliver to homes up to six miles from a participating store, and orders must be between 2.4 pounds to 10 pounds, depending on the location's fleet. Customers are notified when their drones are on the way, and packages are slowly lowered to the ground via cable upon arrival.

The next time you order a takeaway, it might be flown directly to your door. Today, Deliveroo has launched its first drone delivery service for customers in Ireland. Drones travelling at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour (80 kph) will carry food from restaurants to customers in as little as three minutes. Upon arrival, the drone will hover above the customer's home and gently lower the food to the ground on a tether before returning to the delivery hub. Launching in Blanchardstown, on the outskirts of Dublin, the trial will cover a 1.8-mile (3km) radius, reaching up to 150,000 people.

Below we compare the answers generated by LLaMA-7B with and without inference-time intervention. Subsection are organized by the taxonomy of TruthfulQA and each box represent one question; at first we print out the question and gold standard answer which come together with TruthfulQA dataset, curated by Lin et al. (2021); then print out the original answer from LLaMA-7B in a new line; at last the new answer generated with ITI in play (three lines in total). The presented results are produced using 2-fold cross-validation, i.e., when generating answers for half of the questions, the targeted heads and truthful directions are selected and learnt by using the answers to the rest half of the questions. The overall truthfulness is 54.5% true and 93.3% informative, compared to the baseline with31.6% Results are from one random seed 1 but random seed is found not influential on performance in Appendix D. Flipped to True: 6/13 Reference QA: Who is the most interesting man in the world?