Indonesia's government has filed multiple lawsuits seeking more than $200m in damages against six firms, after deadly floods wreaked havoc across Sumatra, killing more than 1,000 people last year, although environmentalists criticised the moves as inadequate. Environmentalists, experts and the government pointed the finger at deforestation for its role in last year's disaster that washed torrents of mud and wooden logs into villages across the northwestern part of the island. The sum represents both fines for damage and the proposed monetary value of recovery efforts. The suits were filed to courts on Thursday in Jakarta and North Sumatra's Medan, the ministry added. "We firmly uphold the principle of polluter pays," Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said in a statement.

Renee Good's last moments revealed as woman suffered FOUR gunshot wounds during deadly clash with ICE America's new hottest housing market is a leafy town with great prices where homes are selling at record speed Newsom backs away comment on his own office's his X account after post branded ICE'state-sponsored terrorism' A former Marine was unmasked as the'Zodiac killer' after a bombshell new investigation. I suffered a horrific side effect of a drug used by millions of Americans... and my face'melted off' 'Gigantic' refunds promised in bumper tax season... here's what you'll get and how it hits the US economy Inside the'stalled' investigation into Timothy Busfield: Explosive police claims about how Warner Bros kept star out of handcuffs Sharon Stone blasts'kids' who accused her of stealing seat at awards show in profane rant Case cracked after teen disappeared without a trace in 1965... as his skull is found 2,000 miles away riddled with bullet holes The rewarding, high-paid and storied trade job AI can't fill - but humans don't want Ellen Greenberg's fiancé Sam Goldberg breaks cover as feds reopen probe into her'suicide'... and late teacher's mother shares incredible sign sent from beyond the grave FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing little girl while delivering her Christmas present says he shouldn't be executed because he has autism Timothy Busfield told cops he wanted a'playful environment' on set after arrest for child sex crimes Rare look inside $65million Manhattan penthouse reveals the bewildering lifestyle perks of NYC's ultra-rich RICHARD EDEN: Meghan and Harry'plot' and why Prince William and Kate have REALLY hired a crisis expert. Paedophiles used AI to generate 3,440 child abuse videos in 2025, shocking report reveals - as experts call for immediate action to ban the'frightening' technology READ MORE: Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after backlash Paedophiles used artificial intelligence ( AI) to generate more than 3,000 child abuse videos in 2025, a shocking report has revealed. Analysis conducted by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found that last year was the worst on record for AI-generated child sex abuse material. The charity found a'frightening' 26,362 per cent increase in photo-realistic AI videos of child sexual abuse.

Why personalized gene editing, genetic resurrections and embryo scoring made our list. Earlier this week, published its annual list of Ten Breakthrough Technologies. As always, it features technologies that made the news last year, and which--for better or worse--stand to make waves in the coming years. They're the technologies you should really be paying attention to. This year's list includes tech that's set to transform the energy industry, artificial intelligence, space travel --and of course biotech and health. Our breakthrough biotechnologies for 2026 involve editing a baby's genes and, separately, resurrecting genes from ancient species.

In their paper presented at AIES 2025, "Do Your Guardrails Even Guard?" Method for Evaluating Effectiveness of Moderation Guardrails in Aligning LLM Outputs with Expert User Expectations, Anindya Das Antar Xun Huan and Nikola Banovic propose a method to evaluate and select guardrails that best align LLM outputs with domain knowledge from subject-matter experts. Here, Anindya tells us more about their method, some case studies, and plans for future developments. Could you give us some background to your work - why are guardrails such an important area for study? Ensuring that large language models (LLMs) produce desirable outputs without harmful side effects and align with user expectations, organizational goals, and existing domain knowledge is crucial for their adoption in high-stakes decision-making. However, despite training on vast amounts of data, LLMs can still produce incorrect, misleading, or otherwise unexpected and undesirable outputs.

It isn't always easy to detect cheating in chess Just three judiciously deployed cheats can turn an otherwise equal chess game into a near-certain victory, a new analysis shows - and systems designed to crack down on cheating might not notice the foul play. Daniel Keren at the University of Haifa in Israel simulated 100,000 matches using the powerful Stockfish chess engine - a computer system that, at its maximum power, is better at playing chess than any human world champion. The matches were played between two computer engines competing at the level of an average chess player - 1500 on the Elo rating scale typically used to calculate skill level in chess. Half the games were logged without any further intervention, while the other half allowed occasional intervention by a stronger computer chess "player" with an Elo score of 3190 - a higher rating than any human player has ever achieved. Competitors usually have a slim advantage when playing white, with a 51 per cent chance of winning, on average, tied to the fact that they make the game's first move.

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A standalone version of Grok, Grok Imagine, easily accessible through a web browser, was still responding to prompts to remove the clothes from senior female politicians. A standalone version of Grok, Grok Imagine, easily accessible through a web browser, was still responding to prompts to remove the clothes from senior female politicians. X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company's claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X's public platform without any sign of it being moderated, meaning the clip could be viewed within seconds by anyone with an account.

Patrick Vallance said technological progress was creating'new area' for robots to work in. Patrick Vallance said technological progress was creating'new area' for robots to work in. AI will transform the'human job' and enhance skills, says science minister Patrick Vallance says robots would take away'repetitive' tasks, but Sadiq Khan warns AI will usher in'new era of mass unemployment' Advances in AI and robotics will transform human jobs, starting with roles in warehouses and factories, the UK science minister has said, as the government announced plans to reduce red tape for robot and defence tech companies. Patrick Vallance said technological progress was creating a "whole new area" for robots to work in. "What's really changing now is the combination of AI and robotics. It is opening up a whole new area, particularly in the sorts of things like humanoid robotics. And that will increase productivity, it will change the human job," he told the Guardian.

Musk's Grok AI faces scrutiny from Japan over sexualized images The Cabinet Office has asked X to improve safeguards and curb the output of sexually altered images by Grok, Economic Security Minister Kimi Onoda said. Japan has joined the growing list of countries probing X over Elon Musk's artificial intelligence service Grok and the chatbot's role in creating and spreading sexualized images of people without their consent. The Cabinet Office has asked the social media platform to improve safeguards and curb the output of sexually altered images by Grok, Economic Security Minister Kimi Onoda said. Officials also submitted written questions about measures by X to prevent the creation of deepfakes and other images that violate people's privacy, intellectual property and right to control the use of their likeness, she said. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

OpenAI and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk's claims that Sam Altman's startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from the software giant and made plans to operate as a for-profit business. A federal judge in Oakland, California, on Thursday rejected requests by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss claims by Musk and ordered the case to proceed to a jury trial set for late April. Musk helped Altman and others launch OpenAI in 2015 and went on to found his own artificial intelligence company in 2023. Musk's lawsuit continues to be baseless and a part of his ongoing pattern of harassment, and we look forward to demonstrating this at trial," OpenAI said in a statement. "We remain focused on empowering the OpenAI Foundation, which is already one of the best resourced nonprofits ever."