Looking for a new job is a job in itself. From finding the perfect role to apply to, to acing the interview, you need to do a lot of prep work to maximize your chances of landing the role. On Wednesday, LinkedIn introduced new AI tools to make the job-search process more intuitive and easier to navigate. The best tools are highlighted below -- and you won't want to skip them. The first step in the job-search process is finding openings that fit your expertise and expectations.

An artificial intelligence model trained on the medical data of 57 million people who have used the National Health Service in England could one day assist doctors in predicting disease or forecast hospitalisation rates, its creators have claimed. However, other researchers say there are still significant privacy and data protection concerns around such large-scale use of health data, while even the AI's architects say they can't guarantee that it won't inadvertently reveal sensitive patient data. The model, called Foresight, was first developed in 2023. That initial version used OpenAI's GPT-3, the large language model (LLM) behind the first version of ChatGPT, and trained on 1.5 million real patient records from two London hospitals. Now, Chris Tomlinson at University College London and his colleagues have scaled up Foresight to create what they say is the world's first "national-scale generative AI model of health data" and the largest of its kind.

The journey to adaptive production is not just about addressing today's pressures, like rising costs and supply chain disruptions--it's about positioning businesses for long-term success in a world of constant change. "In the coming years," says Jana Kirchheim, director of manufacturing for Microsoft Germany, "I expect that new key technologies like copilots, small language models, high-performance computing, or the adaptive cloud approach will revolutionize the shop floor and accelerate industrial automation by enabling faster adjustments and re-programming for specific tasks." These capabilities make adaptive production a transformative force, enhancing responsiveness and opening doors to systems with increasing autonomy--designed to complement human ingenuity rather than replace it. These advances enable more than technical upgrades--they drive fundamental shifts in how manufacturers operate. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT's Center for Advanced Production Technologies, explains that automation is "going from a rigid high-volume, low-mix focus"--where factories make large quantities of very few products--"to more flexible high-volume, high-mix, and low-volume, high-mix scenarios"--where many product types can be made in custom quantities.

Last week was a bad one for video games journalism. Two key contributors to the veteran site Giant Bomb, Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti, have announced their departure after a recent podcast was taken down. The 888th episode of the Giant Bombcast reportedly featured a section lampooning new brand guidelines issued to staff and is no longer available online. Later this week, it was announced that major US site Polygon was being sold to Valnet, owner of the ScreenRant and GameRant brands, resulting in a swathe of job losses. This follows ReedPop's sale, in 2024, of four high-profile UK-based sites – Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun and VG247 – to IGN Entertainment, owned by Ziff Davis, which also resulted in redundancies.

A Russian drone attack has inflicted tens of millions of pounds of damage to the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, according to experts. The photographer Julia Kochetova has gained access to the area

Need to talk through something? Mark Zuckerberg has a solution for that: a chatbot. Meta's chief executive believes everyone should have a therapist and if they don't – artificial intelligence can do that job. "I personally have the belief that everyone should probably have a therapist," he said last week. "It's like someone they can just talk to throughout the day, or not necessarily throughout the day, but about whatever issues they're worried about and for people who don't have a person who's a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI."

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an AI-powered sign language avatar capable of translating text to sign language. Communication problems can be devastating and isolating for the deaf, especially in environments with background noise and crosstalk. It's often impossible for deaf and hard-of-hearing folks to follow conversations in train stations, hospitals, school classrooms, and busy offices. Even people with cochlear implants pick up only a few words from each sentence and can struggle with tone.

Looking for a new job is a job in itself. From finding the perfect role to apply to, to acing the interview, you need to do a lot of prep work to maximize your chances of landing the role. On Wednesday, LinkedIn introduced new AI tools to make the job-search process more intuitive and easier to navigate. The best tools are highlighted below -- and you won't want to skip them. The first step in the job-search process is finding openings that fit your expertise and expectations.

On paper, the up-and-coming Matter standard appears to be an ideal solution for smart homes: a protocol that enables the competing Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, and other major smart-home platforms to collaborate effectively. In reality, Matter is still plagued with issues. Adding new devices to your Matter network can be a pain, and products connected via Matter sometimes "expose" only a fraction of the functionality to Matter controllers. And while Matter supports everything from smart bulbs and smart shades to robot vacuums and thermostats, one key smart home category still isn't part of the specification. I'm discussing security cameras, which are a crucial part of the smart home but still cannot connect to a Matter network.

At least two people were killed in a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv. Officials said falling debris caused a fire in an apartment building where a mother and her son died.