SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood performers, has reportedly responded to studios' "last, best and final" offer to end the strike, rejecting clauses that would let them re-use AI-created likenesses of high-demand and deceased performers without consent. The union allegedly plans to make a counter-offer that removes the current AI-related language. "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers," a union-side source told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. "We could not allow that language to stand." THR reports that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) proposed to "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers (union members earning more than $32,000 per TV episode or $60,000 per film).

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood performers, has reportedly responded to studios' "last, best and final" offer to end the strike, rejecting clauses that would let them re-use AI-created likenesses of high-demand and deceased performers without consent. The union allegedly plans to make a counter-offer that removes the current AI-related language. "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers," a union-side source told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. "We could not allow that language to stand." THR reports that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) proposed to "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers (union members earning more than $32,000 per TV episode or $60,000 per film).

Although the placenta can be visualised using ultrasound, measuring it, and all the tiny blood vessels supplying it, is extremely time consuming, making this impractical for routine early pregnancy screening. So the University of Oxford has used machine learning to develop a tool, trained on thousands of ultrasound images where the placenta has been painstakingly marked out by hand, to automate the recognition process.

Artificial Intelligence is now being used to detect cancer in a pioneering procedure. A new blood test uses AI to quickly scan for brain tumours with 90 per cent accuracy. Scientist hope that this new diagnostic tool could be used by the NHS and hospitals worldwide. Brain tumours are hard to detect and cause symptoms that can be confused with other maladies. These ambiguous symptoms include headaches, memory loss and vision problems, with a scan being the only way to detect the cancerous cells.

Russian researchers have used a non-invasive technique that visualizes the brain activity of a person, recreating surprisingly accurate moving images of what our eyes actually see. The method could someday be employed in cognitive disorder treatment or post-stroke rehabilitation devices that are controlled by a patient's thoughts. This is not the first time that scientists have decoded people's brain activity patterns to generate images. Such methods, however, typically rely on functional MRI or surgically implanted neurons, which can be invasive and cumbersome, thereby limiting the potential for everyday applications. The new technique developed by researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Russian corporation Neurobotics is much more versatile.