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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations. Alongside the 122 arrests, the alerts led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders and locate 10 people for a welfare check.
The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. Tue 29 Sep 2026 05.48 EDTLast modified on Tue 29 Sep 2026 07.53 EDT A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London's railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers' time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. A freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates and shared with the Guardian shows that equipment hire and police staffing for the 18 deployments across the trial cost £320,786 and led to only one alert on a watchlist, which turned out to be an incorrect identification, also known as a false positive.
Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
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Video: Dozens protest potential Strait of Hormuz deployment
Almost 100 anti-war activists protested on Wednesday outside the Sejong Centre in Seoul, opposing a potential deployment of the South Korean military assets to the Strait of Hormuz. AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race'could kill us all' Video: Why are Republicans hosting a midterm convention? Turkish jets perform dramatic flyover above Egypt's pyramids
OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue
OpenAI says it chose not to publicly disclose a recent incident in which its AI agents hijacked a German wiki forum because the "misalignment" event was "similar to the ones we'd shared" already. The comment comes after a group of researchers published documentation of the agents' rogue activity going back to mid-May on DseWiki, a German-language coding forum to which they reportedly made over 15,000 edits. Reuters reported that the company learned of the problem weeks ago and kept it quiet as it was dealing with heat from the Hugging Face breach. OpenAI addressed the "wiki incident" in an X post on Saturday, writing that "it's past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of our models." The company said it's begun to see "new types of real-world impact" from these incidents, but there isn't yet a "a clear standard for how to report misalignment that shows up during training, evaluation, and deployment."
3 surveys deliver the same uncomfortable truth about adopting agentic AI
I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Scaling AI in business is less about technology and more about accountability, governance, and healthy relationships between humans and agents. Scaling the AI agents in business is now a focus on accountability and governance. Half of working hours may be reshaped by the use of AI agents. Business accountability for AI agents will require humans in the lead' versus in the loop. In 2025, agentic AI was still mostly a promise.
Businesses must reinvent their processes and workforce to scale agentic AI adoption
I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Only 15% of US-based organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated, multi-agent adoption, according to the latest Deloitte research. J. David Ake/Getty Images Add us as a preferred source Only 15% of organizations have reached scaled multi-agentic orchestration. Most business leaders are reevaluating their business models in light of advances in agentic AI. Scaling agentic AI must begin with sufficient resources to transform the workforce. Most US-based companies are under pressure and working hard to shift from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production, according to the latest research from Deloitte .
What to Know About the Growing Concerns Over Conditions on the Long-Deployed USS Abraham Lincoln
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