A pilot project will use AI-optimised sensors in buried fibre-optic cables to detect different kinds of movement at a UK defence site. A pilot project will use AI-optimised sensors in buried fibre-optic cables to detect different kinds of movement at a UK defence site. Mon 24 Aug 2026 14.16 EDTLast modified on Tue 25 Aug 2026 00.13 EDT AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv. Private companies will also be given access to the vast trove of data from Ukraineâ s Avengers AI lab to help build new systems, the first agreement of its kind in the UK. The scheme will be piloted at a UK defence site, building a model to identify protesters or a hostile-state attack.

In a lab in California, ten robots are gearing up for a project that might solve some of the biggest mysteries in our universe. Scientists in Berkeley plan to use 5,000 galaxy-seeking robots to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet. Now the scaled-down prototype system is about to be tested. DESI robots (right) will poke out from 10 wedge-shaped'petals' that will be fitted together in a Focal Plate Assembly. Over its lifetime, the ends of the fibre-optic cables will be turned almost 200,000 times.