Transcranial focused ultrasound is a noninvasive way to stimulate the brain and see how it functions. How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It's hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel Freeman, and colleagues outline a strategy for doing so with an emerging tool called transcranial focused ultrasound. This noninvasive technology reaches deeper into the brain, with greater resolution, than techniques such as EEG and MRI. It works by sending acoustic waves through the skull to focus on an area of a few millimeters, allowing specific brain structures to be stimulated so the effects can be studied.

Understanding and reasoning about physics is a hallmark of intelligence [9].

The three-dimensional reconstruction of multiple interacting humans given a monocular image is crucial for the general task of scene understanding, as capturing the subtleties of interaction is often the very reason for taking a picture.

Our model assumes a box prior,i.e., that the image captures either aninner viewor anouter viewof a box in 3D. It uses neural networks to infer visual cues such as vanishing points or wireframe lines to guide a search-based algorithm to find the program that best explains the image.

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Actor Morgan Freeman revealed to The Guardian on Monday that he has already taken legal action regarding unauthorized AI uses of his voice and likeness.

A Tory MP says he has reported a deepfake video depicting him announcing he had joined Reform UK to the police. George Freeman said he remained the Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk and have no intention of joining Reform or any other party, denouncing the video circulating on social media as an AI-generated deepfake. Freeman said he reported the video to the authorities. Norfolk Police and Facebook have been approached for comment. This sort of political disinformation has the potential to seriously distort, disrupt and corrupt our democracy, he added.

WhatsApp's new AI button has not gone down well with users, with many people describing it as'annoying' and'rubbish'. But not to be deterred, the popular Meta-owned chat platform is planning on introducing yet more artificial intelligence tools. WhatsApp will provide AI-powered writing suggestions and message summaries under a new suite of tools called'Private Processing'. Expected to be made available in the coming weeks, it will transform WhatsApp further from a simple chat app to a ChatGPT-style hub for AI facts and advice. Meta promises not to secretly read your WhatsApp chats with the AI.

British universities have been warned to "stress-test" all assessments after new research revealed "almost all" undergraduates are using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in their studies. A survey of 1,000 students – both domestic and international – found there had been an "explosive increase" in the use of genAI in the past 12 months. Almost nine out of 10 (88%) in the 2025 poll said they used tools such as ChatGPT for their assessments, up from 53% last year. The proportion using any AI tool surged from 66% in 2024 to 92% in 2025, meaning just 8% of students are not using AI, according to a report published by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Kortext, a digital etextbook provider. Josh Freeman, the report's author, said such dramatic changes in behaviour in just 12 months were almost unheard of, and warned: "Universities should take heed: generative AI is here to stay. "There are urgent lessons here for institutions," Freeman said. "Every assessment must be reviewed in case it can be completed easily using AI.

In 2005 I received a copy of World of Warcraft for my birthday. The game clocked in at 3 gigabytes--a behemoth by the standards of the early 2000s, so big that it had to be distributed across four different CDs. I installed those discs onto our creaking, overworked family PC and, hours later, created my first avatar: a humble dwarf paladin named Pumaras, who set off to explore a realm he would soon call home. World of Warcraft was a singular experience, and completely unlike the lonesome corridors of Halo or Call of Duty. Millions of living, breathing human beings logged on to the game at the same time.