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US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence, which will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton.The “Super Intelligence Force” will work to ensure that the US continues to lead in the technology’s development and will coordinate the government’s engagement with the public, Trump posted on Sunday.It comes after the president signed an executive order on 29 September to rename AI as Super Intelligence, after previously saying the word artificial made it sound “fake”.Trump also said last week that he would set up a board to oversee AI safety after top tech bosses…

The company behind Oxevision, LIO Health, said the technology helped prevent serious incidents, supports staff in providing care and reduces time spent on paperwork.NHS England said any vision-based monitoring technology must support a human rights-based approach to care and be used in line with legal requirements and appropriate patient consent.The inquiry is due to hear evidence from NHS England, the Care Quality Commission and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency during hearings between 5 and 15 October.The latest sessions will take place at Chelmsford Civic Centre rather than in London, where previous hearings have been held.Families will then be…

Donald Trump’s push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.The US president wants AI to be called “super intelligence” – or SI – the same initials used by Slovenian websites.Register.si spokeswoman Klara Herman said 44,000 web addresses with the .si suffix had been registered in September, compared to less than 2,000 in August – an increase of more than 2,100%.She said the scale of activity in late September was “unprecedented” compared to the previous 12 months.Trump called for the technology to be renamed during his…

When her symptoms began in her late 40s, Williams, from the Wychavon area, said doctors she saw initially thought she had depression.”I had multiple attempts on my life, two significant ones, one where I was in a wheelchair for three months for polytrauma, and this was in Covid, so there were no visitors. I had no contact with anyone,” she explained.”I had to leave my job. This was at perimenopause time. My message to women is that, menopause is not the danger zone, it’s the run up, it’s the 45 to 54.”For Williams, who said she was “unrecognisable” before her…

Unlike money held in a conventional bank account, cryptocurrency is often controlled directly by the owner through digital wallets or physical storage devices. For criminals, that combination of speed, anonymity and irreversibility can make crypto holders attractive targets.Whilst the vast majority of cryptocurrency theft happens online through hacks and scams, crypto investigators at Chainalysis say “wrench attacks” have surged in recent years.According to their research, $30m (£22.6m) had been stolen so far this year up to June in violent robberies, making 2026 likely to become the single-worst year for violent crypto attacks on record. Home invasions are also on the…

Chris Kamara has helped launch ‘Here for Chris’ a new men’s mental health initiative in Guernsey.

OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work which involved an external organisation analysing AI models.”Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work,” a spokesperson told the BBC.The ChatGPT-maker did not name the sacked workers, but at least two of them were involved in safety research at the firm.The firings come as the debate over AI safety and the risks the technology may pose to humanity intensified in recent months.”We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on…

On the night of Flint Cahan’s death, staff on the ward were found to have been asleep on the job and on their phones for long periods. East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) says the failings identified were “wholly unacceptable” and that it has undertaken a “significant programme of work” to improve inpatient services.The coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths report highlights 14 concerns. These include failing to carry out “timely and thorough observations” of patients, then falsifying records “in the safe knowledge that staff on duty would not report or escalate the deception”. The document also says there were delays…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.Andrew Bailey said the central bank is watching the huge amounts of money being invested in AI “very carefully” and cautioned that “not everybody always wins”.The money that has been spent on and loaned to AI firms over the last few years in the hope of large returns is causing markets to value some of them as multi-trillion dollar businesses.Asked if he believed an AI bubble could burst, Bailey said: “You could see some correction…

Once the outbreak was recognised, health workers began door-to-door screening in affected villages. Mobile medical units carrying oxygen, nebulisers, suction equipment, malaria tests and medicines visited more than 20 affected villages.One mobile doctor, Neeraj Sharma, says teams routinely saw more than 50 patients a day, about half of them children. They conducted 10 or more malaria tests daily, sometimes finding two positive cases a day.More than 6,200 patients – mostly children – were eventually treated at home, according to Gautam. More than 630 were referred to district hospitals. About 600 returned home, while around 30 remain admitted.Vaccination became an emergency…