Work to fix hospitals built using unsafe concrete will not be completed in time to meet the government’s target, a new report has warned. Seven hospitals built using Raac, or reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, were prioritised for remedial work last year, with the government setting a deadline of 2030. The new buildings are now expected…
On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will collaborate with the new venture to develop technology to link people’s brains to computers. Merge Labs has raised $252 million in funding from OpenAI, private investment firm Bain Capital, video game developer Gabe Newell, and…
Love Island’s Dr Alex George believes his ADHD and OCD diagnoses “completely changed” his life. The former A&E medic, who grew up in Carmarthenshire but lives in London, wants improved waiting times for assessments after paying thousands of pounds for private ADHD and autism tests. In his new book, he discussed getting diagnosed and said…
Back in late July, the team was hard at work preparing the first version of the model for launch, squashing pesky bugs and running evaluations. They’d already locked in the technical name — Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — but one critical detail was still missing: a public codename for LMArena. LMArena is a public platform…
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI…
Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed before it could be exploited….
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday night follows global outrage at Grok being used to generate thousands of harmful non-consensual “undressing” photos of women and sexualized images of apparent minors on X….
Enterprises aiming to automate processes using AI agents or enhance employee productivity using AI chat-based assistants need to enforce comprehensive safeguards and audit controls for responsible use of AI and processing of sensitive data by large language models (LLMs). Many have developed a custom generative AI gateway or have adopted an off-the-shelf solution (such as…
Traditional business reporting processes are often time-consuming and inefficient. Associates typically spend about two hours per month preparing their reports, while managers dedicate up to 10 hours per month aggregating, reviewing, and formatting submissions. This manual approach often leads to inconsistencies in both format and quality, requiring multiple cycles of review. Additionally, reports are fragmented…
At Amazon.ae, we serve approximately 10 million customers monthly across five countries in the Middle East and North Africa region—United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, and South Africa. Our AMET (Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye) Payments team manages payment selections, transactions, experiences, and affordability features across these diverse countries, publishing on average five…
