On Thursday, Disney and OpenAI announced a deal that might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago. Starting next year, OpenAI will be able to use Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel, and Yoda in its Sora video-generation model. Disney will take a $1 billion stake in OpenAI, and its employees will get access to…
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.2, its smartest artificial intelligence model yet, with performance gains across writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks. The launch comes just days after CEO Sam Altman internally declared a “code red,” a company-wide push to improve ChatGPT amid intense competition from rivals. “We announced this code red to really signal to the company…
Stuart Whincup,in Darlingtonand Federica Bedendo,North East and Cumbria Family handouts The families of Christie Harnett, Nadia Sharif and Emily Moore have campaigned for a public inquiry An NHS trust which grieving families say subjected their loved ones to ”chaotic and appalling” mental health care will be the subject of a public inquiry. Relatives met with…
KFF Poll Shows Fewer than Half of the Public Are Aware of Abortion Pill Mifepristone’s Prevalence or Safety In September, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announced the FDA would be reviewing the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, which was…
Jim Reed,Health reporterand Wesley Stephenson,BBC Verify PA Media The NHS has urged those eligible to get vaccinated against flu to help limit the severity of symptoms The NHS says it’s facing its “worst-case scenario” after the number of people in hospital with flu jumped by 55% in a week. NHS England chief executive Sir Jim…
On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, President Trump issued an executive order on “gender ideology” outlining how his administration would view sex and gender and incorporate these concepts into government. This executive order has had widespread implications across government and for federal grantees. One area that has been impacted is…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images The number of patients in hospital in England with influenza has risen by more than 50% in the past week, with NHS bosses warning there is no sign of “super flu” peaking yet. In the week up to Sunday there were 2,660 flu cases a day on average in hospital…
Executive Summary Enterprises are entering a phase where AI systems function as decision engines that shape customer interactions, operational workflows, and business outcomes. This creates a new class of risk that is behavioral, contextual, and dynamic, driven by how models interpret instructions, handle data, and adapt within distributed environments. Security teams need a framework that…
Multiple recent polls have found that economic anxiety in the U.S. is on the rise, and decades of KFF polling show how the rising cost of health care is a key component of people’s economic concerns. New data from the KFF Health Tracking Poll provide additional insights into who is struggling most in the current…
Lucy Charles-Barclay had been dealing with stress fractures, joint pain and low energy before her coeliac disease diagnosis. Source link
