A new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, with the Hasso Plattner Institute, has found that AI tools used to write, edit and contextualize social media posts can subtly steer public opinion - a form of influence that current regulation does not yet address.

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Today, before a tank explodes, before a trench is overrun, and before an artillery battery is silenced, someone is usually recording.

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Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are changing the nature of modern warfare through AI-enabled decision-making.

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The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.

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At Coyote Canyon, the challenge was not just whether a drone could be detected by radar or whether a sensor could spot movement across rough terrain. The bigger question was whether all that information could move through a portable security system fast enough to help people make decisions in the field.

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Chinese AI labs have stunned the world, again. In the space of about a month, Chinese AI start-up labs Z.ai and Moonshot have each launched a model that is nearly as intelligent as competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic but far cheaper. Silicon Valley start-ups are already using Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, and Moonshot’s Kimi-K3 likely isn’t far behind in that market.

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After weeks of being shut down due to safety concerns (via questionable export controls), Anthropic’s Claude Fable is once again accessible to the public with new guardrails that limit its capabilities and revert to inferior models more frequ

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Deepfake creation methods have evolved rapidly in recent years. Modern AI models can generate realistic faces, objects and entire scenes, leading to a proliferation of manipulated photos on the internet with an astonishingly close resemblance to the originals. The ability of generative AI to create lifelike images opens up new possibilities in areas such as creative applications. But this bears with it an increased risk of misinformation. Manipulated content can distort evidence and undermine trust.

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Cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States issued a call to action on Monday for cyber defenders. The message was clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful weapon for cyber attackers; defenders must act urgently to improve their cyber defenses.

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Images of faces created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are seen as more trustworthy than images of genuine faces say researchers, who warn of the risks of online fraud and other harms.

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In the last year or so, artificial intelligence companies have rolled out a spate of web browsers equipped with AI agents. A user might ask one of these agents to plan a vacation and it will open browser tabs to research routes and restaurants, then make reservations and add events to the user’s calendar. How well it does any of this varies.

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Benjamin Boudreaux could feel something slipping in this age of AI. What happens, he wondered, if we off-load our ability to make decisions, to shape the future, to machines? How will we know if we start to lose part of what makes us human, our agency?

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China has achieved a major milestone in its pursuit of commercial nuclear fusion, with two domestically developed superconducting magnets designed for a fusion reactor successfully passing technical acceptance and full-load testing.[1] This is an important step towards building more efficient and scalable nuclear fusion energy systems.

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Crushed concrete from legacy nuclear facilities could play a far greater role in safely managing radioactive land than previously understood. 

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For decades, Chinese military planners have viewed logistics as the decisive factor in any campaign against Taiwan and across the broader Indo-Pacific. Sustaining large-scale operations across the strait would require moving and supplying forces under intense pressure, making logistics both a critical vulnerability and a priority for reform.

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This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation around when and how domestic law enforcement in the United States can deploy force using drones, the companies that markets technology to law enforcement have been moving. It’s past time concerned people take notice.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Used Fuel Research has selected Guidedwave and Sensible Photonics to advance to the final phase of a selection process to demonstrate acoustic emission technologies for automated monitoring of used nuclear fuel dry storage canisters.

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To counteract emerging cyberthreats posed by artificial intelligence, the baseline level of cybersecurity across society must rise — including stronger security practices, improved software quality, faster response to threats, and more effective sharing of cyberthreat intelligence, says a new rapid expert consultation from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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