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‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons – podcast

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in pl…

 •  The Guardian Technology
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'It’s over, AI won': Google Gemini 4 Argon shatters 59-year-old nuclear fusion conjecture in just a few hours

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon helped researchers extend existing mathematical solutions for magnetic confinement, generating new configurations relevant to fusion simulation software. Google’s AI explored magnetic field equations relevant to experimental fusion reactorsAI agents found new magnetic configurations within hours of starting their investigationGemini helped extend mathematical solutions linked to a 59-year-old fusion research problemGoogle’…

 •  TechRadar