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Meta’s latest deployment report points to a different role for generative AI in software engineering: constructing tests that expose a change in behaviour before code reaches users. Its significance lies in how machine-generated evidence, human judgement and the cost of false alarms are brought together A warning about faulty software is easy to generate and...

Liquid AI’s new family of compact multimodal models raises a practical question for the next phase of artificial intelligence: how much useful work can move onto the devices we already own, and what must change before local intelligence becomes dependable? Progress in artificial intelligence is often narrated through the largest available model: more demanding reasoning...

Datalab's Surya 2.5 brings renewed attention to a less spectacular but essential frontier of artificial intelligence: turning the visual organisation of a document into information a machine can use. Its release shows how smaller specialist models can improve the foundations of AI systems, while reminding us that faster reading is valuable only when the evidence...

The history of technological progress is often told through stories of invention. New machines are developed, scientific breakthroughs are announced and innovative products capture public attention by demonstrating capabilities that previously appeared impossible. While these moments undoubtedly deserve their place in the history of innovation, they rarely represent the point at which technology begins to...

Few scientific challenges illustrate the complexity of the natural world more clearly than the study of Earth’s climate. Unlike many physical systems that can be examined in relative isolation, the climate emerges from the continuous interaction of countless processes operating simultaneously across the atmosphere, oceans, land surfaces, ice sheets, biological ecosystems and human societies. Changes...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important component of future space missions. We examine the technological challenges that make greater onboard autonomy necessary and consider how this transformation may reshape not only space exploration but also the broader development of autonomous intelligent systems operating in extreme environments Few technological endeavours illustrate the relationship between human...

For much of its history, the relationship between artificial intelligence and military affairs has been portrayed through the lens of autonomous weapons, robotic systems and increasingly sophisticated combat technologies. Public discussion has therefore tended to focus on the prospect of machines replacing human operators on the battlefield, often overlooking a transformation that is arguably far...