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Urgent funding announced for Ebola vaccine following tracking failures
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has today announced urgent funding to fast track the development of three candidate vaccines targeting a rare strain of Ebola as the WHO announced on Sunday that 5 patients have been discharged from…
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New AI assistant helps NHS detect autism in young children
The introduction of an AI appointment system in a London borough has led to 20 per cent more children attending NHS developmental reviews, that can spot and mitigate for issues such as autism, ADHD, poor sight and hearing early on.
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Big Tobacco urged to make early ban on nicotine pouch ads that target young people
Anti-tobacco campaigners are calling on companies producing nicotine pouches to stop marketing their products now, ahead of a ban on the advertising of tobacco products in the UK effective from next year.
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Council adopts AI app ahead of controversial new recycling change
An English council is embracing AI-powered apps to help households adapt to new recycling laws.
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US to get EU citizens’ sensitive biometric data in new deal on visa waiver scheme
The EU commission is currently negotiating with the US Department of Homeland Security on a new deal giving the Americans access to EU citizens’ biometric data as part of an Enhanced Border Security Partnership.
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Researchers offer AI tool to help search for climate solutions
The environmental risks from the rapid scale-up of AI are well-documented, but scientists at two of the UK’s top scientific institutions have shown a new AI platform that can help to find solutions that can help tackle climate change.
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Patients on NHS waiting lists unhappy with lack of communication, new data finds
Elderly patients have been left isolated by poor communications tech New government data shows that almost half of patients on NHS England waiting lists are dissatisfied with the communications they receive. The Health Insight Survey, published by the Office for…
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Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical hailed as “sophisticated” treatise on dangers and promise of new technologies
An Oxford theologian has praised the pope’s AI stance Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the “prospect of greater poverty and inequality” as a result of unregulated AI in his first papal encyclical grabbed the headlines on Monday, but an Oxford…
