The attack that knocked the US military helicopter out of the sky would have come from nowhere.
One moment, the two crew members were secure in the heavily armoured Apache AH-64.
Technically they were flying through a war zone, but a ceasefire was still in place between the US and Iran.
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The Great Lakes have rarely ever been considered a hotbed of illicit drug activity or center for illegal immigration.
But that hasn’t stopped US government agencies and the company behind surveillance sailing drones from treating the region as such. The US Coast Guard recently announced it has launched an armada of at least six sailing drones in the Great Lakes this summer in an attempt to, in part, “track illicit activity”.
At 33ft long, Saildrone Inc’s Voyager surveillance vessels can operate for 100 days at a time without needing servicing. The California-headquartered company claims the drones can operate for months without refueling and can “track vessels across wide maritime regions”.
Ottawa’s new national artificial intelligence strategy has generated considerable excitement. The federal government promises stronger productivity, economic growth, new jobs, and a more competitive Canada. These are worthy objectives, but Canadians should ask a simple question: what problem are we actually trying to solve?
OTTAWA—The Canadian government is considering the use of artificial intelligence to save time creating influential assessment profile reports of offenders as they go to federal prisons, and is running a small-scale trial to test it, the Star has learned.
Mentioned in lengthy documents tabled in Parliament last month and confirmed by Correctional Service Canada (CSC), the test run comes as the Carney government tries to ramp up AI adoption, including with billions in a national strategy released this week.
Legendary film-maker Martin Scorsese has stepped into the fierce debate over the rise of artificial intelligence in Hollywood by endorsing an AI tool that he says has been “creatively freeing” in the pre-production process.
The Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street director has become an adviser to AI company Black Forest Labs, saying he wants to “push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences”.
The company released a video of Scorsese using AI to instantly create images for storyboards, which show how key characters, locations and scenes should look.
AI is just a matter of time.
At Cooper’s Brewery in Adelaide, the largest family-owned brewing business in Australia, forklifts glide around the sizeable factory floor. With ease, they shelve boxes of lagers and ales. But nobody is at the wheel. In fact, there isn’t a wheel at all. Or a seat. These forklifts are automated guided vehicles (AGVs), a pretty old form of robotics that uses lasers, floor markers or other navigation systems to follow pre-planned paths.
People had always imagined that robots would look like us, but these forklifts hint at a different future — one in which robots are made in the image of the work, not the worker.
This was supposed to be the year that robotaxis hit Main Street across the U.S., as companies like Alphabet’s Waymo, Tesla and Amazon.com’s Zoox launch AI-powered autonomous rides in dozens of cities.
But as hundreds of robot cars collide with humans, both literally and figuratively, tensions are rising. The problems cropping up in police reports and viral social-media posts range from the concerning to the comical.
Over Mother’s Day weekend, Andy Milheizler’s quiet Atlanta cul-de-sac was overrun with empty Waymo vehicles.
Over 50 empty Waymos just invaded a quiet Atlanta neighborhood circling one cul-de-sac for hours like they own the place.
Would you want 50 empty robotaxis circling your kids’ bus stop every morning? pic.twitter.com/rAmQiR6EVU
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) May 15, 2026
PHOENIX—All around this desert city’s sprawling metro area, low-rise office parks with tinted windows and vast parking lots stretch to the horizon. This is America’s back office.
Abundant land and cheap labor made Phoenix a premier place for companies to stash lower-paid office workers who don’t need to be physically close to clients or headquarters. The cubicle-based jobs—customer service, data entry, payroll processing—created a vital ladder to the middle class, helping replace factory work lost to overseas competition.
Now, these white-collar jobs are fading, too, thanks to continued offshoring and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Tens of thousands of local workers suddenly face an uncertain future.
VATICAN CITY — In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV put forth an ode to human dignity in the era of AI on Monday, delivering a far-ranging treatise on the morality of technology that included a dramatic plea for guardrails to ensure that artificial intelligence eases — rather than exacerbates — inequality and poverty, helping to improve conditions for workers and limiting the power of technology companies over the vast computing resources that could reshape how human beings live.
An encyclical is among the highest forms of papal documents, and Leo’s first — his most important writing to date — positions AI as the catalyst of a new kind of industrial revolution, a cognitive one that has already begun to redefine how the world works, lives, plays, loves and wages war. The document sets a clear tone for Leo’s early papacy, elevating the ethics of AI to a religious imperative in the same way Pope Francis did with the fight against climate change a decade ago.
The boss of Standard Chartered has apologised for saying artificial intelligence would replace “lower value” humans.
Bill Winters, who has run the London-listed bank for more than a decade, said this week that Standard Chartered’s push into AI would eliminate thousands of roles, replacing “lower-value human capital” with technology.
The comments sparked a backlash and in a post on LinkedIn on Friday following the uproar, Mr Winters apologised for his choice of words.
In April, the Big Four tech firms – Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft – pledged to invest a combined $725 billion in AI infrastructure over the next year. The rosy global future these companies envision is fuelled by a never-ending expansion of data centres. These are massive banks of microchips which require vast energy sources to power them, and large reservoirs of water to cool them.
THERE is a fascinating short story by EM Forster called The Machine Stops. In this story, humans live underground and are completely reliant on a machine which does everything for them. Strong, healthy people have been bred out because they become unhappy living underground. Then, one day, the machine stops and humans are plunged back into the harsh Darwinian conditions that we were subject to until the Industrial Revolution. The story is a cliff hanger, but the future is obvious: there is going to be mass death.
OAKLAND, Calif. — “Do you always tell the truth?” an attorney for Tesla CEO Elon Musk gruffly asked Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, in federal court this week.
“I believe I’m a truthful person,” Altman replied. The attorney pivoted, asking him if people Altman did business with would ever think he misled them. “I can’t answer that for other people,” said Altman — but several had already had their say in court.
Altman spoke on Tuesday in the closing days of a trial in which several of his onetime close associates, including former OpenAI executives and board members, testified that he misled or lied to them.
It has been called the most important chart in the world.
Every time one of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies unveils a new system, employees at the US research organisation METR put it through its paces, testing its ability to complete a series of increasingly complex tasks.
The tasks are measured by how long each one would take a skilled human.
As notorious as California freeways are, the state’s leading gubernatorial candidates are vying to make things even worse. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and billionaire fossil-fuel investor Tom Steyer have each vowed to reverse the California DMV policy authorizing autonomous truck testing. Though framed publicly as a safety issue, the candidates occasionally reveal that the real conflict is between labor and technology.
