Combination of pictures showing Elon Musk in Davos on January 22, 2026, Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, in Paris, on May 22, 2024, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. Photo: AFP / Lehtikuva

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called on leading artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of model development, arguing that safety work is falling behind advances in AI capability.

Amodei set out a three-part proposal on Saturday that includes permanent independent evaluators inside major AI companies, shared safety standards across the industry and international cooperation on AI risks.

The NFC Forum has selected ten finalists for its 2026 Innovation Awards, bringing together applications ranging from vehicle access and industrial manufacturing to food, livestock identification and battery-free locking systems. More than 30 entries from around the world competed for places in the final ten.

The finalists are Blok, Miele KM8000 & M Sense Smart Cooking System, an NFC and Bluetooth 6.0 vehicle start-stop system, Pragmatic NFC Protect PR1311, QR Cattle ID, SenseTap, Smart Bottle, TM NFC+ Augmented Reality Restaurant Menus, TRIFORA Smart Kitting and the VOLTEND Battery-Free NFC Lockout/Tagout System.

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Pressure for stronger artificial intelligence rules is growing across the United States, European Union and United Nations after new security incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic added to warnings from researchers about the risks posed by advanced AI systems.

The debate intensified after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week and said leading AI companies were moving too quickly towards systems that exceed human capabilities.

Technology has changed everything around us. Each decade has brought disruption that made the previous one look slow. But the pace of change has accelerated, and the reason is simple: connectivity. More devices, faster networks, and smarter platforms have compressed what used to take years into months, and what took months into weeks. 

E-commerce is one of the clearest examples of this transformation. Before online retail, buying something meant physically going somewhere, browsing shelves, waiting in line. The internet dismantled that process entirely. Consumer behavior shifted because the technology made it rational to change: better prices, wider selection, instant delivery tracking, and personalized recommendations built around purchase history.

People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring Kimi K3, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17, 2026. A model released on July 17 by Chinese startup Moonshot AI has fuelled buzz around the country's tech prowess, as experts said it could rival some of the more advanced offerings from US labs. Moonshot AI's "Kimi K3" is one of several from China growing in global popularity thanks to their lower costs and source code that programmers can customise. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP) / China OUT

China placed international cooperation at the centre of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, where governments, researchers, companies and international organisations gathered to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. The conference produced new agreements, new technology initiatives and fresh commitments aimed at expanding AI access across the world. It also marked the launch of a new international body dedicated to AI cooperation and governance.

Korean music, gaming and culture will share one stage at Assembly Summer 2026 as the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Finland expands its annual programme into a four-day event.

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Finland will launch K-Week x Assembly during Assembly Summer 2026, bringing together K-pop, esports and Korean culture under one programme for the first time.

There's a quiet revolution happening in video production, and it doesn't involve cameras, studios, or expensive post-production teams. It involves feeding your existing footage into an AI model and getting something fundamentally better — or at least fundamentally different — back out. Video-to-video AI has matured fast, and the people paying attention are already using it to do things that would have required a full production pipeline twelve months ago.

This isn't about replacing creativity. It's about eliminating the friction between having a good idea and executing it at the quality level your audience expects.

A powerful solar flare captured by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission on Sept. 30, 2024. Photo: ESA

A large-scale simulation by the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed the full threat posed by a solar storm equivalent to the 1859 Carrington Event.

The test, conducted at ESA’s mission control in Darmstadt, involved a simulated X45-class solar flare and its cascading impact on satellites and Earth-based infrastructure. The scenario assumed a worst-case event, causing real-time system failures and exposing the vulnerability of modern technology.

The simulated storm unfolded in three stages.

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Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, exposing millions of devices worldwide to potential security risks unless users upgrade or register for extended protection.

The decision affects a substantial portion of Microsoft’s global user base. According to Statcounter, about 43 percent of Windows users were still operating on Windows 10 as of July 2025. In the United Kingdom alone, consumer group Which? estimates that up to 21 million people may still be using the system.

Once support ends, Microsoft will stop providing security patches, technical support and software updates to Windows 10 systems.

Two black holes in orbit around each other in quasar OJ287. On the left is a theoretical diagram, calculated by Lankeswar Dey, showing where the black holes and the jets emanating from them were at the time when the picture was taken. On the right is part of an image taken by the system including the RadioAstron satellite (J.L. Gomez and et al., 2022), where the two lower bright spots are the radio emission coming from the two black holes, and the topmost spot is the jet of the smaller black hole. This is shown as a dashed line on the left-hand side diagram, while the black holes are shown as dots. Photo: University of Turku

Researchers have released the first confirmed image of two black holes orbiting each other. The observation confirms a theory that has remained unproven for more than 40 years.

The discovery centres on quasar OJ287, located five billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer. Quasars are the luminous cores of distant galaxies, powered by the gravitational energy of supermassive black holes.

The image shows two bright points, each representing a jet of high-energy particles emitted by one of the black holes.