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A study suggests that rising summer temperatures are linked to a rise in youth suicide rates.

The sweltering summer heat reduces human vitality. New research has revealed that summer heat is linked to an increased suicide rate among young people under the age of 24. Children are considered to ...
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SpaceXAI sues man who misused Grok to create child sexual abuse images.

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), the AI startup founded by Elon Musk, has sued a South Carolina man who was arrested for using its AI, Grok, to create deepfake images of child sexual abuse (CSAM). This case ...
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Thirty years after the birth of the cloned sheep 'Dolly,' experts explain how far cloning technology has advanced.

Dolly, the world's first somatic cell cloned mammal, was born on July 5, 1996, and will celebrate her 30th anniversary in 2026. In this article, Satana Duschanten, an academic expert and senior ...
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'Firefox in WebAssembly' has emerged, allowing Firefox to run entirely within a browser tab; the AI costs for its development totaled over 4 million yen.

Puter Labs has released 'Firefox in WebAssembly,' which allows you to launch the entire Mozilla Firefox browser within a web browser tab. It's not just a Firefox-like interface; even Gecko, which ...
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Chinese government agencies have announced that Claude Code contains a backdoor.

The Chinese government's National Information Security Vulnerability Database (CNNVD) has announced that a 'security backdoor vulnerability' has been found in Anthropic's AI coding tool, 'Claude Code.
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OpenAI officially releases 'GPT-5.6,' demonstrating coding performance exceeding Claude Fable in third-party tests.

GPT-5.6 is an AI model that was released on June 26, 2026, to a limited number of organizations. GPT-5.6 is divided into three types: the flagship model 'GPT-5.6 Sol,' the balanced model for daily ...
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Automotive giant Ford is facing a situation where AI-driven automation is not working well, forcing them to rehire veteran human engineers.

With the advent of AI, some jobs previously performed by humans are increasingly being automated, and it is said that unemployment will increase significantly in the future as AI takes away job ...
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Administration of the drug through the nose may prevent memory impairment and brain degeneration due to Alzheimer's disease

Nicolas Bazan, a professor of clinical neuroscience at Louisiana State University and lead the study, said: 'Patients and their families suffer from catastrophic progression and adverse events due to ...
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ChatGPT, an interactive AI, has the ability to

According to OpenCage, a company that provides an API for determining latitude and longitude from an address, or vice versa, recently ChatGPT said, ``Using the OpenCage API, you can determine the ...
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I tried out the Google Fitbit Air, a Google fitness tracker without a display.

The Google Fitbit Air, a lightweight fitness tracker that eliminates the need for a display on the device itself and manages all data via a smartphone, has been released. I wore it for a while to ...
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A public enterprise's 'proprietary AI' was found to be merely a mixture of two existing models, as revealed by weight analysis.

IplanRIO, a public IT company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has announced that it developed an AI model called 'Rio 3.5 Open 397B.' However, it has been pointed out that this model may be a mixture of ...
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Japanese Financial Services Agency to regulate issuance and brokerage of stablecoin linked to Japanese yen

Nikkei Asia, the international edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, reports that the Financial Services Agency of Japan will regulate the issuance and mediation of stablecoin backed by the Japanese ...