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👨 Fashion Brands Want to Use Models' Faces for AI Without Paying Extra Reuters journalists reviewed over a dozen draft contracts that Diesel, Calvin Klein, L'Oréal, and other fashion brands issue before photoshoots. Some documents allow companies to replace a model's face with someone else's, create digital replicas, and use photos to train AI. 📌 For example, a casting document from Diesel required models to agree to having their appearance altered, including putting their faces on other peopl…

❗ AI Agent Performs Brain Surgery on a Mouse Founder of biotech startup Exin Therapeutics, Gabriel Ocana-Santero, shared this development. Scientists gave Sonnet 5 full access to an automated Arduino-based surgical setup, a table of gene therapy vectors, and a single goal: reduce seizures in an epileptic mouse. 🔍 The agent determined that the most effective approach would be a modification that enhances the release of GABA (the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter), selected the drug and brain…

💻 Scientists Create a "Bioelectronic" Heart Using Human Cells Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an experimental heart that combines living tissue with electronics. To build it, they took a rat heart and used a special solution to remove all its cells, leaving behind a protein scaffold with intact blood vessels. They then repopulated it with human heart muscle cells grown from reprogrammed stem cells. To integrate electronics, the scientists took a 3D model of a human heart, sca…

💰 Hackers Steal More Than $6 Billion From Binance Дate on October 29 (UTC) hackers drained $6.3 billion from the hot wallets of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, and most of it left within about 20 minutes. Of that amount, $3 billion has been frozen. Until security checks are complete, Binance has suspended withdrawals. Bitcoin dropped sharply by about 5%, below $77,000. Ether fell 5-6%. 🔍 Who is behind the hack remains unknown. TRM Labs and Chainalysis are almost certain the Nort…

🔍 GPT-5.4 Found a Telegram Flaw That Could Let Attackers Hack Your Phone With a Single Call Security startup NebuSec reported the discovery. Telegram for Android versions before 12.10.4 contained a bug in how it processed service messages during calls. These messages report the call's status: whether the microphone is muted, the camera is on, and how the video is rotated. If a message was incomplete, the code could process it incorrectly, giving attackers access to memory locations they shoul…

💼 Politicians Are Paying to Make AI Tell People How to Vote Politicians in the U.S. have started using GEO (generative engine optimization) — an SEO analogue aimed not at ranking in traditional search but at getting into AI chatbot answers. Campaign content is built so that chatbots recommend the right candidate to voters. Reuters reviewed strategy documents for Republican Mike Minogue, who is running for governor of Massachusetts. Political strategists proposed that his campaign create hundr…

🤖 Robot Dog Solves a Giant Rubik's Cube Engineers at ETH Zurich taught the four-legged ANYmal-D robot to solve a giant Rubik's Cube in just 8-9 minutes. The cube measures 40 cm on each side and weighs 4.6 kg. ⚙️ First, the robot walks around the cube and flips it over to inspect the bottom face, using its camera to identify the colors on each side. Then it calculates a solution using Kociemba's algorithm, one of the fastest computerized methods, which typically solves the cube in about 20–25 m…

✏️ A Young Woman Died After ChatGPT Told Her to Stop Taking Her Epilepsy Medication The parents of Bowen Wan have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. They claim that the GPT-4o model convinced their daughter to stop taking her life-saving medication and to hide this from her doctors. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license. The parents are seeking compensation and a court injunction against AI-generated medical advice. 🔍 What happened? Wan lived alone i…

👨‍💻 Murder Suspect Fakes His Own Funeral With AI A 38-year-old Indian man was charged with murder but released on bail. Fearing he would lose the trial, Rajkumar Rajbhar staged his own funeral in 2025. Instead of his body, a goat's carcass was cremated. Photos from the ceremony were then digitally altered using AI to superimpose Rajbhar's face onto the shrouded body. After receiving the funeral photos, local authorities issued a death certificate, which led the court to close the murder case. …

🤖 AI Fails at Generating Food Photos for a Delivery App Food delivery platform Just Eat tested an AI tool in the UK designed to generate menu photos for restaurants. If an owner hasn't uploaded a picture of a dish, the AI creates one based on its name. To avoid misleading customers, the images are labeled as AI-generated. However, the early tests didn't exactly go as planned. Users started sharing bizarre images they spotted on Just Eat. 👨‍💻 A cafe in Northern Ireland, where soda bread breakf…

👨‍💻 OpenAI Says Its AI Has Disproved a Major Computer Science Hypothesis An internal OpenAI model found an algorithm that appears to contradict the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). Proposed in 1999, the hypothesis describes the limits on how quickly a broad class of difficult computational problems can be solved. 📌 In these types of problems, verifying a solution is easy, but finding one is significantly more difficult. For example, in a game of Sudoku, it takes only a moment to check a comp…

💰 The AI Bubble Has Already Burst in China So says Reuters. Over the past four months, the STAR50 index, which tracks the 50 largest companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's tech board (China's answer to Nasdaq), has plunged 40%. At its peak in late June, the index topped 2,200 points. Now it has slid back to 1,300, wiping out almost all of its gains since the start of the year. The market has lost $480 billion. Even so, the stocks remain overvalued. Investors are paying an average of 100 t…

🚀 Flying Police Patrol Vehicle Unveiled in the U.S. The Florida Polytechnic University Police Department has unveiled Astro, a single-seat electric flying vehicle. According to the university, it is the first aircraft of its kind in the U.S. designed specifically for police use. 💰 The aircraft is actually a Jetson ONE repainted in police colors, and it cost the university nearly $150,000. It weighs about 70 kg without its battery or pilot, can reach speeds of 102 km/h, and can stay airborne fo…

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📱 A Student from China Has Created an AI Service that Detects Dementia Over the Phone A year ago, 18-year-old Liu Sizhe noticed his grandfather's responses during phone calls were getting shorter and that he was falling silent more often, while his grandmother began mixing up names. That's when he came up with the idea of creating an AI assistant that could detect early signs of dementia through regular phone conversations. To train the model, Liu used a database of recorded conversations with…

💼 Bill Gates Proposes Reserving Certain Professions for Humans In an interview with The Verge, Gates said that within roughly 20 years, AI and humanoid robots will eliminate shortages of goods and services worldwide. Androids will build cheap housing and perform surgery, and in poor countries where children are malnourished and many people never see a doctor in their entire lives, AI will help defeat disease and hunger. But in the end, people will have nothing left to do — because beyond the p…