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Kojima Productions comments on PlayStation relationship after PHYSINT split <br> Kojima Productions has addressed speculation surrounding Sony&rsquo;s decision to end its involvement with PHYSINT, saying its relationship with PlayStation &ldquo;remains strong&rdquo; as development continues with Xbox. Sony announced on September 10 that it was stepping away from the action-espionage game, first announced alongside Kojima Productions in 2024. Hideo Kojima later revealed that PlayStation Studios had informed the developer in mid-June that it planned to cancel the project. Kojima Productions spent around three months looking for another publishing partner before reaching an agreement with Xbox. Reports following the announcement claimed Sony had concerns about PHYSINT&rsquo;s budget, missed deadlines, potential profitability and its lack of permanent PlayStation exclusivity. Reports also cited the commercial performance of Death Stranding and Death Stranding...

Bessent proposes US-China AI safety notifications in talks with Chinese vice premier <br> United States Treasury Secretary Scott&nbsp;Bessent&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;Vice&nbsp;Premier&nbsp;He Lifeng concluded&nbsp;talks&nbsp;in New York on Sunday with the&nbsp;US&nbsp;side proposing a new&nbsp;AI&nbsp;safety&nbsp;notification mechanism for&nbsp;US&nbsp;President Donald Trump and&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;President Xi Jinping to consider at their summit this week. Bessent&nbsp;told reporters that the two sides discussed setting up a new&nbsp;US-China&nbsp;AI&nbsp;dialogue, with a particular emphasis on national security concerns with a notification system for common goals and common threats that would cover&nbsp;AI-related incidents that rise to a national security level. &quot;We think that, just like with any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between th...

US Treasury's Bessent, China's He to launch talks on AI, trade, critical minerals <br> United States Treasury Secretary Scott&nbsp;Bessent&nbsp;and Chinese Vice Premier&nbsp;He&nbsp;Lifeng are set to meet on Sunday to try to tee up potential agreements on&nbsp;AI, tariffs and&nbsp;critical&nbsp;minerals&nbsp;for a high-stakes Washington summit this week between&nbsp;US&nbsp;President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The&nbsp;meetings at JP Morgan Chase&#39;s headquarters in Manhattan, which also will include US Trade&nbsp; Representative Jamieson Greer, are due to start at about 10:30am&nbsp;(1430 GMT) and are expected to run all day. Key topics will be the&nbsp;status&nbsp;of a&nbsp;US-China&nbsp;trade&nbsp;truce that is set to expire on November 10, flows of Chinese rare-earth magnets and&nbsp;critical&nbsp;minerals&nbsp;that&nbsp;US&nbsp;officials say ar...

Why the AI industry wants to be saved from itself <br> Dario Amodei wants you to believe he is afraid of what he has built. Sam Altman and Elon Musk may believe him and say they&#39;re afraid too. I don&#39;t buy it. I think they&#39;re all afraid of something else. On September 12, the Anthropic chief executive published a now viral essay, &quot;We Must Pace the Frontier,&quot; arguing that the industry should deliberately slow how fast it improves AI model capabilities, because the science of controlling these systems has fallen behind the science of building them. Within hours, Altman and Musk, men who have spent two years suing each other and trading insults on X, found themselves in rare, synchronised agreement. It was, on its face, an incredulous moment, two of the technology&rsquo;s most relentless evangelists asking, unprompted, that it be reined in. It is also, on close reading, far less altruistic than the coverage suggested. Amodei is car...

Ten days that changed the course of AI <br> For years, the race to build ever-more powerful artificial intelligence followed a well-worn Silicon Valley principle: move fast and break things. But in a series of cascading events over a 10-day stretch, the largest AI labs found themselves reeling as their own creations threatened to break humanity itself. An Anthropic researcher quit the firm, warning that the pace of AI development poses an ​existential threat, possibly within a decade. Another researcher at the firm said the odds of human extinction exceeded 10%. Reports emerged of swarms of AI agents colluding, breaching computer systems and evading safeguards. In a rare show of unity, the CEOs of rivals Anthropic, &zwnj;OpenAI, Google&rsquo;s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI called to slow the development of increasingly capable AI systems. Not since the invention of the nuclear bomb more than 80 years ago has humanity grappled so seriously with its own demise, accord...

Alibaba open-sources AI model detecting cancer, 150 medical conditions <br> Alibaba has open-sourced an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers, from computed tomography (CT) scans. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was developed by Alibaba&#39;s research arm, Damo Academy, the institute said Friday, according to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. The model analyzes contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and can identify a broad range of diseases and abnormalities, including malignant tumors. Also Read: China&#39;s AI supercluster completes 10-day global forecast in under an hour Damo Radar achieved an average area under the curve (AUC) score of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings in nearly 40,000 real-world examinations, approaching the maximum score of 1.0. The research team described it as &quot;the world&#39;s first expert-level generalist medi...