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Japanese researchers develop AI system to detect marine plastic waste <br> Japanese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system to better detect marine plastic waste on the seabed, according to local media on Thursday. Researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology developed a system called DeepLitterAI that can process data at almost twice the speed of humans, Tokyo-based Kyodo news agency reported, citing the journal Environmental Pollution. The system is expected to be used for real-time monitoring of marine plastic waste. Researchers created a dataset of about 12,000 images based on seabed footage captured by the agency since 1983. The images featured small litter objects as well as non-litter objects, such as rocks and marine creatures, that can easily be mistaken for waste. Read:&nbsp;OpenAI calls for sweeping economic reforms amid rapid growth of artificial intelligence They trained the system using various patterns, ...

Anthropic’s AI utopia meets a growing backlash <br> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has offered one of the most optimistic visions of artificial intelligence, predicting that if powerful AI develops in the right direction, the world could become &ldquo;stunningly beautiful&rdquo; &mdash; with many diseases cured, human lifespans doubled and poverty eliminated. But as Amodei&#39;s company races to commercialise its rapidly advancing Claude models and reportedly prepares for what could become one of the largest initial public offerings in history, Anthropic is also facing increasingly difficult questions about the boundaries of AI power. The debate is no longer confined to whether AI will transform productivity. It is increasingly about who gets to decide what AI systems can see, what they can do, and where the limits of their authority should lie. Anthropic&#39;s Claude family has rapidly emerged as one of the leading competitors in the frontier AI market. T...

EU antitrust regulators quiz publishers on Google's AI search opt-out <br> EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback from publishers on Google&#39;s&nbsp;&nbsp;proposal to let them ​opt out of AI search without affecting their rankings &zwnj;in search results, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed. The publishers&#39; feedback could determine the outcome of an ongoing EU investigation that could result ​in yet another hefty fine for Google if ​the proposal fails to address competition concerns and publishers&#39; ⁠worries about unfair use of their content. Google announced its AI ​opt-out for publishers in June, the same day the&nbsp;UK antitrust ​watchdog&nbsp;ordered it to allow publishers the option to stop their content being used to power its AI features. The U.S. tech giant, which ​plans to roll out the opt-out globally, declined to comment ​and referred to its June 3 blog post on the topic. Its AI &zwnj;Overviews, ⁠which...

Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter <br> Scientists have made a possible breakthrough in the hunt for dark matter - observing hints of it during an experiment about a mile (1.6 km) underground in South Dakota - though they stopped short of saying they have finally detected this elusive cosmic component. The researchers described a particle interaction documented at the Sanford Underground Research Facility - built in a former gold mine in the state&#39;s Black Hills region - that may have involved a hypothesised particle called a WIMP, short for &quot;weakly interacting massive particle&quot;. This is one of the proposed candidates for being a dark matter particle. Ordinary matter makes up stars, planets, people and everything else we can see. But it represents only about 15% of all the matter in the universe. The rest is thought to be dark matter, which does not emit or reflect light, making it invisible to the human eye and to tel...

Punjab Assembly passes resolution to restrict social media access for children under 16 <br> The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution recommending measures to restrict social media access for children under the age of 16 and ensure their safety in the digital environment. The resolution was moved by Punjab Child Protection and Welfare Bureau Chairperson and MPA Sarah Ahmed, and called for effective legislation to protect children under 16 and safeguard their digital future. The resolution recommended measures to protect children from cyber harassment, online sexual exploitation and inappropriate content. It also called for an effective age-verification mechanism on social media platforms to identify underage users. Read: Social media rules: IHC issues notices It further recommended that social media companies comply with child protection standards and that a coordinated mechanism be established among federal and provincial institutions for the onlin...

John Ternus to lead Apple into the age of AI <br> John Ternus takes over as Apple&rsquo;s chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence (AI). One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company&rsquo;s dependence on China while parrying acute political pressure from the White House. The handover ends Tim Cook&rsquo;s 15-year run, replacing the operations specialist who built Apple&rsquo;s supply chain with the engineer who built its hardware. Ternus, 51, joined Apple&rsquo;s design team in 2001 and worked his way up to senior vice president of hardware engineering, reporting to Cook. He leads the engineering teams behind Apple&rsquo;s entire product lineup, including the iPhones that generate most of the company&rsquo;s revenue. He gets barely a week to settle in, with Apple holding its annual iPhone event on September 9, where it is expected to...