Catania airport flight suspensions due to Mount Etna ash eruptions
Catania airport in Sicily was forced to suspend all incoming flights on Monday until 4pm local time (1400 GMT) due to persistent volcanic ash emissions from Mount Etna.The latest travel disruption follows a five-day shutdown of the Sicilian aviation hub last month during the peak Ferragosto holiday, which represented the longest emergency closure at the
IBM and NASA’s New Moon AI Is Really a Data Infrastructure Project
IBM and NASA have released an open AI model that can help scientists identify lunar ice, map craters and study volcanic features across the Moon. Those applications make for an easy headline, although they are not the most important part of the project. The larger achievement sits underneath the model. For decades, lunar missions have
Google to begin identifying underage users in Canada using AI
Google is bringing its age assurance technology – which uses artificial intelligence to detect underage users – to Canada. The company says that if the technology identifies someone as underage, their Google account will be changed to include additional protections, such as safeguards on content recommendations. If it mistakenly identifies an adult as being under
Enterprise AI Security
The shift from experimental AI to enterprise tools is the next step for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. Employees now use these platforms to summarise documents, create code, analyse spreadsheets, prepare presentations and find information within the company. This creates a new enterprise security challenge. The threat is no longer limited to an employee
OpenAI Board Member Warns Of Catastrophic AI Loss Of Control
OpenAI has appointed one of the AI industry’s most outspoken safety researchers to help oversee its own safety practices — and he immediately warned that the industry may be moving too fast to keep its systems under control. Paul Christiano joined the OpenAI Foundation Board on 9 September and will also serve on its Safety
Elon Musk’s SpaceX sues Texas AG over Terafab tax-break records
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Grimes County, according to court records.According to the court docket, SpaceX filed an “Original Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Application for Temporary Restraining Order, Temporary Injunction and Permanent Injunction.” The docket does not provide additional details about what SpaceX is challenging
Palantir, Nvidia bring sovereign AI to Nvidia’s complex supply chain
Palantir Technologies and Nvidia have partnered to deploy sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) across Nvidia’s supply chain, combining Nvidia’s open AI models with Palantir’s enterprise AI platform to help manage parts, suppliers and manufacturing operations. The deployment brings Nvidia’s Nemotron open models into Palantir Foundry and its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), where they are grounded in
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for financial services with data
OpenAI launched a finance-focused version of ChatGPT for financial institutions, bringing financial datasets, modelling tools and enterprise security features into one platform.Called ChatGPT for Financial Services, the product is initially aimed at investment banking and equity research teams. OpenAI said its work with financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and Evercore helped it identify the
Developing El Niño phase 2026: ISRO links event to Pacific marine decline
Satellite observations by Isro show a decline in marine productivity across parts of the tropical Pacific as an El Niño event develops, with changes in ocean-surface winds coinciding with a fall in chlorophyll-a, a key indicator of microscopic marine life.The observations were made by Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) using data from the Ocean
Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents, according to a threat intelligence report the company published on Thursday. “The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and