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Nature: A forthcoming policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will target - and at least temporarily stop -- funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States, threatening thousands of global-health projects and international collaborations on topics such as emerging infectious diseases and cancer. The NIH, the world's largest funder of biomedical research, plans to release the policy in the next week. Some agency staff members have already been instructed to hold funds for foreign institutions that are part of both new research grants and grants coming up for renewal, according to multiple agency employees who spoke to Nature under the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press.

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Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine

Some smart cookies have found that when AI models face a conflict between telling the truth or accomplishing a specific goal, they lie more than 50 percent of the time.…

At around 25 hectares it could fit about 35 football pitches in the sports park

An unhappy tourist complained to Metropolitan Police on the weekend of April 12-13 after being charged nearly a grand for two packets of sweets at an Oxford street store.

In a move that's sure to thrill soap fans, Robert Sugden is reportedly returning to the village in a storyline packed with emotional tension and family drama.

A congressional briefing is underway, as scientists say they need a larger role in the investigation into UFOs and other strange phenomena the government has been keeping secret.

PC Mark Ling, 38, contacted a dozen girls under the age of 16 after he downloaded Snapchat and TikTok on his child's device in August last year.

Will the personal assistant shop for groceries? Or get hijacked by a teen?

RSAC  If Amazon's Alexa+ works as intended, it could show how an AI assistant helps with everyday tasks like making dinner reservations or arranging an oven repair. Or things could go terribly wrong: it might turn on the oven and turn dinner plans into a house fire.…

Wall Street has been looking for some good news, and Microsoft came through with its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2025 as its cloud business – and to be specific, its non-AI cloud business – grew much more strongly than expected. …

AI Steady, Cloud Accelerating Gives Microsoft A Big Datacenter Boost was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The stash released by Russia's FSB security service includes the declassified statements of the führer's valet, Heinz Linge who said a 'deluded' Hitler killed himself to avoid being captured.

Daily Mail can reveal that for her mum's latest tour Blue Ivy, 13, spent hours a day rehearsing for nearly six months with choreographer to the stars, Amari Marshall, all while juggling school.

Matt Wrack, general secretary of the NASUWT, claimed the outcry over his post was due to a 'hatchet job' by the media and the Tories.

Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane was pictured stepping out with actress Priya Jain in Los Angeles on Wednesday, weeks after revealing his shocking ALS diagnosis. 

A decade ago Calvin Harris was living the Hollywood dream.

Chinese scientists have achieved a significant nuclear breakthrough by successfully refueling a thorium-based reactor while it remains operational, according to reports from Chinese state media. The experimental 2-megawatt thermal reactor, which came online in June 2024, represents the revival of technology originally developed and abandoned by the United States in the mid-20th century. The milestone was revealed during a closed meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where project leaders shared results demonstrating the reactor's ability to be refueled without shutdown -- a capability conventional uranium reactors lack. Though small compared to MIT's 6-megawatt research reactor, this achievement shows China's accelerating nuclear ambitions. The country has surpassed France in nuclear generation and recently approved 10 new reactors worth over $27 billion in investment. This thorium reactor joins other revived nuclear concepts, including molten-salt cooling systems and high-temperature gas reactors, as developers look to the past for solutions to advance nuclear energy's future.

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The band, who have been accused of glorifying the IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah, had a Land Rover painted in the livery of the PSNI for pictures at the Sundance Film Festival in the US.

Police have arrested seven people, including two teenagers

Josh Lawrence came through Surrey's academy and represented the second XI during his time at the club. Surrey confirmed his death in a statement on Wednesday.

The colossal criminal enterprise was masterminded by Christopher Templeman, 38, and 39-year-old Lisa Harper from a rented shipping container in Cumbria.

Peter Levy was heading up his regular morning segment Leave It To Levy on BBC Look North this morning when the amusing moment happened.