UK AI job ads up 51% to 100,000, but London dominates, Accenture says
Accenture counts about 100,000 UK AI vacancies in six months, up 51%, with London listing six times as many as Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester.
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Ex-UKRI chief Ottoline Leyser warns against AI in funding decisions
Ottoline Leyser says a fully objective grant assessment is 'a non-starter' as UKRI trials AI scoring and academics warn of an arms race in university sifting.
Google study finds AI saves scientists hours, then costs some back
A survey of 600-plus UK and US scientists found AI saves 6.9 hours a week on average, but checking its output eats a large part of that gain for many of them.
AI reads a standard ECG for heart disease in two seconds
A British Heart Foundation-funded tool pulls heart failure and valve disease signals out of routine ECGs, potentially triaging patients off long scan waiting lists.
First AI-designed viruses land with no governance to match
A Stanford team used genome language models to build working bacteriophages, and researchers warn the oversight framework for the technique does not yet exist.
AI security patches work one time in four, research finds
1Password researchers generated 6,080 patches with frontier models and found half failed to close an exploit path, with some introducing new ones.
AI-edited wildlife photos corrupt citizen science records
Scientists warn in Nature that AI-enhanced bird photographs are contaminating databases such as iNaturalist that researchers use to track species ranges.
Anthropic launches Claude Science workbench for researchers
Anthropic's new Claude Science app pulls fragmented research tools into one environment, generating reproducible figures and managing compute for scientists.
Only 7% of euro-zone firms use AI intensively, ECB finds
An ECB survey of 5,000 firms finds over 70% use AI but just 7% use it intensively, with the keenest adopters small, young and services-focused.
EEF opens £2.5m fund to study AI's effect on learning
The Education Endowment Foundation is funding research into whether tools like ChatGPT help pupils learn or erode memory and engagement, with findings due in 2027.
Cambridge trials 'world-first' AI-designed vaccine
Cambridge researchers have trialled in humans a vaccine whose key component was designed entirely by AI, aiming to protect against whole families of coronaviruses.
Anthropic launches policy research arm with four-pillar agenda
The Anthropic Institute will publish research on economic diffusion, threats and resilience, AI systems in the wild and AI-driven R&D from inside the frontier lab.
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? New research maps the risks
GovAI and Brookings study finds 6.1 million clerical workers are both highly exposed to AI and least able to adapt. Women hold 86% of the most vulnerable roles.
AI-Induced Psychosis: How Chatbots Can Sustain Delusions, Study Explains
A University of Exeter study argues that conversational AI can actively sustain and grow users' false beliefs by acting as both a cognitive tool and a validating companion.
GPT-5 Follows the Law Better Than Human Judges, Study Finds
University of Chicago researchers found GPT-5 applied the legally correct outcome in 100% of test cases, compared to 52% for human federal judges.
Researchers Warn Open-Source AI Models Vulnerable to Criminal Misuse
Joint SentinelOne and Censys research reveals thousands of open-source LLM deployments operating without guardrails, creating security risks for spam, phishing and disinformation.
GPT-5 Helps Mathematician Solve 40-Year-Old Optimisation Problem
UCLA professor Ernest Ryu used GPT-5 to crack a fundamental question about algorithm stability that had puzzled researchers for decades.
AI Vision Models Transform Traffic Safety Through Video Analysis
NYU researchers develop SeeUnsafe system combining language and vision AI to automatically identify collisions and near-misses in traffic camera footage.
AI Tools Undermining Hiring Meritocracy Through Commitment Signal Collapse
Research reveals AI-generated applications and job postings destroying signalling mechanisms in recruitment, making hiring less meritocratic whilst increasing time waste for all parties.
Five-Minute Training Improves AI-Generated Face Detection by 20 Percentage Points
University of Reading research shows brief training on rendering errors boosts fake face identification from 31% to 51% accuracy for typical observers.
UK Announces £55 Billion R&D Investment Through 2029/2030
Government commits largest-ever R&D funding package, with each £1 investment generating £8 net economic benefit and attracting £2 private sector funding.
AI Chatbots Struggle with Persian Social Etiquette, Study Reveals
Research shows mainstream AI models fail to understand Persian taarof culture, correctly navigating social rituals only 34-42% of the time.