Tag: Artificial Intelligence

• Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

  Bukele bets on Google to build “world's best health system” as medical sector decries layoffs

  

  El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday in a national broadcast the launch of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that incorporates artificial intelligence based on the Gemini model to detect, diagnose and monitor patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney conditions.

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• Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 13:45 UTC

  Uruguayan faculty warns students score top grades with AI's help

  

  Teachers at the University of the Republic's (Udelar) School of Psychology in Montevideo raised concerns about students using AI tools, like ChatGPT, in virtual tests, achieving perfect scores in just three minutes. In addition, over 75% of correct answers were recorded when compared to in-person exams.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:15 UTC

  Falklands present at BOTs and UK Speakers’ conference on using AI in Legislatures

  

  Hosted by the Speaker of the UK House of Commons, Honorable Sir Lindsay Hoyle, MP, the 4th Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) took place in London from May 13 to 16, 2025.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 07:48 UTC

  UK to boost R&D in several areas with long term (over 10-year) funding to attract private investment

  

  British Science Minister Lord Vallance unveiled on Monday a more robust R&D criteria policy exploring innovation in areas as diverse as human health and cutting-edge computing, but particularly with a much-needed long-term certainty.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

  

  Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

• Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Council of Europe adopts first international treaty on artificial intelligence

  

  The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring the respect of human rights, the rule of law and democracy legal standards in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 14:12 UTC

  Using a new AI tool to track the life cycle of icebergs in Antarctica

  

  Researchers are using a new AI tool to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean. This is the first step towards scientists being able to track the complete life cycle of most icebergs across Antarctica from satellite data. The study published in the journal Remote Sensing of the Environment points out a report from the British Antarctic Survey.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 21:06 UTC

  AI becomes Collins publisher Word of the Year 2023

  

  The contraction of artificial intelligence — AI — has been named as Collins' Word of the Year for 2023, the dictionary publisher announced this week.
  “Considered to be the next great technological revolution, AI has seen rapid development and has been much talked about in 2023,” a blog post from the publisher said.

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Biden, Sunak sign “Atlantic Declaration” to address new technologies

  

  US President Joseph Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday renewed the economic alliance between the two countries by adapting it to the current world's transformations such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the climate crisis by signing the so-called Atlantic Declaration. Both leaders met at the White House to also discuss the war in Ukraine and the global economy.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  IMF fears labor market shock due to AI

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath Tuesday called for global rules to avoid the high social costs of massive job losses from the use of artificial intelligence, it was reported. “When it comes to AI, we need more than new rules,” she stressed.