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Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn’t want to cede edge to China

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DUBLIN, September 14, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology. While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify, though industry pioneers have raised such concerns. “We can put guardrails, we can do this and

New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate

LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2026 (AP) — New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting

Data from more than 600 people shows resting heart rates have their own secret rhythm

Melbourne, September 14, 2026 (Conversation) You’re likely familiar with the idea of a circadian rhythm – your body’s 24-hour cycle that governs sleep and wakefulness. It turns out that resting heart rate also follows mysterious, long rhythms that run independently of the outside world. Resting heart rate is measured by how many beats per minute your heart makes while you’re calm and inactive. This measure is linked to stress, fatigue and fitness. Our new study, published in EBioMedicine, looked at years of smartwatch data from hundreds of young adults, and found that for 70% of the participants, their resting heart

Mayawati quells ‘rumours’ about her health, questions Akash Anand’s role

Lucknow, Sep 13 (PTI) BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday hit out again at her nephew Akash Anand, whom she recently expelled from the party for the third time, accusing him indirectly of being part of a campaign spreading “rumours” that she was unwell. “It appears that those expelled from the party have, over the last couple of days, tried to create an impression that ‘Behen ji’ is very ill and because of which she has been communicating even major issues through X posts,” she said while reading out her message before reporters in Lucknow on Sunday. Alleging that her nephew

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