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Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created

UNITED NATIONS, September 24, 2026 (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” Both said the countries of the world, through the U.N. Security Council, where

An OpenAI agent hacked Medicare. Will anyone be held responsible?

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Melbourne, Sep 24 (Conversation) Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the hack overnight while in New York to advocate for tighter international regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems at the United Nations. The government is still working out exactly what happened, with a newly announced taskforce set to investigate further. Early reports indicate OpenAI’s agent had been tasked with researching public medical data when it broke into

CMV infection can pass from mother to baby during pregnancy. Here’s how to prevent it

Sydney, Sep 24 (Conversation) Pregnant women are routinely advised to avoid certain soft cheeses and take care when handling cat litter due to the risk of harmful infections. Far fewer are told not to share food, drinks or utensils with young children, and to wash their hands after changing nappies or wiping noses. Yet these simple precautions can reduce infection from a virus called cytomegalovirus, or CMV. CMV is the most common infection passed from mother to baby during pregnancy and is a preventable cause of childhood disability. Early testing and targeted education for CMV-negative women has been shown to

‘CEC Gyanesh Kumar must go, SIR exercise must be halted,’ says Stalin

Chennai, Sep 23 (PTI) DMK president M K Stalin on Wednesday said CEC Gyanesh Kumar must resign from his post and claimed that he has no right to continue in office. Demanding that the SIR exercise be halted, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister sought a fair probe, “into everything that transpired within the EC and those responsible should be held accountable.” Stalin, in a statement, said that the “explosive findings,” published by Indian Express backed by evidence, had cast “serious doubts” over the results of every Assembly election held after the SIR exercise. He said his party had all

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