#Artificial Intelligence

#Artificial Intelligence

Email marketing should seemingly be obsolete. The first "email," after all, occurred in October 1971, nearly 55 years ago. Surely, social media platforms, text messaging, and various applications such as WhatsApp and Discord could have supplanted it. And let's not forget the grim industry concerns when Gmail introduced the "Promotions" tab in 2013. Today, AI inbox summaries are the latest marketing threat.

The so-called democratic backsliding isn't the future: it's the present. This is what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has laid bare in its annual report, released this month. The compilation of human rights violations confirms that we're witnessing the collapse of the global order that was meticulously crafted over decades, amid the apparent passivity of many of its defenders. The new executive director of HRW, 52-year-old Philippe Bolopion,

The west London club have been without a long-term shirt sponsor since their lucrative agreement with mobile phone company Three ended in 2023. IFS' agreement with Chelsea will see their logo feature on the front of the men's and women's teams' kits with immediate effect, meaning Liam Rosenior's side will wear the new shirts for their Premier League match against Burnley on Saturday and Sonia Bompastor's team will do the same against Manchester United in Sunday's Women's FA Cup clash.

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.

The tech giant was granted a patent in December that would allow it to simulate a user via artificial intelligence when he or she is absent from the social network for extended periods, including, "for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased."

Time pressure, limited information, confusion, fatigue, and mortality salience combine to set the stage for decision-making errors, sometimes with grave consequences. An example is the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by a missile launched by the USS Vincennes in 1988, resulting in the death of 290 passengers and crew. In a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran, the captain of the Vincennes misidentified the airliner as an incoming hostile aircraft and ordered his crew to shoot it down.

U.S. financial markets ended the week on a cautious note as investors weighed strong employment data against growing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on traditional business models. Major stock indexes declined, led by technology-heavy shares, reflecting worries that rapid AI developments may disrupt established industries and earnings outlooks. The Nasdaq Composite recorded the steepest losses, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average also finished lower. Value-oriented stocks continued to outperform growth stocks, extending a trend that has persisted for several weeks.

The 62nd Munich Security Conference opened on 13 February 2026 in Munich, Germany, and this year's gathering feels different from past editions. For decades, Munich was about jets, troops, and treaties. Today, cyber and AI are no longer peripheral; they are part of the architecture of security itself. Cyber risks, digital infrastructure, and emerging technologies like AI now sit alongside tanks and treaties on the agenda as European leaders try to make sense of a world where digital threats and geopolitical tensions are deeply intertwined.

The South Korean tech giant confirmed Tuesday that Galaxy Unpacked 2026 will take place Feb. 25 in San Francisco, where the company is expected to unveil its Galaxy S26 series. The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) and will stream live on Samsung.com, YouTube, and the company's newsroom. This year's Unpacked arrives notably later than Samsung's typical January timeline for Galaxy S launches. The company hasn't publicly explained the delay, though industry whispers point to behind-the-scenes reshuffling.