Michael Visker, MD, a Pediatrician with Alewife Brook Community Pediatrics

Four start-ups addressing AI-driven flight shopping, AI search optimisation, airline ancillaries, and airport boarding processes have been selected to compete in the World Aviation Festival’s annual Start-up Competition next week. The live final takes place on Tuesday 13 October at FIL Lisbon, where each company will pitch its solution to a panel of industry leaders and investors. Hosted by Irra Ariella Khi, Co-Founder and CEO of Zamna, the competition gives early-stage disruptors a platform to showcase their innovations to more than 4,500 senior executives across aviation and travel.

Operators of hotels, resorts, theme parks, and cruises succeed by making their customers feel welcome, looked-after, and alive. It’s therefore understandable that they are often cautious about adopting technology that might make their customer experience less human. When it comes to AI adoption, however, there’s a real danger that operators will suffer strategic damage if they don’t move fast enough.

In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows. The ecosystem around it fell short. Earlier this year, our team at OX Security,  traced critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic's MCP

India should focus on expanding the use of existing artificial intelligence applications across the economy and selectively invest in frontier AI capabilities instead of making broad investments in developing advanced models from scratch, Vincent Belinga, Senior Economist at the World Bank, told ANI in an exclusive conversation.

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India among top 10 emerging markets in AI readiness; private AI investment triples: World Bank

Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app.

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

The recipients of the six awards in science, literature, economics and peace work are being announced this week.

Francis Halzen receives the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pivotal contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the identification of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, leveraging South Pole ice to monitor cosmic phenomena.

It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.

Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward. Reports about supply chain compromises are still accepted, and reports filed before October 1 are